After years of rumours, Google co-founder Larry Page has finally unveiled his flying car - and the news is a bit of a shock.
Those imaging Page was fine tuning a futuristic flying family vehicle for the past few years will be in for a surprise with the revelation that the Kitty Hawk looks like the hybrid of a drone and a jet ski and could have the worst features of both.
For now you can forget about those dreamings of beating the morning rush hour and prepare for yet another noisy device to attack the serenity of a day on the water. The driver, or pilot, sits on what is similar to a jet ski seat on top of a grid of netting that, presumably, protects the pilot from injuring themselves on the four-spinning propellers keeping the unit above the ground.
Page, in a statement to The New York Times, said "We've all had dreams of flying effortlessly. I'm excited that one day very soon I'll be able to climb onto my Kitty Hawk Flyer for a quick and easy personal flight."
This first version of the Kitty Hawk, that Page hopes might be available by the end of a year, is a one-person vehicle that can only be flown over freshwater and in uncongested areas - so no buzzing people down a crowded beach and, also, no flying around on the school run or down to the shops for milk.
