Tag Archives: Flying

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Texas begins flying migrants from southern border to Chicago. The 1st plane carried over 120 people  Yahoo News Source link

Two days, two drone delays in the Seattle area. The Seattle Seahawks’ matchup with the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday was briefly suspended in the fourth quarter after a drone appeared near Lumen Field. The game was only suspended for about eight minutes or so while security cleared the field before play resumed. It’s unclear who was operating the drone, though it is an FAA violation in Seattle to fly a drone near an NFL or MLB stadium during a game, per Fox 8’s P.J. Ziegler. The drone incident… Source link

Larry Page Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google co-founder Larry Page’s flying car startup Kittyhawk is winding down, the company announced Wednesday. “We’re still working on the details of what’s next,” the company wrote in a LinkedIn post. Kittyhawk was founded as Zee.Aero in 2010 when Page recruited Sebastian Thrun, who had worked on self-driving cars and other experimental projects at Google, to create electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The company unveiled a demonstration… Source link

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will head to Moscow in the near future to participate in talks to try and secure the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, according to ABC News. Richardson is expected to travel to Russia in the next couple of weeks, an anonymous source told ABC News. It’s unclear when that will take place, or who Richardson will meet with specifically when he’s there. “What I can say (and is publicly known) is both the Whelan and… Source link

The U.S. government can’t explain 143 of the 144 cases of unidentified flying objects reported by military planes, according to a highly anticipated intelligence report released Friday. That report, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was meant to shed light on the mystery of those dozens of flying objects, spotted from 2004 to 2021, but instead said it didn’t have adequate data to put all but one of them into a category. That one UAP — shorthand for… Source link

While Tesla is laser focused on selling Chinese consumers more Model 3s, one of its chief rivals in the country Xpeng (XPEV) is already planning for a future of electric flying cars. And not only planning for it, putting its money where its mind is at. This week at the Shanghai Auto Show, Xpeng showed off its electric Heitech flying vehicle. It looks one part snowmobile, one part futuristic helicopter. The vehicle seats one person.  Xpeng Vice Chairman and President Brian Gu tells Yahoo… Source link

TipRanks The Bottom Is in for These 2 Stocks? Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Today, we’re looking at two small-cap biotech firms whose stocks have struck a rut. Each company has hit a recent clinical setback that sent the share price falling, erasing previous gains and sending it back down to low levels. Setbacks of this sort are not uncommon in the biotech industry, and in fact highlight the risk and speculative nature of the industry. So what should investors do, when a stock collapses? Is this a… Source link

(Bloomberg Opinion) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Bloomberg Opinion will be running a series of features by our columnists that consider the long-term consequences of the crisis. This column is part of a package on the future of transportation.  Last month, my wife and I planned our first holiday in six months. It was a hectic experience. Borders between most Australian states had been closed since the start of the coronavirus lockdown. We’d been hoping to fly three hours to… Source link