Lilium (LILM) receives firm order from UrbanLink to put 20 eVTOL jets into service in Florida
Lilium (LILM) receives firm order from UrbanLink to put 20 eVTOL jets into service in Florida
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) developer Lilium has announced a new partnership with advanced air mobility (AAM) operator UrbanLink...
The us will literally do anything but build better public transportation.
Cue DeSantis banning this for being woke.
I'm absolutely positive, if anyone can turn this into a horrible disaster....it's definitely Florida....
Adding new and complicated aircraft to an industry of already overwhelmed and under trained private pilots?
This can only go the Florida way: with some dude, blasted on meth and bud light slamming one of these bad boys into the side of a resort.
Electric jets? Is that a thing? How do they work?
Jet is just marketing speak here. It's a bunch of ducted fans.
If it's not generating compression to power itself it's not a jet engine, it's just sparkling ducted fans.
Like electric model airplanes and drones, but larger. Battery energy density is not high enough (yet) to electrify long-haul jumbo jets, but we're beginning to see the electrification of small short-range aircraft.
I listened to a podcast about these electric puddle jumpers and how they actually could make a huge dent in aviation CO2.
Why so many small propellers instead of a few big ones?
Bigger propeller is less noise
We already have helicopters. They’re loud and somewhat dangerous. This is a dumb idea that will be you guessed it, loud and dangerous.
They claim that these are less loud and less dangerous. Since this uses a shit ton of engines it means that multiple engines can fail before it loses lift. The reason why helicopters are loud as fuck is because the tips of the blades break the sound barrier. The blades in these engines do not go faster than the speed of sound. And unlike a helicopter this eVTOL has wings so when it is in flight the rotors don’t need to spin as fast as during takeoff so the engines make less noise.