{"id":12130,"date":"2019-05-19T08:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:15:34","slug":"lilium-elevates-five-passenger-uber-ready-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/lilium-elevates-five-passenger-uber-ready-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilium Elevates Five-Passenger Uber-Ready Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uber Elevate,<\/a> headed toward its third annual meeting in Washington, D. C., has established guidelines<\/a> for what it wants to see flying in its service.\u00a0 Lilium, a German electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing maker, has flown a vehicle that seems to meet those guidelines.<\/p>\n

The web site, A New Domain.net<\/em>, notes, \u201cThe authors of the Uber paper point out that the high-profile German concept, the\u00a0Lilium, is a \u2018push to extremely high levels of distribution while coupling the vertical lift in closely with the wing high-lift system.\u2019 The concern here, however, is that such\u00a0jet-lift approaches \u201cwill require substantially higher power for takeoff and landing, with greater challenges operating quietly within cities,\u201d according to the Uber paper.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the looks of it, Lilium still looks awfully cool. Due in 2018, Lilium is an egg-shaped plane and oft noted as a key development by European Space Agency (ESA) reps. Capable of a top speed of 250mph and a range of 300 miles, it is said to require just a 50\u00d750 foot place to take off.\u201d<\/p>\n