Air Taxi Wisk Aero & Boeing Big Money
Boeing Invests a Further $450 Million in Wisk Aero Source: Wisk Aero Autonomous Air Taxi Travel Silicon Valley, California-based air taxi startup Wisk Aero has raised $450 million from Boeing to build an air taxi flee, capable of 10 million flights per year. Wisk has developed an electric, vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle that is capable of autonomous, pilot-less flying and can carry 2 passengers. Wisk Aero is owned by Boeing and Google co-founder Larry Page's flying car company Kitty Hawk. There are more than a dozen, major flying car companies globally. But what distinguishes Wisk is its focus on autonomous flying vehicles. The company says that autonomous functionality is being built into every aspect of the design and developme...