THE VIDEO SHELF · electric vtol aircraft
Aircraft Development Update
Lilium's CTO gives a short update on the electric jet's design, certification and development. It shows the canard and rear wing layout and the wheel design.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as primary-source company material that answers many engineering questions about the Lilium jet.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Lilium
- Topic
- electric vtol aircraft
- Format
- news
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Check out their other video posted around the same time as this one, especially the part about changing the wheel design to allow for rolling landings. Seems like regulators had the same concern. [VIDEO]
barnabask on Hacker News · 2022-06
In Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electric aircraft [video]Here's a youtube (June 2022) about Lillium by the company and it covers off a lot of the engineering questions. [1] [1] [VIDEO]
entropicgravity on Hacker News · 2022-10
In The Lilium Jet
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