Lilium Releases New Footage Of Air Taxi As It Completes Early Flight Testing And Builds First Manufacturing Facility

Lilium 发布空中出租车新画面，完成早期飞行测试并建立首个生产设施 图片来源：Lilium

• Lilium Jet 完成第一阶段飞行测试，飞行速度超过 100 公里/小时
• 首个飞行出租车制造设施已建成，第二个设施正在建设中
• 行业资深人士伊夫-耶米受聘领导 Lilium Jet 项目
• 到 2025 年，公司仍将在全球多个地点全面开展客运业务

Lilium是一家总部位于慕尼黑的初创公司，致力于开发革命性的按需空中交通服务，该公司今天发布了其全电动Lilium Jet喷气式飞机的新视频，庆祝其完成第一阶段飞行测试。

The Lilium Jet, the world’s first five-seater, all-electric, vertical take-off and landing jet, was revealed to the world in May 2019 and since then has been put through its paces at an airfield in southern Germany. The emissions-free aircraft, which will be able to complete journeys of up to 300 km in one hour on a single charge, has now been flown at speeds exceeding 100 km/h, in increasingly complex maneuvers.

新镜头首次展示了飞机从垂直飞行过渡到平飞的过程。这个标志性动作在飞机首飞几周后才首次完成，是航空航天领域最大的挑战之一，也是 Lilium Jet 具有显著航程优势的原因，因为它有两组机翼，效率远远高于仅靠旋翼升空的飞机。

Lilium Jet 的航程为 300 公里，能够完成比绝大多数竞争对手更长的旅程，使其能够连接整个地区，而不仅仅是在单个城市进行短途旅行。

在发布这段视频的同时，公司还庆祝了首个专用生产设施的竣工，这是为公司批量生产 Lilium Jet 做准备的重要一步。

The first manufacturing facility, a 3,000 square meter space located at the company’s headquarters, will soon be complemented by a second, much larger, facility which is already under construction at the same site. Combined, they will support Lilium’s aim of producing hundreds of aircraft a year by the time commercial services begin in 2025.

Lilium 还宣布了其高级管理团队的新成员，空客资深专家 Yves Yemsi 将加入该团队，担任首席项目官，他曾担任空客 A350 飞机项目质量负责人，取得了巨大成功。

Commenting on these milestones, Daniel Wiegand, co-founder and CEO, said: “It’s been thrilling to watch the Lilium Jet progress so rapidly and to see our first flying taxi manufacturing facility. We are taking tangible and concrete steps towards making our vision of regional air mobility a reality and we’re doing it on time.

“We believe that regional air mobility has the potential to be a remarkable force for good in society and we can’t wait for what comes next.”

百合喷气机和飞行测试

当地时间 2019 年 5 月 4 日 8 时 3 分，Lilium 喷气式飞机原型机首次飞上天空。这架飞机由 36 台全电动喷气发动机提供动力，运行时零排放，由于拥有两组机翼产生的升力，在水平巡航飞行时只需不到 10% 的最大 2000 马力。

自以简单垂直起降为特色的首飞以来，该飞机一直在进行越来越复杂的机动和更长时间的飞行。在成功完成了 100 多项不同的地面和飞行测试后，第一阶段测试的最终飞行速度超过了 100 公里/小时。

在第一阶段测试中，飞机还成功完成了一系列安全测试，包括发动机故障和襟翼故障，以及地面和空中的保险丝熔断测试。

这架飞机由地面遥控，现在将进入第二阶段测试，具体考察它在高速飞行时的表现。

Lilium Jet 的最高时速为 300 公里，预计不久将成为世界上最快的全电动垂直起降飞机（eVTOL）。

Commenting on the successful completion of the first phase of flight testing, Leandro Bigarella, Head of Flight Test, said: “The Lilium Jet continues to meet our expectations, delivering excellent in-flight performance and remarkably smooth transition from vertical to horizontal flight.

“That said, we take a relentless approach to improvement and, like any good testing program, we have had the chance to implement a number of refinements to the aircraft along the way.

“We are now moving into a critical stage of testing as we prepare for high speed operations and eventual certification by the relevant authorities.”

新生产设施

Speaking about the new production facilities at the company’s headquarters in southern Germany, Daniel Wiegand, co-founder and CEO, said: “Our ambition is to develop a world-class production facility here that will allow us to build critical parts ourselves and then deliver fully-assembled aircraft at the scale of the automotive sector but at the extremely high quality levels required in the aerospace sector.

"在考虑了许多生产首架 Lilium 喷气机的地点后，我们认为，鉴于当地航空航天供应链的实力，位于欧洲中心地带的地点最符合我们的需求。

"在我们发展的这个阶段，将我们的生产设施与我们的总部设在同一地点也是很有意义的，这使我们能够保持我们开发 Lilium Jet 的快速步伐，从创新到工程设计和制造。

如今，Lilium 在慕尼黑的基地拥有 350 多名员工，目前提供 150 多个不同专业的职位。从现在到 2025 年，新的生产设施预计将创造多达 500 个新的工作岗位。

伊夫-耶米受聘领导飞机项目

除了建立批量生产所需的实体基础设施外，Lilium 公司最近还聘请了业内资深人士 Yves Yemsi 来监督 Lilium Jet 飞机项目。作为首席项目官，Yves 还将领导公司的战略采购活动。

在过去的 15 年中，伊夫在空中客车公司担任过多种职务，最近的职务是高级副总裁，负责领导防务和航天部门的采购工作。在此之前，他曾担任非常成功的空中客车 A350 飞机的项目质量负责人，该飞机的可靠性达到了行业领先水平。

Yves 的任命是对 Lilium 现有生产团队的补充，该团队由首席制造官 Dirk Gebser 领导，他也是从空中客车公司加入 Lilium 的，曾领导过 A380 和 A320 飞机的组装工作。

The hiring of this role completes Lilium’s Senior Management Team, following the arrival of Christopher Delbrück, formerly Chief Financial Officer at Uniper, as CFO earlier this year.

Commenting on his appointment, Yves Yemsi, Chief Program Officer, said: “I’m extremely excited to be joining another iconic aerospace company and look forward to playing my part in revolutionizing this industry. In my time at Airbus I contributed to developing the most stringent quality standards for a brand new aircraft and I look forward to doing the same at Lilium.”

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