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Re:Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a suc... by arethuza on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:31AM (#19927456)
You can also use any convenient source of heat - e.g. a nuclear reactor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

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Re:Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a suc... by jl2718 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:07AM (#19929695)
Wow, the 50s were so awesome! This is the kind of thing I wanted to do when I studied engineering. Would anybody else rather make nuclear-powered jets than web sites?
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Re:Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a suc... by silversconfused on Thursday May 16, 2019 @12:18PM (#19930336)
Oh hell yeah I would, but I sleep better knowing most of YOU ALL are making websites instead of nuke-drones. :P
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Re:Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a suc... by DuskStar on Thursday May 16, 2019 @01:43PM (#19931097)
Pretty sure everyone - including the people who worked on it - is happy that Project Pluto [0] / SLAM [1] never flew. Despite how awesome the projects were.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missil...

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