of its five-seater hovercraft’s first test flight. Complete with 36 fully electric engines, the aircraft can be seen in the video rising off the ground and hovering in the air while the employees celebrate.
“This is the next step of mobility as we perceive it,” Lilium co-founder Matthias Meiner said in the video. The company hopes to mass produce the aircraft by 2025 and envisions it would operate under an Uber-style app in which people would connect to the planes at different landing pads around the city.
In January, the U.S. aerospace company Bell unveiled its version of the air taxi which it plans to make available through Uber in the next decade. Their model is a four-seater with six giant fans that can tilt depending on where you want to go.
That should put Uber where it belongs ,in the trash bin