Google co-founder Larry Page funded according to a media report from his own pocket to develop flying cars. The 43-year-old had stuck since 2010 more than 100 million dollars in the company Zee.Aero that working on such aircraft, according to a report by the magazine “Bloomberg Businessweek”. The leaf bases its information from ten individuals with allegedly extensive knowledge about the company. On the website of Zee.Aero states, is working on a “revolutionary form of transport”.
Page joined last year from the executive chair at Google to the top of the new group holding alphabet. His fortune is estimated at more than 35 billion dollars.According to the report attached particular importance to ensuring that its support remains secret at Zee.Aero Page. The company occupy approximately 150 employees and test his prototypes on a small airfield in Silicon Valley. The idea is an electric two-seater that could off and land vertically. Zee.Aero have among other former employees of the US space agency Nasa and the aircraft manufacturer Boeing set.
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In addition, have Page last year in another company named Kitty Hawk invested which pursues a different concept of flying cars. Kitty Hawk is the city in which the Wright brothers in 1903, the first motorized flight succeeded. From records of Kitty Hawk from 2015 would indicate that the chief developer of the first self-driving cars Google, Sebastian Thrun, a leading role in the company had.
Neither Thrun nor Page wanted to comment on the report of “Bloomberg Business Week”.
Worldwide, there are several projects to build flying cars, including the Aero mobile from Slovakia. Other companies such as e-volo from Karlsruhe or Ehang from China develop a kind of giant drone could carry people.
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