Fixed wing flight is more efficient and faster than rotor wing flight. As such, having VTOL capability but also being able to do good old fixed wing flight seems like a good idea.
What's unclear to me is whether they can transition from one to the other in flight, but that might well be possible.
And this solution (with dedicated propellers for forward propulsion, and dedicated rotors for VTOL lift, on a fixed wing) strikes me as much safer than the complicated pivot mechanism proposed by Lilium (a German company that went bankrupt half a year ago, laying off 1000 employees).
What's unclear to me is whether they can transition from one to the other in flight, but that might well be possible.
And this solution (with dedicated propellers for forward propulsion, and dedicated rotors for VTOL lift, on a fixed wing) strikes me as much safer than the complicated pivot mechanism proposed by Lilium (a German company that went bankrupt half a year ago, laying off 1000 employees).