It takes a lot to frighten Zee. The 35-year-old father of two rarely gets flustered: not when he first set out on the 4,000-mile journey from his family home in Pakistan to the UK more than a decade ago; not during the years he spent struggling for survival on the fringes of Britain's formal economy; not when the Home Office threatened to deport him, plunging his young family into uncertainty. But the cold, foggy, final hours of 24 January this year – they felt different. "My heart was pounding," Zee remembers. That was the night Zee and his colleagues at Amazon's BHX4 warehouse in Coventry decided to make history, abandoning their workstations and launching an unprecedented stoppage to demand higher wages. They had walked out before, in a spontaneous, ad hoc protest. But this was different: a carefully planned and legal effort, the likes of which Amazon UK had never faced. Standing in their way at the exit gates was a line of senior managers who had the power to make or break each worker's future, staring down anyone who might dare to pass. "As midnight struck, I kept catching other people's eyes: do we go, or do we stay?" Zee recalls. "We didn't know what would happen if we crossed that threshold. But we did know that somebody, somewhere had to be the first to try."

While he may be better known as a self driving car enthusiast, a new video has given a glimpse of Google co-founder Larry Page's secretive self flying car project. Earlier this year it was revealed Page appeared to be privately investing in two separate flying car firms, providing them with 100m. Now, of of the prototype craft has been spotted at a remote airfield in California - and locals say they have even seen it hovering above the ground. The zee.aero prototype has been spotted at the firm's secretive test lab in Hollister, and was spotted because of its strange shape and ability to hover. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, he has personally provided 70 million ( 100 million) to two startups developing the technology, and now one of the first prototypes has been spotted. He has reportedly been funding Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk, two rival companies based in California's Silicon Valley.

Imagine, a family vehicle that sounds like 16 lawnmowers. Flying cars are a forever icon of the future. Personal aircraft, with the ease and convenience of home automobiles, and without any of the downsides of airplanes or helicopters, have so far proven if not impossible then impractical, despite decades of attempts. But Google cofounder Larry Page isn't about to let all that history get in his way. The first, founded in 2010, is Zee.Aero.

Larry Page, the billionaire co-founder of Google, is secretly backing a pair of startups that are working on flying cars, according to a report. Since 2010, Page has poured more than 100 million into Zee.Aero, a company that lately has been testing two flying-car prototypes at an airport hangar in Hollister, Calif., Bloomberg said Thursday, citing sources. Since last year, Page also has been funding another flying-car startup called Kitty Hawk -- and has cast it as a rival to Zee.Aero as he stages a top-secret race to develop a new class of vehicles that can soar above traffic jams and sidestep the hassles of the airport, Bloomberg said. "Page has drawn a line separating his two flying-car teams," the report said. "It's common for the Zee.Aero engineers to speculate over lunch about what their Kitty Hawk counterparts are up to."

Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has personally funneled over 100 million into a pair of secretive startups looking to revolutionize personal transport by developing flying cars, according to a new report from Bloomberg Businessweek. The report claims Page is backing the secretive Zee.Aero, a company that was initially set up six years ago and three years later, moved across the road from Google's huge headquarters in Mountain View. At the time, the company was reported to be working on a flying car -- based on a patent filing -- but little was known about Zee.Aero and who was backing it. The original patent filed by Zee.Aero for a flying car design. The report, based on information from 10 people familiar with the company's plans, including former employees, says Page initially lived in an apartment above the company's offices, but as it expanded, he had to move out.

Three years ago, Silicon Valley developed a fleeting infatuation with a startup called Zee.Aero. The company had set up shop right next to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., which was curious, because Google tightly controls most of the land in the area. Then a reporter spotted patent filings showing Zee.Aero was working on a small, all-electric plane that could take off and land vertically--a flying car. In the handful of news articles that ensued, all the startup would say was that it wasn't affiliated with Google or any other technology company. Then it stopped answering media inquiries altogether. Employees say they were even given wallet-size cards with instructions on how to deflect questions from reporters. After that, the only information that trickled out came from amateur pilots, who occasionally posted pictures of a strange-looking plane taking off from a nearby airport. Trump Says'No Reason' to Raise 1 Billion for Campaign Turns out, Zee.Aero doesn't belong to Google or its holding company, Alphabet.

Google CEO Larry Page speaks at a news conference at the Google offices in New York, Monday, May 21, 2012. It appears Alphabet CEO Larry Page isn't only interested in cars that drive themselves. According to Bloomberg, Page has been secretly funding startups specializing in flying cars. One startup in particular, called Zee.Aero, has been funded by Page since 2010, says the report. Zee.Aero, based near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., had been working on a prototype flying car capable of taking off and landing vertically.