Farnborough Airshow 1958, the Fairey Rotodyne was the star attraction, with its “tip-jet” powered rotors, transitioning from an helicopter vertical takeoff and hover to autogiro flight, exceeding helicopter speeds. In 1962, the last time it was held annually, the Hawker P.1127, the VTOL precursor to the Harrier jump jet, made its debut, like the corporate de Havilland DH.125 Jet Dragon, the de Havilland Trident and Vickers VC10 airliners. From 1966, foreign aircraft were allowed if that they had British major components, like the Rolls-Royce-powered Aermacchi MB-326 trainer and Fokker F27 turboprop airliner, as the Red Arrows, the RAF aerobatic display team, debuted
Lilium Jet economical than the pure rotorcraft. The technical data are from the early phase of 2016. Lilium Jet The Lilium Jet is a proposed German vertical take-off and landing electrically powered light sport aircraft designed by Lilium GmbH. Lilium was founded in 2015 by four engineers and PhD students at the Technical University of Munich. They are supported by the Business Incubation Center Bavaria, the European Space Agency ESA, a Chinese Internet company, a bank, a technology fund and private investors. The Lilium Eagle, an unmanned two-seat proof of concept model, had its maiden flight at the airport Mindelheim-Mattsies near Munich