The video shows the progress from the initial design. These things take time..

@@crimsonhawk467 this video shows hipsters smelling eachothers farts like fine wine, and fancy emotional music with inspirational quotes... absolutely no information given. Basically an instagram post...

@@Spaz12ism haha smelling each other's farts like fine wine. Classic. I'm sure they made the video for the person with the purse strings.

@@crimsonhawk467 If I had invested millions of dollars into this project and watched this video, I would be extremely disappointed with the slow progress, offended by the high school pep rally demeanor, and demand accountability on the use of the money.

@@codetech5598 it's not even your money. Someone else spent the money to do this research and make the movie.. ha. If investors are happy then why would anyone else care. It's like saying the model t Ford is crap compared to a 2019 Jeep. We are at the beginning of all this.

It uses almost the same energy during its flight from A to B. Your proposal doesn't solve the problem of battery consumption.

@@HWR71 No I agree it doesn't, but it is an step to over come increased consumption during take off and landing while improvement in battery technology is coming about.

They know they can’t expose their weaknesses to win the eVTOL race

I've seen a new video of both. Looks top notch.

It just released 6 days ago of a test flight

They are waiting for a battery technology that can make them significantly less heavy.

Look again now buddy

It doesn’t really need to though. If cost is low enough and it’s minimum twice as fast as driving end to end, I’ll be successful in many markets. The key then will be building convenient inter-city and inner-city infrastructure for these aircraft allowing for passenger ease of travel.

@@TecnamTwin a 3D elevator, going top-to-top of buildings 🤔 fasinating.

@@TecnamTwin ⚠️ God has said in the Quran: 🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 ) 🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 ) 🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 ) 🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 ) 🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 ) ⚠️ Quran

Hi C.A, thanks for the comment. Here is a video we released recently which shows hover and forward flight - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNemgLugu8DKdKs.html. Thanks again for your interest in Lilium.

Could not find any information on that.

Like when did that happen?

Thanks for the input, the initial plan was actually to do a 2-seater which you can see in the video below. However we realised the technology could scale and it would be more efficient, both sustainably and for ticket costs, to be able to take a larger amount of people. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLeDd66eu9XFeaM.html

They had already flown about a 70% scale test bed nearly 1.5 years ago. This is now full scale and likely to eventually carry a man. The engineers and their guests deserve to be excited. They also know they need to put on a little bit of a show.

or even can fly ...

@@abdulmalekwalayeh4790 The German EDF electric ducted fan maker schubler make a model that weighs 3.4kg but produces 25kg thrust. A It consumes 15kW electrically. If you got 7.1kg of LiPo batteries with an energy density of 290Whr/kg (same as a tesla)The whole thing would weigh 12.5kg, produce 12.5 kg net thrust for 8 minutes and the C8 rate. The physics of this works.

You have no idea how enormous of an engineering feat this is.

@@bilbo_gamers6417 Indeed, 36 motors and 6 battery packs for massive redundancy. It will go for full EASA and FAA certification so it will be allowed to fly over cities.

😆

Lol

The high pitch noise level this thing generates must be insane.

Maybe it isn't too bad when you're inside of it.

@@ParadoxRoyal But, it is supposed to serve as a taxi. Unless it only takes off and lands at airports, noise will be an issue.

@@codetech5598 Well, cities are already noisy. I doubt it would add much to all the racket that goes on in big cities.

@@ParadoxRoyal try to land this noise shit in our locality Alabama and our pitch forks and shotgun will talk to you. Im not joking

Progress ...

@Kable what excellent irony...

Most of the ones gushing are the people on the "flight team". The comments, not so much.

@@codetech5598 because most of trolls here have no clue what they are commenting on, but they still do it anyways.

... or even 1 meter!

Have you checked it out now? It's amazing🙏😍

By far, this is the simplest, redundant, easy to build and maintain VTOL that I ever see and my guess is that range will double in the next 5 years.

@@LosZonga that will all depend on future battery development which is bound to get better and safer. The Lilium has alot going for it, but not to be without criticism, i do think the cabin is rather small, which will not do well for many full size people. Far too many designs even in the exotic car world cater to very small, and excludes larger folks, indeed there is a market their as well. Lilium will fair well in good weather but i wonder how it will hold up in bad conditions. Also, as a business, it will require investors to have patience, because this form of low altitude air travel typical for small light aircraft, is not common for most people. The altitudes lilium will service can be both pleasant and extremely turbulent. Passengers will still have the ability to judge scale and height of their surroundings and it takes some getting use to for those affraid of heights. this is where such automated systems must shine, because as a former cessna trainee, i gota tell ya, you gota have your wits about you when flying in bad turbulence. things can get scary quick. and whatever automated system must be proactive in such situations not reactive. because if its always adjusting itself after an event, it will crash.

@@xevious2501 I bet you made a grate steam engine driver. Graphene is on the market as we speak in China (western world will not make too much noise about since they are petrol heads) so that will bump up the range somewhere at 8x. Most of airplanes fly totally on auto (if you are a pilot you know that). Also I bet it will be a pilot there since legislation will not allow it. You can't drive thru storm so why will you fly when the conditions are adverse? Yes it will crash, some people will die. You see that on the road but you still drive your car...

@@LiliumAviation I'm with ya. Turn the heat up guys, Show the world that the future is here and now.

Absolutely!

And filled with a couple of 80 kg human beings or equivalent dummies.

When the Wright Bros first achieved powered flight, It didn't take a roomful of people and tens of millions of dollars, and they celebrated by sending a simple one-sentence telegram to their father. Quite different from what we see here.

Lilium is a scam just wait few years truth will come out

@@hanbulban3131 - Agreed! Something about it just seems fishy.

FOAD RIGHTNOW 100% it’s a scam, Just watch give it time.

@EmperorJuliusCaesar it was stable, the thing went up and down in a controlled manner. Just because it had a little bit of vibration doesn't mean it's not stable. It moved a few cm in total perhaps, super stable. Their control engineers now have data to validate their models and can certainly get it to hover and fly with less small deviations in the future.

imagine that what you are watching is a drone, and it wil match perfectly. it is even more stable than a regular helicopter (note that it takes off in an almost rectilinear fashion, while a regular helicopter kind of wobbles around way more while reaching its flying altitude), due to having several rotors propelling it upwards instead of just one. it shakes during the vertical takeoff (that is a given to keep the cabin stabilized) and then performs like a small jet airplane. that is the innovation, that it does not need a runway, and also can reach high speeds very quickly due to using jet propeller fans to move at higher altitudes instead of just relying on the rotors that propel it upwards . those jet propellers are also used by some helicopters to reach higher speeds, but the point of this machine is to rely completely on the jet propulsion and the fixed wings to keep altitude while flying, like a normal plane would, instead of flying all of the time in the fashion a helicopter (or more precisely, a regular 4 rotor drone) would, which is by propelling solely using the rotors. i guess it can do so, fly like a drone, but why would it do that for long distances if it can save energy and go faster by using its wings? my best guess is that it can be used to fly like a drone with its rotors for long distances in a fairly stable manner, but that such flying fashion would be reserveded for small distances (a block or a street) to save energy, while it can jet propel longer distances (i guess from an entire neigborhood to the entirety of the duration of the batteries, which i imagine can range from the ratio of a large city to the distance between two cities) to travel faster, more stable, and with less energy consumption

Exactly. They were cheering like it's a SpaceX launch.

Too much emotions on that tiny result.

It stinks of fraud even worse than Theranos

A 200 km flight in India ? You think you’ll have that service soon ? That it’ll even come to fruition ? That it’ll be commercial soon ? And that even if so, it won’t reach your region of Mid West India too long after that ?

search for Tim Pool on youtube. you have the same name as him

@@kingjojojo1 , Thanks for the comment. No. I'm no relation to that guy. I'm older and more modest, lesser known middle aged fella! 🤠

@@LiliumAviation Thank you Lilium. We're making the best of our times! Best to you all!

no, a flying machine

Yes it is. The kind of joke that sucks vast amounts of money from one bank account to another.

@@richie1326 which one woult that be?

No.

@@TheCanadianConspirac Noone was even inside...This is supposed to carry 5 people? Barely got out of the ground with just air inside.

do'nt say that too loud, it will bring down the toy, and most important, it will scare the investors away.

@@TheKaragio lol, how were you able to determine, how much of its thrust it was using, to get off the ground and how much it had left? - pretty sure these people were smart of enough to solve the maxWeight = maxThrust/thruster * thruster equation...

​@@jeffreylebowski4927 By basic aerodynamic principals this design is terribly inefficient. So I really doubt this toy can do anything better than what was shown.

Good joke. On the other hand... distance from OBF to Theresienwiese is less than 25 km. It could be feasible ;-)

Yep. Hovercrafts of all shapes and sizes have been able to do that for years now. Don't show me people getting all ecstatic and hugging everyone left and right over that, you're just making yourselves look ridiculous.

Let's see you make something better then

Imagine 20 vacuum cleaners running in an elevator shaft that's the sound quadcopter drones are already super noisy, but if you wanna reach 5-seat-helicopter levels of lift, you will have 5-seat-helicopter levels of noise.

​@@horstherbert35-- I know right? One thing ducted fans aren't known for is being quiet ... I have a great idea, let's create a vehicle with an abnormally high disc loading and then dump tons of power into it in a frequency band that humans are both sensitive to AND find especially annoying. Brilliant!

I guess you missed the part ELECTRIC...

Look at all the nerdy old aviation arm chair experts come out on this one.. adapt, or die.

Jim Panse, the Lilium Jet actually features not only 20 but 36 electric fans.

What do you think?

Dunning-kruger effect much?

I didn't even see a pilot.

@@alessandromangaXD I don't think you really know what that means as it doesn't apply in the least with my comment.

Buy lilium stock's now

Lol

Haha that's delusional.

Thanks! You made my day! :-)

Which revolution?

Do you really expect it to surpass helicopters?

​@@_to_dream_or_not_to_dream, where did them surpassing helicopters comment, come from? Even they are not claiming that. Being a technology fan, I am just a wellwisher to any such company or an individual who is trying to use science to help man and mankind making their lives better. Maybe you need to see their website to know what really they are trying to do. lilium.com/

Be real. Video is for the investors.

Any millionaire that invests in this BS is a moron with money (there are thousands of them)

Lilium is a scam just wait few years truth will come out

Even if it is flying forward: Question is how long? What happens if only one of the four rotating arms will jam?

@@hanbulban3131 Yes now most new things are scams: electric vehicles that burn you to death in 10 seconds, windmills that kill more birds than all hunters in the world, solar instalations that vaporize and burn thousands of birds in mid air flight, etc....don´t get me started with the thousands of app that hardly anyone use, etccc....

@@hanbulban3131 That's an interesting viewpoint, and I don't disagree with you. But what kind of scam? Please elaborate on why you think it's a scam.....

It looks more dramatic for the phoney video!

@Code Tech..... your question sounds like the beginning of a really good joke. Can someone please come up with the answer?

Fish Killl This is NOT a drone... it is a 5 PASSENGERs flying VEHICLE 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@johnmanderson2060 correction: it is a 5 *seat* , *hovering* vehicle. Nothing more.

richie1326 🤦🏻‍♂️ It is a FLYING jet ! CONTRARY to a drone with ONLY vertical axis propellers, the Lilium JET has rotating engines that goes on HORIZONTAL mode to have a semi plane / lifting body flying mode. Got it ?

I still have a copy of HOBBY (~ 1965) in my library with articles on the year 2000 and it's achievements, like personal household robots, flights to planets for everybody, 3D-traffic in cities, and - flying cars - obviously. Very amusing. Instead we are discussing medieval religions, produce electric power by burning coal etc. etc.

@@HWR71 So true!

@@HWR71 "Instead we are discussing medieval religions, ...." oh, that's putting it mildly. How about, "everyday indoctrinated lunatics are killing each other or totally innocent men, women and children".

who said 1957? bullshit