Flying Cars!

You finally got your flying cars, and Stephen Colbert says they suck

If you are reading this you are likely a person who consumes a lot of news on the internet. So you may well have read about, or heard about, the fact that Kitty Hawk, a Larry Page-backed flying car company, has started showing off its flying car.

Flying cars! We finally have flying cars! Or, at least, a thing that flies.

Kitty Hawk’s unveil came via a New York Times story a week ago, which makes it ancient history for people who inhale news on the internet.

But lots of other people don’t hoover up every bit news on the internet in real time, which means that talk show hosts like Stephen Colbert can riff on it many days later and it will still be news to them. And, more important, funny.

Here’s the official Kitty Hawk promotional video, released in conjunction with the Times story last week:

ABOUT KITTY HAWK

        Our mission is to make the dream of personal flight a reality. We believe when everyone has access to personal flight, a new, limitless world of opportunity will open up to them. At Kitty Hawk, we engineer, design and build safe, fun, easy-to-fly aircraft.

ABOUT THE FLYER

        The Kitty Hawk Flyer is a new, all-electric aircraft. It is safe, tested and legal to operate in the United States in uncongested areas under the Ultralight category of FAA regulations. We’ve designed our first version specifically to fly over water. You don’t need a pilot’s license and you’ll learn to fly it in minutes. We publicly revealed the working prototype in April 2017. The official Flyer will be available by the end of the year