{"id":57300,"date":"2016-05-11T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T09:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=57300"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:22:37","slug":"lilium-vertical-takeoff-personal-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/05\/lilium-vertical-takeoff-personal-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well yes, but it&#8217;s your own personal plane that takes off vertically&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2_intro-bg-2.jpg\" alt=\"2_intro-bg-2\" width=\"760\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2_intro-bg-2.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2_intro-bg-2-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2_intro-bg-2-450x261.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>While some may be excited about the prospect of driverless cars, personally I&#8217;m\u00a0a lot more excited about the prospect of driving my\u00a0own personal jet\u00a0\/ flying car!<\/strong>\u00a0(although\u00a0nervous passengers may be less so).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Set to go on sale in 2018 the <a href=\"http:\/\/lilium-aviation.com\/\">Lilium plane<\/a> is set to be the first all-electric vertical takeoff and landing plane to hit the market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lilium co-owner Daniel Wiegand states: &#8216;Our goal is to develop an aircraft for use in everyday life.\u00a0We are going for a plane that can takeoff and land vertically and does not need the complex and expensive infrastructure of an airport.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/londonflight-2.jpg\" alt=\"londonflight-2\" width=\"760\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/londonflight-2.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/londonflight-2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/londonflight-2-450x270.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Just picture it. No stressful commute to work. Just step out the house, pop on your aviators and flying jacket and step into your own personal jet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">With its vertical takeoff and landing there&#8217;s no need for a runway, just strap in and takeoff. Soon you&#8217;ll be flying high in an uncongested airspace. Plus with it being electric you don&#8217;t need to worry about any noise waking the neighbours!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mountainflights-2.jpg\" alt=\"mountainflights-2\" width=\"760\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mountainflights-2.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mountainflights-2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mountainflights-2-450x270.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">With a top speed of just under 250 mph and powered by a 320kW bettery it can cover a range of up to 300 miles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Its in-flight features include GPS-assisted navigation, an onboard computer to manage take off and landing, fly-by-wire joystick controls, all-round windows and plenty of storage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">You only need 20 hours of training and a valid pilot&#8217;s license before you can start flying on your own\u00a0&#8211; if you cast your mind back to how long it took you to learn to drive a car that may be a terrifying prospect, but what the hey, it&#8217;s 2018 and we&#8217;re travelling\u00a0like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Jetsons\">Jetsons<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ready-2.jpg\" alt=\"ready-2\" width=\"760\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ready-2.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ready-2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ready-2-450x270.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some may be excited about the prospect of driverless cars, personally I&#8217;m\u00a0a lot more excited about the prospect of driving my\u00a0own personal jet\u00a0\/ flying car!\u00a0(although\u00a0nervous passengers may be less so).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":57307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57300"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57399,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300\/revisions\/57399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}