Lilium have just raised $90 million to continue development of the lilium jet.
70 staff, recent senior hires from Airbus, Tesla and Gett, co-founders of Twitter and Skype on board.
The team continue to look impressive on paper and social media
, but endurance v payload yet to be well defined, other than one hour endurance at 300kph mentioned in the press release.
https://lilium.com/news/
"The Lilium Jet will be able to travel at up to 300 km per hour for one hour on a single charge - meaning an example 19 km journey from Manhattan to JFK Airport could last as little as five minutes. The jet’s economy and efficiency means flights are predicted to cost less than the same journey in a normal road taxi."
Here is one way to increase payload and range
https://www.facebook.com/CivilWork/v...2061358200167/
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