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Lilium Jet, a two-seat lightweight all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) commuter aircraft, is being developed by Lilium Aviation.

Lilium's sexy aircraft design, with its tiny ducted fans in place of larger open rotors, will use twice the power of other eVTOLs in vertical lift and hover. But there's some serious advantages too; we spoke to Lilium's co-founder and CTO to clarify.

By Dominic Perry2021-04-22T08:39:00+01:00 Germany’s Lilium expects in the near future to resume flight tests of its five-seat Lilium Jet demonstrator, even as it works towards the arrival of a larger seven-seat prototype in 2022. Flight-test activity at the German start-up has been curtailed since early 2020 when an electrical fire destroyed its previous five-seat demonstrator. Source: Lilium Commercial launch will be with seven-seat design However, in the wake of a recent takeover and stoc...