Lilium has made its first successful flight of its Lilium Jet which is an electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle.
The Lilium Jet can be seen in action in the video below, it is 100 percent electric and has a range of around 300 km.
Lilium is now developing a larger, five-seater version of the Jet, designed for on-demand air taxi and ride- sharing services.
Celebrating the landmark moment, Lilium co-founder and CEO Daniel Wiegand said: “Seeing the Lilium Jet take to the sky and performing sophisticated maneuvers with apparent ease is testament to the skill and perseverance of our amazing team. We have solved some of the toughest engineering challenges in aviation to get to this point.
“The successful test flight programme shows that our ground-breaking technical design works exactly as we envisioned. We can now turn our focus to designing the five seater production aircraft.
You can find out more details about the Lilium Jet at the link below, it certainly looks impressive from the video.
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