Originally Posted by
Petit-Lion
My take-away is: 9 times more power to hover than to cruise. A conventional helicopter is close to 1:1. It starts to worsen with tiltrotors. Then there are those oversized multicopter drones. Did Lilium chose the worst way to hover?
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/q...-when-hovering
i don't think there is a helicopter that burns same fuel in hover as fwd flight ,I am sure ratio is much better than 9 to 1 though
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