Seems there is lots of money for this project: https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospa...143112.article

Valued at $3B+ under this deal's terms.

Are they actually flying it?

Not to my knowledge, this is all 'on the come'. As with many others, they are selling a story,
The flood of money currently being pumped out by the authorities is fueling this and other speculations in aerospace.as well as elsewhere.

Foolish timing to make an announcement of futuristic product.

Mjb

5 years after starting this thread, Photographs and video of the full size interior of the 7 seater Lilium posted on Lilium's Facebook page.

https://fb.watch/v/1WHujFth4/
A striking interior, with fabulously large windows and an illuminated ceiling.

Is the canard a significant factor in pilot visibility?

If only it wasn't a mock-up

Mjb

Interesting to note that things that are missing in the interior:

• Air Conditioning Vents
• Reading Lights
• Headset jacks
• Escape Path Lighting
• Fire Extinguishers
• Emergency Exits
• Seatbelts

Might be a little tricky to certify without these. They also claim to have a cruise altitude of 10,000 ft... in an unpressurised cabin.

This is what happens when you let the designers in without the engineers.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ff9c2a63bd.jpg

This is Lilium in a nutshell

The performance claims are made up.
The time line for entry into service is made up.
The physics are made up

Just imagine! An 'illuminated cieling'!

Oh! The innovation!

I can't wait...

The electricity to power the illuminated ceiling could perhaps be used to power the rotors?

And look at all those screaming little turbine blades just outside the window, at ear level. Lovely.

Like the crapper on an F-28 or DC-9

By the time they get up there, it will be time to descend anyway, so the pax won't have time to get hypoxic.

Lillium just announced on video in Facebook page, they will ​launch product with piloted flights in 2024.Former CFO of autonomous car tech Cruise is CFO.
Former CEO of Airbus will be chairman.
They plan to launch on NASDAQ, valued at $3B!
"Lilium’s aircraft will have 30x fewer components than a commercial airliner and is designed for ease of manufacturability and scalability. Lilium applies automotive-style design for manufacturing methods and is designing for fully automated high-quality production of its engines, actuators and batteries"

Has anyone seen a project where all facets of such a disruptive new business, are in place before the product is proven?

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By "30x fewer" do they mean 1/30th of the number? Pretty easy for a piddly 6-seater to have 1/30th the components of a B787. Take 180 seats, divide by 6, you get 30. Simples!

Hope they aren't relying on Taiwan for any computer chips, they might not be available when China decides to move in next year.

Now I know why the crew dims the cabin light during takeoff and landing.

wait wait… do you mean it has to be certified??? 😂

This is the pilot controls:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b0d2072ef0.png

Seems to be a Germany specific issue, every dodgy promotion harvests there, thanks to demonstrably incompetent regulators. Look up Wirecard as the most recent example.

Free Flights!
 

That is pure gold!

They had cargo lifter we had Airlander. But they have Volocopter as well.