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> I love how in the video it shows 100+ people cheering and hugging each other in blissful victory for essentially making a drone fly.

Agree. The plane looks cool, and there definitely were a lot of people happy it flew, but the reactions on video look ridiculously staged. It reminds me of videos of rocket launches, except in those there's a high risk the rocket (and last X months of work) will just blow up on the pad, and you don't get to test-fly it beforehand. I don't think there were any outcomes possible for Lilium other than "it works" and "it almost works".

I feel like this is a bit gratuitously negative. This short flight is the product of months or years of work beginning to come to fruition. Let them celebrate.

Look at the videos of the two seater prototype. It has executed a lot more complicated maneuvers. They have some tweaking to do on their bigger model, that is all.

Flying by definition means movement in x/y right? They lifted 3 feet off the ground