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Inside Lilium, The World’s First Vertical Takeoff And Landing Private Jet
Wonder what’s in store for the future of private jet flying? Here’s a glimpse. A start-up company – hosted in a European Space Agency (ESA) business incubator center in Bavaria – released an idea for an egg-shaped two-seater plane called Lilium that’s currently in the works. With a top speed of 250 mph and a range of 300 miles, the plane can travel roughly between Munich and Berlin in about 90 minutes. And according to the ESA, if testing succeeds, this will be the world’s first vertical takeoff and landing private jet.
The project came about when Daniel Wiegand – one of the four founders of Lilium – wanted to realize flying for the masses in a fast, inexpensive, efficient and eco-friendly way. ‘Our goal is to develop an aircraft that doesn’t need the complex and expensive infrastructure of an airport, can be used close to urban areas, and doesn’t produce too much noise and pollution,’ he said. So to produce this new class of airplanes that could take off and land vertically anywhere with a surface area of 250 square feet by 2018, Wiegand and his team in Germany came up with a design using electric engines and incorporated movable fan turbines.
Fonte: www.forbes.com
GLOSSARY
glimpse – uma ideia para entender melhor algo
Write (T) for true statements and (F) for false statements and choose the alternative that corresponds to the right order.
( ) The noise created by Lilium is too loud.
( ) Lilium will be a sustainable form of air transportation.
( ) Lilium has fan engines and an innovative technology to cut pollution.
( ) A European Space Agency designed an amazing aircraft with space for more than two people to sit.
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