This future aircraft will change everything

Lilium is targeting electric jets in our skies by 2026. These will take off like a helicopter, but then fly like a plane. I'm at EBACE2024, in Geneva finding the most innovative and coolest aviation companies to see how they're changing the industry.

Special thanks to @ebace-video for having me!

Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:11 Lilium
3:53 Honda Jet
4:58 Qatar Executive Gulfstream G700
6:23 Cirrus
8:02 Vaeridion
9:47 Bertrand Piccard
11:21 Alliance Aviation Group
12:53 Beyond Aero
14:56 VoltAero
16:35 Piper
18:00 GoGo in Flight
19:56 Diamond Aircraft
20:45 Leonardo
21:46 Airbus
25:04 Outro

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My EBACE2023 Recap:

[bwalker]

That Lillium thing is a perfect example of rushing to be a market first but with absolutely no charging infrastructure.

[ohwell]

Electric does not off set carbon. It is just the carbon is created somewhere else, like a power plant that creates the electricity that charges the battery's. And do those flight times include the mandatory 45 minute reserve. And, like a Tesla that is 10 years old the resale value is terrible because of the cost of a new battery pack is astronomical.

[commonsense]

That first one flies 2 hours, then charges for 4 days.

[jplacido]

The Cirrus also has a self-landing one touch button into the nearest airstip

[petediaz]

Sustainable, the most overused buzz word…

[michaelgillogly]

This whole idea of sustainability, it’s great that we’re working on it but it’s completely ridiculous to think even by the 2030s that an all electric airplane can do anything you need an airplane to do it’s just not gonna happen, all the same let’s be productive and keep working on it, but physics is physics.

[Tikun-Israel]

The Lillium will fail. Xchangeable Aluminium-air fuel cells are key. Not chargers.

[GroundhogDK]

This video shows exactly how serious and professional LILM is! They are showcasing their progress and sharing the process of development for all to see. And they are doing it THE RIGHT WAY! Meaning they are using industry standard compliance and auditing in all aspects of development. Regulated by the toughest standards for satefy in aircraft design and manufacture. This company couldn't be any more "by the numbers" if they tried. Finally their aircraft design is much safer for ground personnel with no rotary external parts.
I am proudly investing in their awesome journey towards green aviation. No air pollution and zero emission carbon footprint! Very silent running for amazing inter-city lownoise flights is a game changer in this industry. They are truly unique in their vision with this aircraft. LILM is the NVDA of aviation.

[Warmongerer]

None of these sustainable options could actually be commercial planes that an average person will use except the hybrid plane

[charlesblithfield]

Even if the fuel is “sustainable” planes still consume A LOT of fuel. How much? A single Trans Atlantic flight, one way, will burn about 70, 000 litres total liquid fuel. This is equivalent to 700, 000 kwhrs of total energy. The engines will therefore burn 7500 litres of fuel burned per hour or 125 litres per minute. Every passengers plane ticket buys about 500 litres of fuel equivalent in energy to 5000 kilowatt hours per person. The return journey therefore uses 10, 000 kwh energy per person.

To put these tremendous amounts of energy in terms that are easily understood MacKay equates it to a hot shower: a 30 litre hot shower, about 7 minutes long, typically uses 1.4 kilowatt hours of electricity, therefore a single 7 hour trans Atlantic return airplane flight uses as much energy as 7142 showers for every person on board the plane (5000 kwhr x 2 trip divided by 1.4 kWh). This is the equivalent in energy to just over 1 million showers total for the entire plane! (7142 showers per passenger x 141 passengers = 1, 007, 022 showers)

[rishikrishnannatarajan]

Consumers are being eco conscious is a joke statement ever.

[strangelylookingperson]

If there is no ad in a video, the whole video must me an ad.

[oscara]

Cirrus is my favorite. I’ve seen it at the EAA. Making aviation enjoyable.

[Sabot]

the Lilium is not a jet, it is a ducted fan electric aircraft

[butchfajardo]

Love the ACJ220 and the Leonardo helicopter. The TBM was the first I saw that can land by itself.

[lmfarms]

How long do the batteries last? Where do you dispose of them when they're life span has been spent. Lastly charging stations and cost to charge it. I love technology but there is a double standard about charging an EV. You have to have an electrical power plant run on coal, natural gas or turbine power. So how is this any better?

[stickynorth]

Lots of cool innovations on display... Most excited to see Lilium take off... If you power those things with solar, wind, nuclear or hydro? You've slashed carbon emissions for the 1% right handily.. As for the rest? We need more investment in electric trains to do most of the heavy lifting on trips below 500 miles.. Above that? Hydrogen from green sources is probably the best path forward for long-range aircraft.. SAF seems like a bit of a fools errand at this point...

[michaelcase]

Self driving cars were supposed to be available by now, but are much further away than was predicted.
They are also there looking for more investers.
Hydrogen fueled aircraft seem to be more possible than electric, or at least in the mix .
The future will be interesting to say the least.

[MetalGearMk]

the batteries must weight a ton and fire is a concern?

[Anonymous]

Electric propulsion suffers from drawbacks that, until solved, make it almost entirely infeasible for commercial use. Today’s battery technology is much too heavy for the amount of energy stored so flight times are short. Secondly the turnaround is way too long in a commercial environment. One of the most important metrics for a commercial operation is how fast you can get the plane back into the air. A plane on the ground is not making any money and if you have to spend several hours recharging, that is idle time that is not making money.