But I wish they'd stop calling them jets. They are ducted fans. 🙄

 

https://www.flightglobal.com/business-aviation/saudia-firms-order-for-up-to-100-lilium-jets/159165.article

3 hours ago, martin-w said:

But I wish they'd stop calling them jets. They are ducted fans. 🙄

 

https://www.flightglobal.com/business-aviation/saudia-firms-order-for-up-to-100-lilium-jets/159165.article

You don't really expect today's journalists to actually get the facts, do you? 😂  Besides, most people today would not understand the difference between piston-prop, turbo-prop, turbo-fan, and ducted-fan.  It's just a plane to them and putting "ducted fan" into the title of the article would confuse them.

It's not the fault of journalists this time. Lilium themselves have called it a "jet" right from the start. 

https://lilium.com/

 

 

Edited July 19, 20241 yr by martin-w

So I'm to trust my life to a company that doesn't understand the difference between "jet" and "ducted fan"?  Not exactly inspiring of confidence when you mislabel your own product. 😂

I know what you mean. I'm sure the engineers know the difference but the people responsible for promoting the product probably thought "electric jet" sounded sexier. 🙄😁

Edited July 20, 20241 yr by martin-w

Wow   !!!!  A contemporary version of the Jetsons mobile. Now i can have a meeting at Spacely  Sprockets   LOL!!!!!!!

Edited July 21, 20241 yr by Paul Deluca

9 hours ago, Paul Deluca said:

Wow   !!!!  A contemporary version of the Jetsons mobile. Now i can have a meeting at Spacely  Sprockets   LOL!!!!!!!

 

It will cost you $10 million you know? 😃 

Jet just means throw something out, normally quickly, more specifically in English strong narrow stream of gas, liquid, steam or flame, forced out of a small opening.

So I don't see the problem of electric jet using duct fan, as long as it doesn't claim to be "gas turbine engine", remember Rocket engine is also a kind of jet engine anyway.

What do bother me is some car have "electric turbo" which means to use a electric motor to drive a supercharger, while "turbo" or "turbine" means some rotational machine been driven by fluid.

5 hours ago, C2615 said:

Jet just means throw something out, normally quickly, more specifically in English strong narrow stream of gas, liquid, steam or flame, forced out of a small opening.

 

That was a point I made on a different forum, some years ago, so I can't argue against too vociferously. A fair point.

I guess it depends how you define a small opening. I don't recall other, similar sized ducted fans being called jets. I notice on their website that they refer to the "ducted fans" but then call the entire aircraft a jet aircraft.

It's not important, of course, still an impresive eVTOL approach.