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a successful transition from vertical flight (liftoff) to horizontal flight.The company is also announcing the completion of its first
manufacturing facility and plans for a much larger second factory in preparation for a 2025 commercial launch.In the flight footage
(embedded below), the five-seater all-electric Lilium Jet can be seen taking off and then transitioning to horizontal flight, where it
operating emissions and requires less than 10% of its maximum 2000 horsepower during horizontal cruise flight thanks to the lift generated
It says it is still on track to be able to complete journeys of up to 300 kilometre in one hour and on a single charge.In a call with Remo
Specifically, he explained that this means Lilium will be able to operate an air taxi service that connects cities and country regions,
as one example of an ecosystem, where the main hubs are reachable within a 300 kilometre range, he says we could imagine services between
compared to much larger and more capital intensive infrastructure projects
make one investment into a pad the size of a football field and be connected to all of these other 10 different pads in the country
Of course, we cannot go and build all around the world all of these landing sites, but where we will come in is to work with these cities to
be tax payer-funded or public money, but private companies will also be courted
These could be shopping malls that want additional footfall or large businesses that want their business parks to be connected in different
headquarters in Southern Germany
It will soon be complemented by a second, much larger, facility which is already under construction at the same site
