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Featured In This Issue:
- Commentary: Looking Back from 2020: A Vertical Retrospective of 21st Century US Military Developments
- Washington Report
- Russian VRT500 Starts to Get Real
- JMR — Demonstrating Valor But Still Defiant
- Independent Training Alternative
- Fire Scouts in the Fleet
- Honeywell Goes “All In” on Urban Air Mobility
- The Electric VTOL News
- VFS Conference Report: Propulsion
- The eVTOL View from Europe
- Lilium Goes Its Own Way
- Educational Initiatives: Penn State STEM Rotor Day
- Cora + Boeing = Wisk
- HopFlyt Hops to the Future
- Luminati Creates Vertically Integrated VTOL Development Business
- VFS Talks Electric VTOL in Montréal
- VFS Supports Formation of Community Air Mobility Initiative (CAMI)
- VFS Conference Report: ARF
- March of the Interns
- Leadership Profile: Dr. Anubhav Datta, U. Maryland
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Lilium Aircraft is flying its all-electric Lilium Jet demonstrator at Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Germany. The company expects the production version will cruise at 300 km/h (162 kt) up to 300 km (186 miles). See pg. 36. (Lilium photo)
Posted Jan. 2, 2020