Lilium's Take on the Flying Taxi is Beautiful

We're at an exciting point in history, where a multitude of companies are trying to figure out flying cars, and practically no two design approaches seem alike. A startup called Lilium's approach is to use conventional jet engines, since their reliability and maintenance needs are well understood. The company's innovation is to go with extremely small and simple jet engines—and to spread 36 of them along multiple wing surfaces, fore and aft. By having the wings rotate 90 degrees,...