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Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet by pdelbarba on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:24PM (#14169547)
How would this work through clouds? The water vapor would in theory block or scatter everything from UV to microwave radiation. Also, I don't want to be near a 1W laser/maser, and if our energy budget is 100kW, you'd need at least a 100,000W laser pointed at your tiny air taxi.
Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet by jacquesm on Friday April 21, 2017 @06:28PM (#14169923)
That's called target practice.

These guys do it all the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtxwT6PQIw8