Questão 761104

Read the text and answer questions 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43.

Inside Lilium, The World’s First Vertical Takeoff And Landing Private Jet

1 Wonder what’s in store for the future of private jet flying?

Here’s a glimpse. A start-up company – hosted in a European

Space Agency (ESA) business incubator center in Bavaria –

released an idea for an egg-shaped two-seater plane called

5 Lilium that’s currently in the works. With a top speed of 250

mph and a range of 300 miles, the plane can travel roughly

between Munich and Berlin in about 90 minutes. And

according to the ESA, if testing succeeds, this _____ the

world’s first vertical takeoff and landing private jet.

10 The project came about when Daniel Wiegand – one of the

four founders of Lilium – wanted to realize flying for the

masses in a fast, inexpensive, efficient and eco-friendly way.

‘Our goal is to develop an aircraft that doesn’t need the

complex and expensive infrastructure of an airport, can be

15 used close to urban areas, and doesn’t produce too much

noise and pollution,’ he said. So to produce this new class of

airplanes that could take off and land vertically anywhere

with a surface area of 250 square feet by 2018, Wiegand and

his team in Germany came up with a design using electric

20 engines and incorporated movable fan turbines.

Fonte: www.forbes.com

GLOSSARY

glimpse – uma ideia para entender melhor algo

Write (T) for true statements and (F) for false statements and choose the alternative that corresponds to the right order.

( ) The noise created by Lilium is too loud.

( ) Lilium will be a sustainable form of air transportation.

( ) Lilium has fan engines and an innovative technology to cut pollution.

( ) A European Space Agency designed an amazing aircraft with space for more than two people to sit.