New all electric Plane "Lilium Jet" made its Maiden Flight

[uzn]

Bavarian Company Lilium had the Maiden Flight of their first Prototyp on the 20th of April. It reaches 300 km/h and can lift off and land vertically without chopping several Persons into pieces with any Rotorblades. Up till 5 People can be flown.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohig71bwRUE
Testflight Picture of Prototyp
https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/lilium-jet-hover-close-up-e1492711053393.png?w=1600&h=1000

Renderings of the final Version:
https://lilium.com/images/press/resources/lilium-jet-flying.jpg

https://lilium.com/images/press/resources/lilium-jet-white-side.jpg

https://lilium.com/images/press/resources/lilium-jet-white-front-diagonal-with-gear.jpg

https://lilium.com/

[Did You See Them]

The next 20 years will be very interesting in public transportation.

[joeecho]

Futuristic looking.

With battery powered this and that coming on the scene fairly rapid, effective battery recycling will be essential. The world would be simply trading one problem for another if not.

[Hym]

That is a cool concept come to life. Very little technical data on their website, which only for proprietary reasons do I understand. I would like to know even the basic output of the electric battery system and it's e.m. field, because manufacturers, all included, to this day do not openly talk about the hazards to the human body caused by such interactions.....and it is a very basic bio-electric, bio-chemical, consideration that has yet to be addressed. Basic science folks. Get out your meters and measure some of the spaces you live in, get in and work around.

It would be good to see the very limited air space use if there are early warning and interspatial telemetry guidance, interactive, systems used in all of their aircraft. If the inventors and investors are half smart they will include an advanced, minimal, emergency shute system in case of power failure. Even though it seems they have done the correct things by supposedly including redundant backup power and navigation controls, sometimes simplified safety systems make all of the difference in testing and commercial flight. They say the system would survive in a full power loss situation, a la the auto-rotation capacities of 'some' helicopters. I'd like to see even the computer simulation of that claim.

Makes you remember/think of anti-gravity, gravity-neutral, gravity-minus, gravity-plus craft in a big way.

[Joe Akulis]

Hope it has a built-in drone avoidance system. :-)

[Basho]

Amazing!

Cant even imagine what kind of amazing tech we can collectively conceive, without the oversight & interference of the gatekeepers.

[KiwiElf]

Amazing!

Cant even imagine what kind of amazing tech we can collectively conceive, without the oversight & interference of the gatekeepers.

Glad you asked :) (uzn, you just beat me to posting the "Lilium Jet" as part of a bigger "Future Vehicles" topic) ;) - so here are some other "amazing vehicles" I was going to post with that as well - some are real and others just in the concept stage

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5 Flying Cars

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8 Most Amazing Future Aircrafts & Helicopters

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[joeecho]

11 Most Amazing Future Vehicles

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The first concept in this video reminded me of another future concept.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohcwksrvDOg

[TargeT]

The next 20 years will be very interesting in public transportation.

next 5 years....

;)

Remember: tech advances nearly exponentially, definitely not linearly

[joeecho]

The next 20 years will be very interesting in public transportation.

next 5 years....

;)

Remember: tech advances nearly exponentially, definitely not linearly

Leading theoretically to a singularity. :focus:

[Red Skywalker]

Hope it has a built-in drone avoidance system. :-)

Hope so too. My drone is very expensive.:p

[Justplain]

Cant wait till we get cheap antigravity :-)