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Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet on Saturday April 29, 2017 @10:40AM (#14226777)
I'm surprised they didn't include an internal combustion engine in it to charge the battery. That's the solution for the terrafugia tf-x. https://www.terrafugia.com/tf-x/
Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet on Saturday April 29, 2017 @10:31AM (#14226736)
> And again, there's nobody in that: with a passenger it's going to work maybe three times as hard, depending on how light and dronelike it is empty.

How much do you think it masses empty? 30kg? The Gossamer Albatross was 32kg!

It's got to be at least 100kg empty.