Lilium’s First eVTOL Jet Reaches Power-On Milestone

Lilium flight deck

The Lilium Jet is equipped with Honeywell’s Anthem flight deck and Compact Fly-By-Wire flight controls.

Credit: Lilium
Lilium has achieved the system power-on milestone for its first prototype Lilium Jet electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi. The first aircraft, MSN 1, will be used as an iron bird test rig and will not fly. To achieve power-on, Lilium applied 900-volt external power to the aircraft, where...
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