Test Flight September 28: Lilium Jet Demonstrates Maneuverability 

Thats very nice to see your progress. I press my thumbs that you bring this project into a success story. I am convinced that the Lilium Jet is the most progressive and interesting technology of all the developments I have seen until now.

Congratulations on the progress to the whole team, this looks very smooth! Can’t wait to fly with one of these beautiful machines one day.

I'm always happy when I see Lilium flying. Can't wait for the first series to be built. There is a future here.

I used to fly gliders as early as 10 years old. when I wasn't old enough to learn to fly I used to get to ride as a passenger in the tow plane. Once I had 7 flights in a row, the pilot was a Vietnam Veteran, this was in 1976 in North Carolina. We towed gliders up to 2,000 feet above the ground then to descend the tow pilot would put the tow plane into a stall then we would corkscrew two complete turns loosing 1,500 feet and land in less than 7 minutes from 2,000 feet. On the way down I was screaming in terror as the pilot was laughing. When we landed he asked how was that? That scared the hell out of me, he then asked if I wanted to go again for another flight, I replied YES PLEASE! I was 11 years old. Each time I screamed on the way down. Each time he asked me if I wanted to go again and each time my answer was Yes Please/Sure! I went 7 times in a row. That was the best Roller Coaster I have ever been on. I'm now 58. I hope I get to live long enough to ride in a Lillium Jet before I die, I just hope I don't die on impact. LOL My Brother eventually became an A380 Captain and still lives in Dubai.

One step at a time -- beautiful work!

My favorite EVTAL aircraft. Keep up the good work.

Congratulations & keep up the good work!

Amazing work! Congratulations on a successful test.

Bravo! This is a fantastic aircraft and I look forward to it being put into production. Congratulations! 👍👍👌👌

Amazing guys, congratulations 🎉

Excellent progress guys!

Good to see it flying again.

that's the coolest thing I've seen in a while. that's for sure!!!!

Beautiful, congratulations!

Congrats on a superbly stable impressive machine....

Very cool! Beautiful to behold.

What a beautiful plane...great idea, hard job, nice shape. Bravo👋

I am surprised that they were hiding out the scale of this aircraft and they were tend to shift its look via camera angles etc. Now they admit that they are using scaled model... Great improvement.

Awesome stuff!✈️👍🏻

Hope lilium sucsess

Wow that touch down was softer than me parking my butt on the sofa. , really impressive craft , wishing you success for future scale ups. Nice to watch.

Always great to see progress with the jet. I hope Lilium can make it to commercialization with a quality product in record time

What a Beautiful piece of engineering.

I'd like to see some tests performed in strong crosswinds.

So amazing to see the jet in motion, hear the propulsion systems in the background, and listen to the communication of the team is amazing. I can’t wait to see you guys in Orlando at Lake Nona and Florida will be grateful for this beautiful innovative jet.

Fascinating. Well done ❤

You guys are playing one age ahead on the tech tree. Amazing work. Seeing laminar flow across the main wing even while on the ground is pretty sick.

Perfect ! Congratulations !!!!

Fascinating. No idea why this ended up in my feed but I watched it.

It’s a beautiful piece of technology. Keeping my fingers crossed that the full scale aircraft has the range and speed - but particularly the range - that has been claimed 👍

It looks like the aircraft flies with the canard in stall?

Such an amazing design!

Beautiful !😊

Beautiful and stable.

This Technologie will bring a Revolution in Mobility - thats great 👍

Always happy to see more from this Projekt.

Looks VERY stable.👍

When will you stop showing only that? I ve seen stable flight years ago. Please manage the stock price.

thats really cool! and being a VTOL opens up a lot of possibilities!

C’est Magnifique!!!

Even when at higher speed wingborne there is a hell of a lot of flow separation on the canard's moving surfaces.

Woah that's really cool. The Lilium jet seems a lot more plausible than these quadcopters that could chop people's heads off and have no redundancy. With tons of tiny engines on the Lilium, if one or two die, it can still fly. Not to mention I assume it can glide somewhat, even with a total loss of engine power?

Looks spectacular!!! 😎👍 Handling, takeoff and landing seem very smooth indeed... Congratulations, all 🙏🙏

Spectacular! I also love the careful, thoughtful approach to innovation.

It looks awesome in the air. Was the first left turn not quite coordinated? I guess you have to compensate for not having a vertical stabilizer to coordinate the turns at low speed?

I can't wait to buy one of these!

well done Lilium. It is a pleasure to follow along with your amazing progress. Bravo/brava!

I like the eSTOl approach of Electra Aero although their first aircraft is a hybrid with an 800 kW turboshaft engine driving two 300 kW generators with power 8 generators and fan sets. Normal certification rules apply

Thanks for the heads up👽

Congrats Guys!!!!!

Noice seem to be very strong, that’s compared to Joby. I hope the final product can be a lot quieter

The problem is that lithium ion batteries have a lower specific energy than cow dung, so no matter how good the control and aerodynamic are, it's not going to significantly outperform the speed and range than a WW-I fighter plane, as it runs on such a low performing power source.

Amazing. Lilium defies physics which made a design that created so much drag (as shown by the attached strings on its front wings), hence turbulance [to the rear wings], to be feasible. Congratulations.

Interestng plane and it flies nicely! I imagine that powerloss means this thing glides like a brick right? :)

Incredible, beautiful aircraft!! keep up the awesome work, guys .... you will not regret it/ we love your brains LOL

I imagine noise is going to be as much of a concern as range, good luck though.

Amazing!

The noise, how would you overcome it ? This is a small model,the large one will be ten times more noisier.

Absolutely stunning love it!! But guys remove the ads from Your RU-vid account for such important news and announcements

Interesting to se difference of airflow over canard and main wing. Quite noisy for proposed city operation but could be microphone positioning. An interesting project.

Good job. Anything that reduces noise, and greenhouse gases, of flying aircraft is a great accomplishment.

So graceful

Seems somewhat loud. Will noise be a problem in urban areas?

Congratulations ! Beautiful concept and development. Wonderful flying machine! Bravo !!

still playing with the same drone since 2 years?

Love this!

Love these videos! Curious, how much redundancy is built into each wing? N+???

So freakin' cool!!! 💜

My favorite thing about this VTOL is that it does not have exposed propellers that can be very dangerous.

my biggest issue are the constant delays and changes, the 2023 idea was again replaced now with a 2025 version as seen before. Key questions of researchers have not been really answered and the whole delays are a simple factor that make the predicted ranges far easier due to new battery technologie. I doubt that the flighttime and range will be achieved. terrible long way and meanwhile during the olympics we might see first flights from the competition I bet.

Amazing!!👍👍

Marvelous demonstration. But the real questions are: payload; duration; recharge time; and price point. This is a step in the right direction.

Nice to see a serious demo with no background music and real-time ground-control voice-over. Jet engines can be pretty noisy, though - that may be a consideration within cities . . .

Lets gooo 🎉 Please one more Video but uncut .

I’ve heard of ATC but never ASMR-TC ;-) great flight guys

Awesome!!!!

I'd be interested to know how much battery was left at the end.... I have an uneasy feeling that maybe it's not a lot?...

Congratulations for team.

Fabulous!! Great to see your progress. It seems quite noisy - that means you are losing a lot of energy to make the noise. Can you work on closed looped propellers to reduce the noise and increase the efficiency?

Very Good !!

thats amazing!!

Very nice jet. Brilliant

As an investor, I'd like to know when the testing stops and the commercial sales and flights begin.

Thats a beautiful flight! One question, when the engines start, we do not equation of ground speed vs weather conditions for a stable rotation. How does the plane avoid bouncy take off. Like if the air is too hot at the tarmac and then suddenly the plane catches cooler air or up draft etc?

Awesome! Looks so sleek in the air

I have a potential use case in London and have been following for years. I would like to see a flight demo in an urban environment

Excellent

Question: what is the "engine-out" glide ratio?

Keep up the great work! This is soundest advancement in flight in decades. People like me have invested in you because we want this. This is the next step in how we get around, in a better way.

Wonderful.

What happened to 60 Decibels ? LOUD AF

Great flight how will it Handel WIND SHEAR????

After all this time you still cannot get this rc model (because that is what you have there) to perform a spot turn or even ground taxi. And yet you continue with the absurd claim that this is going to be certified and in service in 2 years time. Your claims are simply not credible.

Perfect!!! 👏

Would having Toroidal propellers, instead of traditional fins, in these 36 electric motors be of benefit?

Congratulations.

This all looks very safe and like a smooth flight. No wind? How does the Lilium behave in gusty winds? Have you installed Giros that automatically compensate?

Would like to know how much of the battery charge is used for this 3,5 min flight.

Wow! That's very impressive. Looks a bit weird but flies well !

Love it 👏👏