Article originally published by The Architect’s Newspaper.
It looks like German flying taxi startup Lilium is beating Uber to the skyways, as the Munich-based company revealed yesterday that it’s planning to build a “vertiport” in Orlando, Florida, with the hope to have passengers in the air by 2025…
Announced for the 17-acre planned “smart” community of Lake Nona in Orlando, …
… Lilium is using a fixed-wing jet design with capacity for up to five passengers at a time. However, 36 electric motors mounted on each taxi can rotate to provide either horizontal or vertical thrust, and each taxi will ultimately be able to travel up to 186 miles on a single charge at 186 miles per hour.