Derek Smith (television producer) looking at life at a US Air Force base at Mildenhall in East Anglia. (1967) Smith produced "The Flight Deck Story", the history of the aircraft carrier, filmed on HMS Eagle and on USS Enterprise off the coast of Vietnam. He also produced "Mission To Hell", which followed the Bishop of Birmingham Leonard Wilson returning to Singapore to tell his story of war time imprisonment by the Japanese Army. Another military history film Smith made at this time was "Jump Jet", the history of the Hawker Harrier, vertical take-off or land aircraft. A film for the series The World About
Lilium Jet its product into an international brand. September 2018, Yann de Vries, Partner at Atomico, became the new Vice President of Lilium. The Lilium Jet is a five-seat canard light sport aircraft, it has twelve flaps each fitted with three electric engines, each with a ducted fan. The flaps will allow the aircraft to take off vertical and transit to level flight as the flaps are moved. The flaps are directed downwards to start, creating vertical lift. Ongoing flying they are in horizontal position, so the forward thrust results. Here, the wings contribute to the buoyancy, which is energetically much more