Lilium (LILM) receives firm order from UrbanLink to put 20 eVTOL jets into service in Florida

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• TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The us will literally do anything but build better public transportation.

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• SeaJ@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cue DeSantis banning this for being woke.

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• SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m absolutely positive, if anyone can turn this into a horrible disaster…it’s definitely Florida…

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  • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Adding new and complicated aircraft to an industry of already overwhelmed and under trained private pilots?

    This can only go the Florida way: with some dude, blasted on meth and bud light slamming one of these bad boys into the side of a resort.

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    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bets on if this is exactly what happens? I got $5 for this happening

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• Roldyclark@literature.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I listened to a podcast about these electric puddle jumpers and how they actually could make a huge dent in aviation CO2.

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• foofiepie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Electric jets? Is that a thing? How do they work?

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  • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jet is just marketing speak here. It’s a bunch of ducted fans.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it’s not generating compression to power itself it’s not a jet engine, it’s just sparkling ducted fans.

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like electric model airplanes and drones, but larger. Battery density is yet not good enough to electrify long-haul jumbo jets, but we’re beginning to see the electrification of small short-range aircraft.

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    • Shurimal@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They're not jets. They're ducted fans. Different things. "Electric jet" makes as much sense as "electric V8 engine".

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• assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We already have helicopters. They’re loud and somewhat dangerous. This is a dumb idea that will be you guessed it, loud and dangerous.

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  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They claim that these are less loud and less dangerous. Since this uses a shit ton of engines it means that multiple engines can fail before it loses lift. The reason why helicopters are loud as fuck is because the tips of the blades break the sound barrier. The blades in these engines do not go faster than the speed of sound. And unlike a helicopter this eVTOL has wings so when it is in flight the rotors don’t need to spin as fast as during takeoff.

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    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The thing is everything works in renderland. Just build a fucking train or something.

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and the controls are supposed to be drastically easier. helicopters are constantly suicidal and need to be strong armed.

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• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why so many small propellers instead of a few big ones?

  Bigger propeller is less noise

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