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I love how in the video it shows 100+ people cheering and hugging each other in blissful victory for essentially making a drone fly. It looks extremely unstabl

• TeMPOraL 7y ago
  > I love how in the video it shows 100+ people cheering and hugging each other in blissful victory for essentially making a drone fly. Agree. The plane looks cool, and there definitely were a lot of people happy it flew, but the reactions on video look ridiculously staged. It reminds me of videos of rocket launches, except in those there's a high risk the rocket (and last X months of work) will just blow up on the pad, and you don't get to test-fly it beforehand. I don't think there were any outcomes possible for Lilium other than "it works" and "it almost works".
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• hedvig 7y ago
  Flying by definition means movement in x/y right? They lifted 3 feet off the ground
• et2o 7y ago
  I feel like this is a bit gratuitously negative. This short flight is the product of months or years of work beginning to come to fruition. Let them celebrate.
• vidarh 7y ago
  Look at the videos of the two seater prototype. It has executed a lot more complicated maneuvers. They have some tweaking to do on their bigger model, that is all.