If you told me a company best known for electric scooters had spent the last five years developing a personal aircraft inspired by one of the Soviet Union's weirdest Cold War experiments, I'd assume somebody got lost on the way to a startup pitch meeting. Yet that's exactly what happened.
Chinese mobility company Navee recently unveiled the WaveFly 5X, a wing-in-ground effect craft designed to skim above the water like a modern-day ekranoplan. The machine itself is fascinating. But the company behind it might be even more interesting.
