Lilium Jet achieves full transition on wings and canards 

They were stalled because they were still thrusting down at high AOA

@@stargazer7644 At 170Kph in forward flight I would expect a much lower AOA (ie: unstalled) for efficient flight. It seemed that because they were relying on thrust vectoring for pitch control using the canard the airflow was very rarely laminar over those front engine nacelles.

@@xjet Yes, I agree. The front canards really don't seem to have much lifting surface. I don't think they're going fast enough to have much control authority with all of the nacelles pointing backward.

This design will glide about as well as the space shuttle. Also NOT A JET.

@@bradkubota6968 Regular passenger jet planes are not actually jets either, with the bypass ratio we have now a days. There's no point being pedantic about it. There's the colloquial "jet airplane" and actual "jet airplanes" and if you don't know enough about airplanes to know the difference, which is most people, it really doesn't matter what you call it anyway.

So you have never seen an helicopter? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

I agree, the landing looked perfect!

@@CrashTestDummi Yeah it doesn't look like a glider (looks can be deceiving), and if one side of those engines failed thing would perform the best dynamic rollover ever. Don't take away from the fact that this was a perfect exhibition and that he absolutely buttered the shit out of that landing.

@@CrashTestDummi It has 36 motors, so it'd probably be okay if 1 went out. I'd be interested in seeing videos of various engine failure scenario tests, if it's at all safe to do so.

@@EncrypticMethods I don't think an thrust motor failed, since they have a lot for redundancy. My worry is about the tilt motor failing which I am not sure how they have a safety or redundancy for that ? like if one failed or was stuck in one position that would be disastrous. Though I am looking forward to how they address that. But have to say I am impressed so far. Looks cool too.

Good point

So many questions left still: Whether or not this could perform in high DA environments, altitude restrictions, performance and envelope? Too much unknown. Super cool concept though

on the rear wing it looked fine, but on the front canards even @~100kts the flow looked rather turbulent.

Not over the front nacelles they weren't. Very rarely they were. GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR! I...SAID...GOOD.....DAY!

I agree, Troy! Wow, just wow!!!!😂🤪

They did not achieve laminar flow over the engine pod and forward flight, it was defeated 20/30 degrees but they are getting there

This and Joby aircraft seem to be the most survivable eVTOL concepts to date.

@@tiutran2610 I think you are right .... BUT .... Archer and evex is doin OK

I still lean towards a static design (e.g. octocopter). But i have come around to the servo idea a fair bit. At first i was quite skeptical because of the moving part. However the prize of having normal winged flight is nice. A multirotor can't do that it's eternally suck in a poor flight mode. Ultimately i think the extra power needed for a static aircraft is worth it. With multirotor you are able to go in any direction instantly, winged aircraft can't.

Have you seen jetoptera and mad bat?

@@LegendLength I was and still am a bit skeptical of the tilting mechanism, but i also had this thought - there are electric servos that move huge control surfaces on big jets with much higher load and they move them a LOT during each flight. So it will probably be fine.

....hope You will not die in one .....completely senseless project it needs 20 x - times STRONGER batteries, which do not exist .....

Would be great if we invest in them by buying some shares.

@@davidcharles223 I will, in the very near future

Are you a bot ? 😮 You talk like one wtf

Do you need a polits license?

Batteries are currently at a limit. With lithium being the best chemical for batteries out there, it has a limit of charge per mass of lithium. So unless we find a new magical element that can hold more charge.... don't get your hopes up about range. Only way to improve range is more batteries

Are you their parent to be proud of them?

@@wildwilco Aluminium, 3 times the ions of lithium and it's abundant.

@@123Andersonev yet nobody makes aluminium batteries... its nickel cadmium, lead acid, lithium (polymer/ion). solid metal batteries is something we allready tested, and they never have the capacity, or the power output.

@@wildwilco there's a company in Australia already on it, but yes they aren't mainstream yet, you can get aluminium button batteries already.

I must have missed that bit, never saw straight strings on the canards.

@@dougaltolan3017 1:28 min

@@jannikweisser Ahh, thanks, I must have blinked. Shame that this video dosent show that as a stable, maintained state, as the title suggests.

hopefully that isn't the upper end of it's envelope.

Did we watch the same video?

@agent Red, you would not be able to afford it!!

Where it at we need it

@@peterosmond5742 is that English?

You have 2.5 MUSD lying around?💰💰💰

@@julesdomes6064 possibly

Not really a jet. Those are ducted fans.

@@cypvh74 jet seems like a descriptive enough term for an electric plane with ducted fans to me. Wouldn’t be descriptive enough if you’re talking about planes in general, but if you specify electric I feel like it works.

They are Dysons best fans......lol

@@MotorcycleWrites No it's an electric ducted fan, not a jet engine

@@kkuhn I am aware of that. I’m saying that “electric jet engine” is descriptive enough. You’re not going to get “electric jet” confused with a different kind of engine, and it does describe what’s happening (creating a jet of air with electricity). I’m aware that it is a different kind of engine to a gas-turbine powered engine. I’m just saying that “electric jet” could only refer to an electric ducted fan, so it works as a descriptor.

Till it get shot out to the sky near Texas

@@outlawcustoms132 Dang, completely forgot about that, need a special "No Fly Zone In Case Of Ranchers Calling It UFO And Attempt To Shoot Down" :D (Already you gave away too much fuel for comedians :D)

Well, the future sky is theirs if only one of those craft are in operation. How will we manage those skies if there are hundreds of them zipping here, there and in and out?

@@virginiamoss7045 Probably the same way we manage traffic on the roads, although without traffic jams.

@@Kombivar Roads are two-dimensional; these marvels are three-dimensional, not at all the same.

I'm thinking of all the computer simulation that it took before they even took to the sky. More than likely still very nervous who ever was flying it. Sounded awesome too.

it all looks like that till it goes horribly wrong. im referring the the flying car that was in a bond film.

Now all they need are impossible physics so they can scale this up.

@@stargazer7644 Let's look forward to get on that magnificent level of travelling

@@Mrasdwin It's going to take a lot more than hope and wishes to make this thing a reality.

@@stargazer7644 It is. I'd like to be the part of making this thing into reality

My overarching concern is really with the performance in high DA settings. It doesn't seem like it will perform super well in its current iteration

Yes, I concur.

Ooga booga

Nose heavy.

The tell tales were running pretty straight for a little bit there. The problem was that most of the flight was take-off and landing.

Adding a verified charger would be great, tho at first they only operate at their own Airport/Vertiport.

Sweet move, I have followed lilium for some time now and is my #1 choice just not financially in a place where I can make things like that happen.

...and I am putting a piece of sugar in the window and hope, a stork will find it ....... and so on ....Marc, - continue dreaming .....

@@helmutpohl2762 VTOL tech has been used since what the 80's so you think it's that far off when a guy can make a bathtub fly using drone tech?

@@kab3d3bmw VTOL isn't the problem... Doing it with batteries and having any sort of useful range or payload capacity on the other hand...

Rich people hovering above the chaos... ahhh the future!

Did you watch a different video to me? All I saw were canards in complete stall at 170 kph - this thing has the glide profile of a rock, and that many electric motors just means more things to go wrong. This 'aircraft' will kill people, mark my words.

@@bashkillszombies Yeah, I saw the same video you did... with the really cool airplane. I still think the future is going to be dogshit.

This is some rich dudes toy. it isn't getting past that ever

@@shaynejenkins446 But the future will have canards! Canaaards!!

Yeah, short range is what this thing really excels in, Lol!

Did you watch a different video to me? All I saw were canards in complete stall at 170 kph - this thing has the glide profile of a rock, and that many electric motors just means more things to go wrong. This 'aircraft' will kill people, mark my words.

@@bashkillszombies you should've been there when Wright brothers were doing their thing, your "advice" would've been invaluable to them, mark my words, WAC !

@@bashkillszombies if it was so dangerous as you said, something would've gone wrong immediately in this video, don't all aircrafts kill people when they crash?

@@bashkillszombies thanks for your input. let us know how your electric plane is doing

@@dr.wallacebreen3859 something is obviously wrong when you see an aircraft of this size can’t aerodynamically balance at that velocity (and without a payload). In this video, the canards are trying to balance the aircraft by a brute force thrusting downward instead of its aerodynamic surfaces doing their job during cruise. Hence proving the vehicle is unstable and makes bashprompts comment somewhat valid

Welcome to the wonderful world of aviation units. :)

I couldn't agree more....They're flying the thing in imperial knots and feet, it's right in the audio and they are in Spain for gods sake. But displaying metric Klicks on their website. In 60 years of flying the free world I have never heard ATC ask for an airspeed in Klicks or an altitude in meters. And having been around airplanes for better than 70 years I have never seen an airspeed indicator graduated in Klicks or an altimeter graduated in meters, IN THE FREE WORLD. Who landed on the moon first? There was not one metric nut or bolt on Apollo 11. LOOSE the metric system! Let the Russians have it.

And all the best in turning as well!!

I'm giving it a best gong forward also.

This thing is not a flying car, it's an overrated drone.

......climbing into a jetson flying home, ordering a black fly. 😂

Seems much quieter than drone type with their propellers. Is it so and how is this noise reduction achieved?

Haha... indeed, very Jetson-like! 👍

the fact it has a "wing" gives me sense of security: if anything went wrong just turn off them and glide

hey, this guy wasn't initially convinced. you gotta work harder to convince Mikowmer on youtube comments. come on now.

These engines being electric means orders of magnitude reduction of complexity and chance of errors.

The converse is that by combining your control surfaces with your thrust you LOSE all control (and sustentation -ie 'anti gravity' forces ) when you lose power - and you then 'plummet' like a stone (to quote black adder 'the usual procedure,then, is to accelerate at 32 feet per second per second until meeting the surface and then distribute yourself over a considerable area of the countryside") The complete flow separation over vast areas of the canard and wings would normally precede a violent roll off and loss of control,spin etc but in this case NOTHING - indicating that the whole thing is 'flying' on sheer brute force provided by the fans inside the ducts . Something like a total of 3000 horsepower is quoted (each fan being something like 100 HP - ONE of which should be about enough to fly an empty aircraft of this size at much higher speeds . An incredible feat indeed - to have so much power thrashing away but still only stagger around at miserable speeds making a godawful racket and turmoil . An amazing achievement (only possible because of those huge airbrake flaps in fact )

@@rossnolan7283 I was about to disagree with your assessment, then realised that you're correct. However there are things preventing that failure condition (complete loss of thrust in all engines). For one, the redundency of the engines makes losing all engines at once due to engine issues highly unlikely. Secondly, there should be a redundent power supply onboard in case of main power supply failure which will mitigate that possible failure, similarly with redundent control systems. In addition, just because the application of the principle is flawed in this scenario doesn't make it invalid. By integrating your thrust source into your control surfaces can help with control as you now have directional thrust. It's just that you shouldn't integrate your control surface into the thrust source (i.e. there should be some control surface that, even if it's the same control surface as the engine has been integrated into, still acts as a traditional control surface).

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If they did that it might scare off investors. Lol. These companies never give out the info that actually matters.

Well, it already did...

@@smitty7510 Thats good good hear👍

I was yelling at my monitor 'tip up!' but then it went to scene 2 showing he did have plenty of time and distance and needed that speed to get over there.. Radome ok, if it has one. lol : ) 👍 Looked flawless.

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Fresh LOL

....for some minutes ...... this distance You can go better and cheaper with a bicycle ----> ´cause of not - existing strong batteries

@@helmutpohl2762 Lithium power density has gone from 50 watt / kg to 450, in a span of only 15 years. You can see it won't be long until there are good solutions for planes.

@@LegendLength you're mixing up different cell chemistries here. In practice there has been nothing like that gain in proven, reliable, safe battery technologies.

@@chimpana By 'lithium' i'm speaking of modern batteries in general. I'm not going to list all 100 different chemistries. Not sure what you're trying to say exactly can you expand? It's a literal fact that batteries have improved density that much over 15 years.

NASA did that as well in the 60s

I'd of thought they were more sensors than just string, all the feedback they can get will make it easier in the future! Rather than a visual aid.

@@bluenose7984 I did a bit of research and they're just strings. It's so they can visualize when they achieve laminar flow

Works great on sails too!

theyve been around forever, there a standard

You must be rich!

Its ugly and is gonna kill people. But its never goin past just being a rich dudes toy. So no you wont be ordering one.