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Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet by astrodust on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:06PM (#14168978)
A helicopter can auto-rotate, though that's really the least-bad option if you're in that sort of situation. It turns an assuredly fatal scenario into a hopefully, maybe, possibly survivable one: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/14605/how-does-...

Here's a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTqu9iMiPIU

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Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet by jimbokun on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:23PM (#14170464)
Haha! That Neil DeGrasse Tyson, what a dummy.

(Good sport, though. And I also thought a helicopter would drop like a rock without power.)

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Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet by astrodust on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:08PM (#14175105)
It drops like a rock if the Jesus Nut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut) fails, but that situation is freakishly rare.
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Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet by lookACamel on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:02AM (#14171806)
So similar to how a maple seed glides?
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Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet by astrodust on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:29PM (#14174925)
Not really. Watch the video. A maple seed has less control over how it spins.
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