What would you do if I told you that private jets could be a thing of reality for everyone? Okay, maybe not everyone, but more than just the select few… Lilium Aviation, a German startup company has just conducted a successful flight test on for what they’re calling their vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Smaller than regular aircrafts and a lot like cars, the aircraft is being developed for personal use by regular people, just like cars. The aircraft, takes off vertically and so, does not require a long runway—which means a nicely spread lawn, or a farmhouse space would probably do just fine. 

Lilium Aviation

The aircraft gets a range of more than 300 km with a maximum cruising speed of 300 km/h and runs on electric energy. It produces less noise than a regular motorcycle. The prototype vehicle is a two-seater. However, Lilium plans on working on a five-seat version that will work as an air-taxi service system. 

Lilium Aviation

Speaking about the breakthrough, as well as the aircraft, Daniel Wiegand, CEO nad Co-Founder, Lilium Aviation, said, “Seeing the Lilium Jet take to the sky and performing sophisticated manoeuvres with apparent ease is a testament to the skill and perseverance of our amazing team. We have solved some of the toughest engineering challenges in aviation to get to this point. The successful test flight programme shows that our ground-breaking technical design works exactly as we envisioned. We can now turn our focus to designing the five-seater production aircraft."