Such a great engineering and development model. What's even more credible is that they were taken seriously and moved quickly into full scale proof of concept and certification.
@@rolflandale2565the Public fear still exists, for example if you read comments on other sites, people go off on every negative possible. The pessimistic say JOBY will be too dangerous, we already have Helicopters, we don't need eVTOL's, high wind will cause crashes, first crash with injury or death will end this dream, will be too expensive to fly, I'll never fly in one or a pilotless one, where will they land, FAA won't allow, too much competition, won't every happen, and on and on. I disagree with all the pessimism, I am a big JOBY fan. My brother is an expert pilot, he was skeptical at first, then realized, buy buy buy stock or regret at these levels. He admitted he started to buy into a position, a duh moment. We only get a few chances in life to hit a stock large, and this is one, could be a huge success, if you have patience.
@M C Helicopters lack the counter redundancy of multi-engine support. When you compare the dangers of a car and the cruise methods of aircraft, both have a chance of survival with initiative actions. If a classic mono-engine helicopter malfunctions, it will plunge like a rock. The helicopter casualties have a very high death ratio. From famous celebrities to most practical pilots with absolute manual navigation. Jobby has a lot of bureaucracy in structure rendering, but the price is to apply safety.
What a waste of time and energy! Just imagine the skies plugged with this stuff ; all beteen 50 and150 feet elevation!!!? What a train wreck waiting to happen! Probably another Federal Funded project! A crony capitalist funded project !😆😡
I’d like to see a test situation with one rotor out of sync due to mechanical failure, to see how the remaining rotors maintain stable flight. It has to be done eventually. 👍 Cool prototype.
with multiple electric motors, all of which can be controlled independently, if a motor is not performing correctly it can be shutdown & remaining motors receive more power to compensate. Having wing like structures also allows for added lift/glide as opposed to "auto rotating" (aka crashing - falling like a rock) in a traditional helicopter. With six motors as long as if four remain operational this should allow for a controlled landing.
Let's try to remember that battery packs can also be redundant --- so in order for a catastrophic failure and crash, this aircraft would need more than two rotors to fail as well as multiple battery packs --- literally close to zero chance!
Great video! Love how you were able to safely take off, fly and land the Joby safely with minimal coaching. Great semi-autoflight programming of a complex dynamic system. Brilliant!
I have a lifetime of experience building model planes and doing composites for aerospace and the Joby is by far the best and most advanced eVTOL. For a while they were right down the road from me here in Redwood City before moving out of the old Miracle Auto painting shop and into a larger space when they got the funding. This is by far the best eVTOL video on Utube! Thanks Joby and good liuck.
I was privileged to work for one of the first non-Government businesses to work with pre-preg carbon fiber. The company built light weight large racing sailboats, IACC and AC boats. I started on the first in 1990. The boats we built won a lot of races. Now the tech is everywhere. It is very cool to see the advances. One of the other companies nearby made spars - they had an autoclave, we weren't allowed to use one.
@@Helloverlord they showed different sound signature of various aircraft’s at the same distance and mentioned that this thing is below 70dB at lift off
What is the sound power at take off compared to helicopters or planes ? How does it match the WHO requirements in the envrironment (55 dB Lden) ? The 65 dB commented in the video does not mean anything : is it pressure ? Where with respect to the source ? Envisioning this kind of things closer to densely populated area than current aircraft will certainly come with noise pollution issue and sorry but the only comparison is in fly by for which you are comparing to non noise regulated aircraft - being « quieter » than unregulated source does not mean anything (apart from the fact that there is indeed a huge noise issue with those objects)
Kirsten, your husband is way more intelligent than he lets on 😉 Thanks for this awesome clip. Totally different but so totally cool and definitely not out of place on your channel. I have to say that out of all the channels I've subscribed to the video editing;almost seamless cinematic transitions; perfect flow of narration..... Perfectly shared capture of both your husband's voice and your voice on the 1 clip is just perfect 👌 By far the most improved channel of all my subscriptions. The improvement has felt organic and natural progression. Well done!
Thank you! I agree that my husband definitely has a more in-depth knowledge of most topics than I (he really does love reading about nearly any topic). Thank you for your comments on the editing. It's very labor intensive so appreciate when people notice.
That's always been a big criticism I have had with these flying electric vehicles, most of them are super-noisy. I am glad noise pollution was key in the design of this very complex vehicle. The tilting rotors are a marvel of engineering. I hope the mechanics are reliable. The Osprey used by the US Military, and uses a titling rotor mechanism, has massive reliability issues with the tilt mechanisms. Thanks for covering this company!
Much quieter than I thought, well done. It needs some distance to houses because of the air turbulences it generates, but there will be enough use cases intercity for such an airplane.
this is the first evtol that actually looks like it might make any sense whatsoever. hitting the nail on the head with the noise pollution concerns, everyone says they want flying cars or a helipad in their back yard, until they have to live with the noise. 6 rotors for redundancy in motor failure in a hover, and manual elevator and ailerons for total power loss landings from forward flight. it will be interesting to see if they can get it certified.
Is there any protection from an emp burst from the sun? Solar flares have been known to knock out electrical components. This is an amazing aircraft, btw.
Hosts are clearly not technically literate about anything aviation, so asking mostly irrelevant questions but nice to see the facilities and prototypes
People ridicule when I say this is about to explode. Maybe they majored in physics or whatever but I'm telling you they are going to make this thing explode. They have tech you never heard of and this is obviously the plan.
I can see the use for this in scenic tours maybe for looking at glaciers and famous city scapes where you don’t want to disturb the people with too much noise. Very cool I like that it’s quiet.
Hahaha, obviously you rarely visit or live in a congested city, for example: LA, NY, Dallas, Washington DC, Mexico City, Tokyo, South Korea and 100's of other congested cities across the world, each city named has a never ending growth with gridlock traffic. Joby will work in all types of scenarios. Delta airlines/JOBY are working together in the future to bring customers directly to the airport, then fly wherever. Delta realizes JOBY is changing the game, save more time for fun/work vs wasting time driving in gridlock traffic. I agree, JOBY will be a great addition to Tourists, moving tourists or workers between islands for example:Belize, Hawaii, Vancouver island, Indonesia to name a few of the 1000's of tourists spots in the world where JOBY can be a vital transportation and learning tool.
However, the real fun is only starting, how to build 25, 50, and 100 JOBY's a year will be a monumental task. Main reason Toyota partnered early to help and refine the JOBY building process. Joby will need to build 1000's to crush the competition, who is late to the party, and/or years behind.
This is great. I've always been suspicious of VTOL transport videos that don't show you how loud they are. That's the thing that will determine if they're allowed in cities close enough to populated areas to be useful for their intended role.
A remote quad drone less than a kilogram is subject to a bunch of regulations most people aren't aware of. People are hyped by the positive potential exclusively, they always forget about the 80% other important things : safety, qualifications, infrastructure, regulation of shared space, maintainance and spare parts/qualified vendors and contractors, tested and validated overall systems, operation and management........ At the end of the day (or the decade), it always all come down to what people didn't expect : the operational constraints doesn't meet lambda people expectations in terms of costs or complications, only a few elite will have access to the privilege or service, sometiles via costy dérogation or because you're a billionaire authorities may have trouble challenging. I don't even have a licence to fly an ultralight on my own from an airfield (we steal the flying time of a qualified pilot) and I have a thousand times the knowledge a lambda anyont have in terms of flying and rules/regulation, I know how sensible of a qualification it is, I cannot trust putting any of that very advanced tech vehicles in the hands of the first _"oh gosh it's so dope, I also want a flying car"_ dude : that's a recipe for disaster and drama. If people are regularly going down the road to change the chips of a drone toy to exceed the built-in altitude limitation by regulation, what kind of stupid rules breaking they would intentionally or inadvertently do with a "flying car"? Sharing airspace with people and properties below is the opposite of "having fun", you do care about at all times and abide by the rules, there is NO WAY you decide where you go, just like medevac ops today, you wait for instructions (air traffic control) and you strictly follows virtually already defined limited set of flight routes. We don't want that thing flying over schools or other areas with dense flocks of people walking, there must be regular suitable emergency crash land sites along the routes, like a stadium, highways, corn fields... The only "your fancy extraordinary personal car" that may find birth in a city is the one that meets all those conditions, like Tesla autopilot where a connected centralized service decides how to drive the car. For a flying car, it will be the same : you're not the one to have command, you just input a destination, then the company owning the service flies you there on through defined standardized flight paths and standardized connected "other fellow air travellers in nearby vehicles". That way, we get lambda people out of the equation in terms of training/qualification, and we get all vehicles standardized in terms of regulations, flight rules and behavior. Or else, no personal car, you go to a flying taxi port and you rent the service with a fully qualified trained pilot that will do his best to get you to another port/other places with special derogatory privileges, but he/she remains who has the last word. Hope this helps you have a better window displaying what will slowly take place in the future, so you don't build the wrong expectations from the start..
Wow. That reeks of ingenuity and foresight. Really well filmed and documented. It's odd that this effort has not gotten more attention from the aviation press . . . or maybe I've somehow missed it. Amazing amount of development has gone into this project. Really smart people.
You've missed out, PBS showed a documentary on The Future of Electric flight 3 years ago. I've followed JOBY since, actually i buy every time the stock goes under $4, no regrets.
Ref minute 7:32 The size of the windshield and the windows are wide enough. That large cavity is the entry point for HIRF. I wonder if Joby has performed HIRF system test in a Lab. SAE ARP 5583A HIRF Environment might need to be updated to accomodate VTOL operation in urban area, in cities with large number of RF transmitter, in area surrounding Vertiport and in area where have many building that could induce RF reflection. In addition when propellers were tilt, there will be another HIRF threat through cavity (hollow) near Inverter nacelle.
There are so many things that come to mind. What about safety? Can it glide and land as a normal airplane would. What happens when one or two propellers fail? Will it fly on it's own? The future is so exciting. Love this video Kirsten, very well done. I would like to see more of this company. Go go.
It seems to have variable pitch props. This is not common and although increases complexity, it should be smoother in the the hover and faster in forward flight. Reaction time of hover flight controls is much faster like this .. Very interesting
The military would love this thing as a small insertion vehicle for small units. Areas that have a lot of islands would be great too. Thing is, it needs to seat 5-7 people, or else it won't replace anything that a helicopter can do.
_"it needs to seat 5-7 people..."_ I'm not an engineer, but I'm aware the huge problem of electric flying things is _"not having enough battery to maintain that thing flying for hours _*_the heavier it gets"_* Unlike fossil energy that packs a lot of punch for a small drop of toxic fuel, electricity is like blowing a sheet of paper to maintain it airborne, so, how many people lungs and mouth do you need to maintain a book airborne ? The answer for electric aircraft is... just like airplanes : if you want to lift heavier mass, forget about V/STOL, you need a runway and trade time+distance for potential energy to be converted to lift via wings.
Jist wondering if the charging/ fuel aspect was compared.... Also maintenence and materials used in the building of each would also be another noteworthy point.
Yes ! Exactly my first thought, thanks for pointing it out. I believe the Robinson R-22 would be a little smaller when I look at the wingspan (+ fans), and from my experience in drones (quad), losing one engine is quite dramatic (immediate loss of control due to assymetry), nowhere near the "chill" you feel when you have power loss on an R-22, you maintain level and you can autorotate if you're high enough.
Fantastic job ❤ in 1928 Nikola Tesla patented this technology with out aeronautical knowledge. The Joby is a great tribute to invention. With ADS-B in its early stages will allow this to become a great addition to the sky’s HOPE TO SEE YOU AT EAA AIRVENTURE the world 🌎 needs to see this. Prosit Kirsten Keep the blue side up ⬆️
Thank you, Kirsten, great film. This crossover is a welcome, natural extension on the theme of sustainability, shared throughout your work, and is, most certainly inspiring.
Flying 'cars' won't happen in the sense that any shmuck can get a license like for a car and start flying around. You'd need a pilots license which is much harder to get and more expensive to boot. This is a GOOD thing. The last thing we need is the average joe driver who can't stay on the road to be flying into people's second story apartment. These are cool concepts, like the Jetson One or drones being ridden on. But they also open up a lot of dangerous doors when they get cheap and accessible. Edit: This can already be seen with rich people flying around and crash landing like Harrison Ford (and he's a seasoned pilot lol)/
@@blueman5924 Don't know him, but he does fit better as a comparison opon a quick look. I'll admit I want one of these too. But just because I want something doesn't mean I should have it, and a low barrier to entry flying machine is one of them. At least paragliders won't cause as much damage as a small plane.
They are planning for it to become autonomous at some point in the future to make it cheaper and more accessible without causing those problems. Autonomous flight with predefined paths and landing points would probably be easier to develop than autonomous driving, since the sky is much more spacious than streets, there aren't any level cross-roads or t-junctions in the sky, and cyclists/pedestrians won't appear out of nowhere. Still won't be anywhere comparable to today's wide spread of actual cars, just more common than today's helicopters and small planes.
@@Chedring Low barrier? This thing is not cheap. Cutting edge technology rarely is. And remember that this is a plane and planes have a ton of paper work attached to them. It isn't like throwing together a Tesla car.
24:37 But they can use any skybuilding with helicopterpad. and rent the last floor for passenger until his taxi-fly come. Or reduce cost just the use of helipad on the roof and passenger wait on the street. and go up 5min before VTOL takeoff
I think Joby has the best eVOTL design hands down. They just need to incorporate full automation with automated flight controller for air traffic. They also need to incorporate battery packs, so you can land at a skyport and have machine that can swap the batteries automatically in just a few minutes.
2:13They could have made a craft to land on a drive-way/parking lot, if the propellers could shift or be more front and back only, during the initiative mode. The blades are safely high up. A duct fan implemented could expand new formation ideas. Genuise!
Awesome flying machine! It is in fact a convertiplane, tilt-rotors. But it is not roadable in order to be also a car. And this is an issue if used in cities and populated areas where one has to park such a bulky vehicle between landing and taking-off. So as a flying taxi is great but as a personal vehicle seems quite restrictive.
As it is flying forward the weight of the aircraft and passenger are on the wings... but for vertical take-off and landing the weight of both have to be supported by the bearings in the electric motors.. I would hope that they are very strong
Props for no noise pollution... 12x7 combustion engines in these neighborhoods, one must go inside to not get a headache... can't enjoy the outdoors, all the 2-cycle/small 4-cycle are truly counterproductive
We want one! Can you imagine what the world will be like once these become everyday normal. We are looking forward to that day. We have a space in the back of our RV set aside for when they start making private craft. Thank you for the great video.
We cant trust people to drive cars in a considered way. 6 Exremely dangerous rotors and extreme speed added to the mix? There is no way this will be normalised before we all die, and even then it will be all AI driven for the super rich.
Never gonna happen. Imagine every drunk, aggressive, distracted, and road rager that's on the ground now... up in the air. 46,000 auto deaths per year, and that's for cars that don't fly, or accidents that didn't kill for a ground vehicle but would most certainly kill in the air. It doesn't matter if the tech makes it possible; it's the people aspect that will always prevent flying cars on a large scale.
Never gonna happen. Basically, that's a large scale not remote (but possibly) controlled drone that can lift one or more people, which technically _is_ an aircraft, *not a car !* And we talk about airspace : did you knew above the quarter of a kilogram, you must register your remote controlled drone ? Regulation ! Drones are only allowed to fly in limited airspace. Regulation ! To fly, especially be able to fly over populated areas, even if it's just one person per square kilometer, you need a license. Regulation ! Many billionaires have attempted to put helipad everywhere, started assembling the platform, then dismanteled it, because, you just don't build them where you want the way that suits your needs when you have the means : those things must comply with very precise and restrictive (for safety) conditions, by regulation ! ..... Regulations, regulations, regulations.... and again, regulations, blah blah blah. And regulation is there for one single reason : people *died* when they did not exist, and sure enough, the billionnaire living in the top room of a fancy building don't want trouble or die if some dardevil stupid teenager decided to borrow the "flying car of his dad" to impress his slut by crashing there while violating a couple dozens regulations (yes, it happenned, was not a car but a Cessna, but you get the point : billionnaires don't want dumb people to mess around and they have the means to enforce regulations). Even with regulation, people happily violate them everyday, not everyone can be as disciplined as a pilot, even some pilots aren't that disciplined. The only large scale technology transport that could/would take off and land in your backyard is one that is NOT controlled by YOU, but by some company that has proven it has the expertise to safely move people in the air, ground or over water, and take responsibility is something goes horribly wrong. That's what Tesla is attempting to do, that's what Google is attempting to solve and master at IA level. Til then, there is no way around : airport to airport (not your backyard), valid licenses, submitted and validated flight route, and a bunch of other people giving you instructions you must follow along your entire flight. Yes, the helipad on the rooftop of the hospital _is_ an airport. The helipad behind the White House is an airport. Some highways in Poland/Finland/etc. become "airports", precisely "temporary military strips" in special (crisis) situations. Backyards has to comply with strict conditions to become "private airfields/airports" - regulations again - if you want an airport that close : safety, noise, pollution, airspace integration and conflicts, traffic control, terrain and wheather, aircraft types............... hope you have the means to validate all conditions, but it's pretty clear the _"flying car in the backyard of lambda citizens"_ *is a lie.* Don't dream that much, but I understand how you got there : those people in those documentaries are trying to sell that dream to you and you bought it. None of them is explaining to you you CAN'T have that type of equipment at home, and the trends tells the future will even be tighter in terms of regulations when more people will have access to jet engines and other kind of propellers as they become cheaper.
It will happen but it will be automated flight and there won't be ways for these to crash into each other. You will enter your destination and you will be placed into a highly sophisticated network that will perform ALL functions of the aircraft. I would imagine it would probably be 1500 feet or less and major aircraft would still be doing it's normal thing.
So exciting! As a drone owner I'm wondering if you can use the same perhaps even better. Use satellites and have fly to destination and avoidance of other flying objects too. Once I got my Drone I knew flying vehicles will happen now in my life time. Thanks great video!
Actually, you're close to the real deal : Let's assume I'm 50 years old with no flying skill but I have 2 millions $ to get that toy. Can you trust me flying that thing alone ? Now take the 17 year old spoiled brat that want to impress his crush and decided to borrow the "flying car" of his dad... (this happens hundred times a day in the world, but the car is not a flyable one.. yet) Just think of it : either you can't but have to centralized those vehicles somewhere, that would be an airport, and only qualified licenced pilots with X000 hours of experience are allowed to fly them, not you or me, or, if people are willing to pay the price to fly to and from their backyard, well, the actual pilot, it being human or AI must be centralized in the servers of a company that has the expertise to fly those, not you or me... So, yeah, like today airplanes (believe it or not), _they will use satellites aswell, and have fly to destination and avoidance of other flying objects too,_ meaning, unless having passed the courses, trainings and tests, with the proper licences and the clearances, neither you or me would be able to "manually fly" the thing, we are just passengers...
They just gave another name to the combination of helicopter + plane, this one being silent when is flighting, but unable to walk through ordinary streets.
Of all the eVtol projects out there, I think the designs with real wings for forward flight might be commercially viable, vs the scaled up quad copter drone clones
Great story and video. Thanks for bring this to our attention. Kristen, did you get the feeling this product was being over sold? That there presentation was manufactured to look better for the interview?
Perhaps, the fuel cells will be created for larger planes, larger JOBY'S and/or large boats/trains. The battery is sufficient for 150 mile flight. This is just the beginning journey for JOBY, stock is cheap too.
Have a 3 questions: 1. what are the weight limits (personal/cargo)? 2. Giving the current test flight what is the estimated time to go commercial? Finally, 3. All the props pull the aircaft... was there any analysis done as to have the props push the aircaft? Thanks for the feedback! I like the design and projected spects....
1. No answers yet : those cannot be defined before the mandatory modifications to comply with *regulations,* safety-wise, like the need to have realistic solutions in case of emergency, like a flock of birds strike and loss of control : will the presence of a chute mandatory on that type of vehicle ? That's just one example among hundreds. Til then, there is no reliable payload weight information. 2. Commercial debut will take place when the vehicle, manufacturer, various public management organizations (...) are ready, with the proper qualifications/licenses/authorities, means and tools : How we do, together, for that thing in the hand of anyone doesn't kill anyone or do property damages. 3. Yes : because they tilt to allow V/STOL, having the props near the ground is a bad design : you have less bank/pitch guard, not good on take off/landing. When spinning, those fans are invisible, so pretty sure some ignorant will walk right through. You have the fan under the engine, on a multi parts design, you have to unmount the fan first, then unmount the engine to change it; better have the fans above the engines so you have direct access to the engine during maintainance. Pushers doesn't provide any advantage over pullers unless the design constraints directly favors it, like a better vision, shorter fuel pipes that also makes them lighter, eventually, a center of gravity requirement driven by the type of wing. Also, for sustainable V/STOL manoevers, fans way above the CG is more stable and less subject to complex computer assisted systems to compensate. That's only a few reasons, there are many more...
@@StephenKarl_Integral one pilot and four passengers and luggage per JOBY. I never read anything about weight limits yet, I'll need to ask JOBY at next investor conference. The goal is Autonomous, then no need for expensive pilot by 2030. JOBY is one of the few Evtol's who has a pilot first, then autonooumous by 2030 per the experts/FAA. . Most other comp is going ONLY autonomous by 2030, thus left behind JOBY.
@@MC-yb5le That's what I answered to someone who wrote something like _"I need one, my personal flying car, haha"._ There is no such thing as maneuvering something weighting more than 10 kilograms above people (children) and infrastructures, and you, the pilot has no license or special authorization/qualification. If you fly over populated areas, you must be trained and some authority assessed your ability to CARE about others below and in the air, to not injure or kill anyone or do damage to properties. You must be qualified to manage emergencies, follow directive, have health discipline... So, EITHER the thing goes the road of COSTY licensed pilots, OR the vehicle is UNMANNED, and piloting is realtime computer/AI driven, centralized in some company, like Tesla. If someone dream of manning that vehicle someday, he/she has to be a pilot then, with all what that responsibility requires including having passed all the trainings and tests for the licenses : that's not free or it gets included/diluted in the (rather high) price of the vehicle. Also, how about preflight maintainance check? With 6 engines. You do it aswell (more qualification required) or you pay guys to come to your home before each flight? I'm the _"have some realism/common sense"_ type. I'm not impressed by how many people it boards or how quiet it is, I'm interested to assess how practical and cost effective it can eventually get, as an owner, how much it would cost me, how much trouble or effort I have to swallow to be able/allowed to operate it..? As the manufacturer, what business model is realistic? Should I license pilots or get rid of the concern by getting "pilot" out of the equation, ie, go AI ? As a citizen in residential area below a traffic path of those vehicles, what "peace of mind" am I ready to concede to allow other people to use that vehicle over my house? That's the kind of concern regulation authorities have, because when a crash happens (and it WILL happen), I will be in charge of judging if that vehicle is dangerous or not, and if it is, technically, I'll kill companies, services, people will lose money and their jobs, other people will lose their dream... BEFORE all that happens, I must closely assist the manufacturers and come up with a list of road map and compromises...... The certification process is based on historical occurrence of dramas, and it gets tighter over the decades, not the other way around. Realism is to take it seriously.
How many passengers can fly in this airplane? I suspect it might be for two or three persons. It would have been interesting to know about the sound level in the craft. Anyway, we had a great view of the blades in action, mesmerizing! I hope that this flying creation becomes more popular. Leonardo Da Vinci would be happy to see this!
It will work with just 2 out of 6 propeller working in an emergency. But never that situation in a well maintained craft, worst situation only one may have a short circuit breakdown. Drones with more than 3 propeller is very safe and stable, can be optimal to save battery life for a long flight.
My concern would be so many moving parts to have to maintain. Considering how much it costs to maintain a regular small privately owned airplane, which typically has one or maybe 2 engines, (costs thousands of dollars a year in regular maintenance,) your vehicle with so many more engines, could have very much higher maintenance cost. Also, because of its overall size, the space required to shelter it, would be substantial, and not something an urban environment would accommodate space wise. So, you'd have to travel to your parking location via conventional means, which to me, seems just an added expense and time consideration. There may be other technologies available to reduce the overall size as well as fuel considerations. (batteries are very heavy for the amount of energy/fuel they provide.) Thinking outside the box, consider anti-gravity technology, and the like which can be fueled by zero point energy. To invest in something like the vehicle you have proto typed doesn't have a practical long term future because even though it seems to be ahead of the curve, it is ahead of the curve on old technology, which will eventually be replaced. So investments in R & D don't have the potential for substantial returns say 5 years down the road.
And how does it fly with people onboard? II didn't see any payload/proxy weight .... as you load the props the sound produced will increase... if there is no load on them then I would expoect about half the db....what is your net vs gross ? And battery is...? range at gross? so many questions, and the y really do matter. As shown , you have a lightly loaded drone... your control solutions seem great instable forward and stationary... how do you go with turbulance ? and aysmetric load?
This is super interesting. In so easy to fly compared to Helicopter. I’m a private pilot and the ability to take off vertically and land vertically would just be awesome. Of course helicopters can do that but they’re very loud and very expensive. And the difficult to fly.
Such a great engineering and development model. What's even more credible is that they were taken seriously and moved quickly into full scale proof of concept and certification.
The Army and NASA has shown interest, and have supported in the ultimate stealth flying machine!
Unprecedented access to Joby!! That was fantastic!
Practically geniuses. This should've been implemented before or during hand drones were offered. Those fear of evtol days, are over.
@@rolflandale2565the Public fear still exists, for example if you read comments on other sites, people go off on every negative possible. The pessimistic say JOBY will be too dangerous, we already have Helicopters, we don't need eVTOL's, high wind will cause crashes, first crash with injury or death will end this dream, will be too expensive to fly, I'll never fly in one or a pilotless one, where will they land, FAA won't allow, too much competition, won't every happen, and on and on.
I disagree with all the pessimism, I am a big JOBY fan. My brother is an expert pilot, he was skeptical at first, then realized, buy buy buy stock or regret at these levels. He admitted he started to buy into a position, a duh moment.
We only get a few chances in life to hit a stock large, and this is one, could be a huge success, if you have patience.
@M C Helicopters lack the counter redundancy of multi-engine support. When you compare the dangers of a car and the cruise methods of aircraft, both have a chance of survival with initiative actions. If a classic mono-engine helicopter malfunctions, it will plunge like a rock. The helicopter casualties have a very high death ratio. From famous celebrities to most practical pilots with absolute manual navigation. Jobby has a lot of bureaucracy in structure rendering, but the price is to apply safety.
@@MC-yb5le You should know that, the FAA never allows aircrafts to run until almost a decade test is done, some are lucky its sooner than that.
@@rolflandale2565 FAA will fast track the certification of Joby and Archer --- they know these aircraft are safe because of redundancy
This was by far the most interesting coverage of Joby that I have seen.
They could have cut the engine on chase aircraft.
OMG! Kirsten i can't thank you enough for such a detailed comprehensive video on Joby and its progress! THANK YOU!
Glad it was helpful!
What a waste of time and energy! Just imagine the skies plugged with this stuff ; all beteen 50 and150 feet elevation!!!? What a train wreck waiting to happen! Probably another Federal Funded project! A crony capitalist funded project !😆😡
@@paulratzlaff2935 All personal opinions welcomed! Thank you!
Thoroughly impressed with just how quiet and SMOOTH that craft is....amazed!
Why do you know how quiet it is
Best eVTOL yet. Addresses the biggest concern. .. noise.
I almost thought Joby was just a shady business. Thnx for showing this vid. It’s great it actually exists
Thousands of us own JOBY stock, not a con man, reel deal. Don't miss out.
Did my streams just merge? I am subscribed to the tech-channels and to the home-building channels but now this video crosses the boundaries!
This was the most comprehensive coverage of the project I have seem. 👍
Whoa.. the longer the video went, the more you could see what a serious business with serious funding this is. Amazing stuff!
I’d like to see a test situation with one rotor out of sync due to mechanical failure, to see how the remaining rotors maintain stable flight. It has to be done eventually. 👍 Cool prototype.
yes, if it is possible to fly with 2/6 damaged or more and they are all independent then it would be pretty safe
@@martinuso7446 I doubt that would ever happen though.
with multiple electric motors, all of which can be controlled independently, if a motor is not performing correctly it can be shutdown & remaining motors receive more power to compensate. Having wing like structures also allows for added lift/glide as opposed to "auto rotating" (aka crashing - falling like a rock) in a traditional helicopter. With six motors as long as if four remain operational this should allow for a controlled landing.
Let's try to remember that battery packs can also be redundant --- so in order for a catastrophic failure and crash, this aircraft would need more than two rotors to fail as well as multiple battery packs --- literally close to zero chance!
Great video! Love how you were able to safely take off, fly and land the Joby safely with minimal coaching. Great semi-autoflight programming of a complex dynamic system. Brilliant!
I have a lifetime of experience building model planes and doing composites for aerospace and the Joby is by far the best and most advanced eVTOL. For a while they were right down the road from me here in Redwood City before moving out of the old Miracle Auto painting shop and into a larger space when they got the funding. This is by far the best eVTOL video on Utube! Thanks Joby and good liuck.
Wow, I have subscription to like 10 different eVTOL channels, but somehow I've missed Joby, subscribed now! thanks
I was privileged to work for one of the first non-Government businesses to work with pre-preg carbon fiber. The company built light weight large racing sailboats, IACC and AC boats. I started on the first in 1990. The boats we built won a lot of races. Now the tech is everywhere. It is very cool to see the advances. One of the other companies nearby made spars - they had an autoclave, we weren't allowed to use one.
I really love how quiet it is. None of that energy wasted in making droning noise.
That thing is amazing!! Hopefully battery tech will take the leap and and put an end to 100LL finally
Anything is quiet if you recorded it 300ft away...
It’s an osprey
@@Helloverlord they showed different sound signature of various aircraft’s at the same distance and mentioned that this thing is below 70dB at lift off
What is the sound power at take off compared to helicopters or planes ? How does it match the WHO requirements in the envrironment (55 dB Lden) ? The 65 dB commented in the video does not mean anything : is it pressure ? Where with respect to the source ? Envisioning this kind of things closer to densely populated area than current aircraft will certainly come with noise pollution issue and sorry but the only comparison is in fly by for which you are comparing to non noise regulated aircraft - being « quieter » than unregulated source does not mean anything (apart from the fact that there is indeed a huge noise issue with those objects)
Happy Holidays and Thank You for all of the great videos.
Amazing work from Joby Aviation, it's definitely a good step into the future⚡.
Kirsten, your husband is way more intelligent than he lets on 😉
Thanks for this awesome clip. Totally different but so totally cool and definitely not out of place on your channel.
I have to say that out of all the channels I've subscribed to the video editing;almost seamless cinematic transitions; perfect flow of narration..... Perfectly shared capture of both your husband's voice and your voice on the 1 clip is just perfect 👌
By far the most improved channel of all my subscriptions.
The improvement has felt organic and natural progression. Well done!
Two terrific minds in harness.
Thank you! I agree that my husband definitely has a more in-depth knowledge of most topics than I (he really does love reading about nearly any topic). Thank you for your comments on the editing. It's very labor intensive so appreciate when people notice.
Totally agree!
Very cool. I like how quiet it is.
That's always been a big criticism I have had with these flying electric vehicles, most of them are super-noisy. I am glad noise pollution was key in the design of this very complex vehicle. The tilting rotors are a marvel of engineering. I hope the mechanics are reliable. The Osprey used by the US Military, and uses a titling rotor mechanism, has massive reliability issues with the tilt mechanisms. Thanks for covering this company!
Much quieter than I thought, well done. It needs some distance to houses because of the air turbulences it generates, but there will be enough use cases intercity for such an airplane.
WOW i watched you for tiny homes, never expected you to do a video like this!
We are living in some incredible times. I am SO excited to see what we do over the next two decades with tech!
I can’t wait until we rapidly surpass electric motors and get into plasma propulsion
If i could choose, i woud take the cure for cancer and solution to the hunger problem over any electric car.
Indeed!
@@xargs0095 as long as their battery and other material production and disposal are safe
@@jareknowak8712 that one seems harder, if you feed people they reproduce more and then there are 2x, 3x,.. the amount of people with hunger
This is AMAZING! Perfect combination of drone and airplane!
this is the first evtol that actually looks like it might make any sense whatsoever. hitting the nail on the head with the noise pollution concerns, everyone says they want flying cars or a helipad in their back yard, until they have to live with the noise. 6 rotors for redundancy in motor failure in a hover, and manual elevator and ailerons for total power loss landings from forward flight. it will be interesting to see if they can get it certified.
Great to see their progress. Joby could be the Telsa of the skies in a few years.
Is there any protection from an emp burst from the sun?
Solar flares have been known to knock out electrical components.
This is an amazing aircraft, btw.
Hosts are clearly not technically literate about anything aviation, so asking mostly irrelevant questions but nice to see the facilities and prototypes
Nice 👍The noise isn’t as loud as I’ve expected. Very nice 👍
I imagine it is really louder in person?
Where have you seen it to say that?
Mind blown thank you. What a treat to see everything behind the scenes. So many competent, knowlegeable and hard working human beings. AWESOME
Our pleasure!
People ridicule when I say this is about to explode. Maybe they majored in physics or whatever but I'm telling you they are going to make this thing explode. They have tech you never heard of and this is obviously the plan.
Great video despite some rather newbie interviewing questions!
I can see the use for this in scenic tours maybe for looking at glaciers and famous city scapes where you don’t want to disturb the people with too much noise. Very cool I like that it’s quiet.
Hahaha, obviously you rarely visit or live in a congested city, for example: LA, NY, Dallas, Washington DC, Mexico City, Tokyo, South Korea and 100's of other congested cities across the world, each city named has a never ending growth with gridlock traffic.
Joby will work in all types of scenarios. Delta airlines/JOBY are working together in the future to bring customers directly to the airport, then fly wherever. Delta realizes JOBY is changing the game, save more time for fun/work vs wasting time driving in gridlock traffic.
I agree, JOBY will be a great addition to Tourists, moving tourists or workers between islands for example:Belize, Hawaii, Vancouver island, Indonesia to name a few of the 1000's of tourists spots in the world where JOBY can be a vital transportation and learning tool.
Really liking their approach to building this. Low profile without a bunch of hype - and getting it done!
However, the real fun is only starting, how to build 25, 50, and 100 JOBY's a year will be a monumental task.
Main reason Toyota partnered early to help and refine the JOBY building process. Joby will need to build 1000's to crush the competition, who is late to the party, and/or years behind.
@@MC-yb5le do not doubt the power of scaled manufacturing with Toyota's expertise --- Joby definitely found the right partner
Wow, what a place to work !!!
A dream come true for any engineer!
First class all the way guys 👍
Need a solidworks guy 😂
6:22
"...because the last thing that we need is just another buzzing thing."
This got a laugh out of me. What a good way to put it!
What does that thing cost ?
Argh, not another pod gadgetbahn company that wants to build something like a train but not as good as a train.
This is great. I've always been suspicious of VTOL transport videos that don't show you how loud they are. That's the thing that will determine if they're allowed in cities close enough to populated areas to be useful for their intended role.
A remote quad drone less than a kilogram is subject to a bunch of regulations most people aren't aware of. People are hyped by the positive potential exclusively, they always forget about the 80% other important things : safety, qualifications, infrastructure, regulation of shared space, maintainance and spare parts/qualified vendors and contractors, tested and validated overall systems, operation and management........
At the end of the day (or the decade), it always all come down to what people didn't expect : the operational constraints doesn't meet lambda people expectations in terms of costs or complications, only a few elite will have access to the privilege or service, sometiles via costy dérogation or because you're a billionaire authorities may have trouble challenging. I don't even have a licence to fly an ultralight on my own from an airfield (we steal the flying time of a qualified pilot) and I have a thousand times the knowledge a lambda anyont have in terms of flying and rules/regulation, I know how sensible of a qualification it is, I cannot trust putting any of that very advanced tech vehicles in the hands of the first _"oh gosh it's so dope, I also want a flying car"_ dude : that's a recipe for disaster and drama. If people are regularly going down the road to change the chips of a drone toy to exceed the built-in altitude limitation by regulation, what kind of stupid rules breaking they would intentionally or inadvertently do with a "flying car"? Sharing airspace with people and properties below is the opposite of "having fun", you do care about at all times and abide by the rules, there is NO WAY you decide where you go, just like medevac ops today, you wait for instructions (air traffic control) and you strictly follows virtually already defined limited set of flight routes. We don't want that thing flying over schools or other areas with dense flocks of people walking, there must be regular suitable emergency crash land sites along the routes, like a stadium, highways, corn fields...
The only "your fancy extraordinary personal car" that may find birth in a city is the one that meets all those conditions, like Tesla autopilot where a connected centralized service decides how to drive the car. For a flying car, it will be the same : you're not the one to have command, you just input a destination, then the company owning the service flies you there on through defined standardized flight paths and standardized connected "other fellow air travellers in nearby vehicles". That way, we get lambda people out of the equation in terms of training/qualification, and we get all vehicles standardized in terms of regulations, flight rules and behavior. Or else, no personal car, you go to a flying taxi port and you rent the service with a fully qualified trained pilot that will do his best to get you to another port/other places with special derogatory privileges, but he/she remains who has the last word.
Hope this helps you have a better window displaying what will slowly take place in the future, so you don't build the wrong expectations from the start..
@@StephenKarl_Integral woah, well explained sir
This is so amazing!
I'm looking forward to calling a sky cab.
I cant wait to pay 250$ to fly 4 min away!!!
Wow. That reeks of ingenuity and foresight. Really well filmed and documented. It's odd that this effort has not gotten more attention from the aviation press . . . or maybe I've somehow missed it. Amazing amount of development has gone into this project. Really smart people.
You've missed out, PBS showed a documentary on The Future of Electric flight 3 years ago. I've followed JOBY since, actually i buy every time the stock goes under $4, no regrets.
Ref minute 7:32 The size of the windshield and the windows are wide enough. That large cavity is the entry point for HIRF. I wonder if Joby has performed HIRF system test in a Lab. SAE ARP 5583A HIRF Environment might need to be updated to accomodate VTOL operation in urban area, in cities with large number of RF transmitter, in area surrounding Vertiport and in area where have many building that could induce RF reflection. In addition when propellers were tilt, there will be another HIRF threat through cavity (hollow) near Inverter nacelle.
Really like the high/new tech content 👍👍👍
There are so many things that come to mind. What about safety? Can it glide and land as a normal airplane would. What happens when one or two propellers fail? Will it fly on it's own? The future is so exciting. Love this video Kirsten, very well done. I would like to see more of this company. Go go.
So cool to see Kirsten Dirksen doing a piece on Joby!
It seems to have variable pitch props. This is not common and although increases complexity, it should be smoother in the the hover and faster in forward flight. Reaction time of hover flight controls is much faster like this .. Very interesting
Nicely vertically integrated!
FWIW "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (2006).
Best tangent video ever. The future is amazing.
The military would love this thing as a small insertion vehicle for small units. Areas that have a lot of islands would be great too. Thing is, it needs to seat 5-7 people, or else it won't replace anything that a helicopter can do.
sooooo an Osprey?
It will be a fraction of the cost to run, and quiet, win win.
_"it needs to seat 5-7 people..."_
I'm not an engineer, but I'm aware the huge problem of electric flying things is _"not having enough battery to maintain that thing flying for hours _*_the heavier it gets"_*
Unlike fossil energy that packs a lot of punch for a small drop of toxic fuel, electricity is like blowing a sheet of paper to maintain it airborne, so, how many people lungs and mouth do you need to maintain a book airborne ? The answer for electric aircraft is... just like airplanes : if you want to lift heavier mass, forget about V/STOL, you need a runway and trade time+distance for potential energy to be converted to lift via wings.
Absolutely fascinating. I cant wait to see this kind of tech reach commercial fruition.
This thing is next level! What an achievement!
It looks like the Aptera with rotors, great video
Jist wondering if the charging/ fuel aspect was compared....
Also maintenence and materials used in the building of each would also be another noteworthy point.
It's an elaborate helicopter, nothing resembles a car.
Closer to an Osprey military plane.
Yes ! Exactly my first thought, thanks for pointing it out. I believe the Robinson R-22 would be a little smaller when I look at the wingspan (+ fans), and from my experience in drones (quad), losing one engine is quite dramatic (immediate loss of control due to assymetry), nowhere near the "chill" you feel when you have power loss on an R-22, you maintain level and you can autorotate if you're high enough.
Very little in common wirh a conventional helicopter nearer to a large rc model aircraft/drone.
They are always helicopters with extra steps
Yes it does it has three wheels like a Robin Reliant 😂
Fantastic job ❤ in 1928 Nikola Tesla patented this technology with out aeronautical knowledge.
The Joby is a great tribute to invention. With ADS-B in its early stages will allow this to become a great addition to the sky’s HOPE TO SEE YOU AT EAA AIRVENTURE the world 🌎 needs to see this.
Prosit Kirsten
Keep the blue side up ⬆️
Go Joby! Whispering comfort and speed❤
Thank you, Kirsten, great film. This crossover is a welcome, natural extension on the theme of sustainability, shared throughout your work, and is, most certainly inspiring.
Flying 'cars' won't happen in the sense that any shmuck can get a license like for a car and start flying around. You'd need a pilots license which is much harder to get and more expensive to boot. This is a GOOD thing. The last thing we need is the average joe driver who can't stay on the road to be flying into people's second story apartment.
These are cool concepts, like the Jetson One or drones being ridden on. But they also open up a lot of dangerous doors when they get cheap and accessible.
Edit: This can already be seen with rich people flying around and crash landing like Harrison Ford (and he's a seasoned pilot lol)/
Bad comparison with the HF reference. Surprised you didn’t bring up John Denver too :(
@@blueman5924 Don't know him, but he does fit better as a comparison opon a quick look. I'll admit I want one of these too. But just because I want something doesn't mean I should have it, and a low barrier to entry flying machine is one of them. At least paragliders won't cause as much damage as a small plane.
They are planning for it to become autonomous at some point in the future to make it cheaper and more accessible without causing those problems. Autonomous flight with predefined paths and landing points would probably be easier to develop than autonomous driving, since the sky is much more spacious than streets, there aren't any level cross-roads or t-junctions in the sky, and cyclists/pedestrians won't appear out of nowhere. Still won't be anywhere comparable to today's wide spread of actual cars, just more common than today's helicopters and small planes.
How about self driven planes? Oh, yeah!
@@Chedring Low barrier? This thing is not cheap. Cutting edge technology rarely is. And remember that this is a plane and planes have a ton of paper work attached to them. It isn't like throwing together a Tesla car.
24:37 But they can use any skybuilding with helicopterpad. and rent the last floor for passenger until his taxi-fly come. Or reduce cost just the use of helipad on the roof and passenger wait on the street. and go up 5min before VTOL takeoff
I think Joby has the best eVOTL design hands down. They just need to incorporate full automation with automated flight controller for air traffic. They also need to incorporate battery packs, so you can land at a skyport and have machine that can swap the batteries automatically in just a few minutes.
"It is a textile basically." I love these bits.
Very Exciting, well explained, I enjoyed this very much.
2:13They could have made a craft to land on a drive-way/parking lot, if the propellers could shift or be more front and back only, during the initiative mode. The blades are safely high up. A duct fan implemented could expand new formation ideas. Genuise!
Awesome flying machine! It is in fact a convertiplane, tilt-rotors. But it is not roadable in order to be also a car. And this is an issue if used in cities and populated areas where one has to park such a bulky vehicle between landing and taking-off. So as a flying taxi is great but as a personal vehicle seems quite restrictive.
The Jetsons have finally arrived!!
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Jane, get me outa this crazy thing!
I mean, this thing come easily just pull out of your garage and go.
I mean this thing could easily just pull out of your garage and go... 🙄
Incredible! Thank you for sharing.
Great video! What a nightmare for those workers doing hand lamination. I hope they are paid well.
As it is flying forward the weight of the aircraft and passenger are on the wings... but for vertical take-off and landing the weight of both have to be supported by the bearings in the electric motors.. I would hope that they are very strong
Very interesting, Kirsten and Nicolás. ✨
Thank you K.
Good morning great job guys and girls keep up the great job 👌✌️
Extremely impressed, this is the future, good luck, hard to see how this can fail.
One of the best designs I have seen. The quietness speaks to its efficiency.
9:04 TGV in france can go at that speed. The only point is can go in straight line but at what cost.
But i like see new option overthere.
Props for no noise pollution... 12x7 combustion engines in these neighborhoods, one must go inside to not get a headache... can't enjoy the outdoors, all the 2-cycle/small 4-cycle are truly counterproductive
Beautifully informative video, and well shot! Thank you for that.
We want one! Can you imagine what the world will be like once these become everyday normal. We are looking forward to that day. We have a space in the back of our RV set aside for when they start making private craft. Thank you for the great video.
We cant trust people to drive cars in a considered way. 6 Exremely dangerous rotors and extreme speed added to the mix? There is no way this will be normalised before we all die, and even then it will be all AI driven for the super rich.
Never gonna happen. Imagine every drunk, aggressive, distracted, and road rager that's on the ground now... up in the air. 46,000 auto deaths per year, and that's for cars that don't fly, or accidents that didn't kill for a ground vehicle but would most certainly kill in the air. It doesn't matter if the tech makes it possible; it's the people aspect that will always prevent flying cars on a large scale.
Never gonna happen. Basically, that's a large scale not remote (but possibly) controlled drone that can lift one or more people, which technically _is_ an aircraft, *not a car !* And we talk about airspace : did you knew above the quarter of a kilogram, you must register your remote controlled drone ? Regulation ! Drones are only allowed to fly in limited airspace. Regulation ! To fly, especially be able to fly over populated areas, even if it's just one person per square kilometer, you need a license. Regulation ! Many billionaires have attempted to put helipad everywhere, started assembling the platform, then dismanteled it, because, you just don't build them where you want the way that suits your needs when you have the means : those things must comply with very precise and restrictive (for safety) conditions, by regulation ! ..... Regulations, regulations, regulations.... and again, regulations, blah blah blah.
And regulation is there for one single reason : people *died* when they did not exist, and sure enough, the billionnaire living in the top room of a fancy building don't want trouble or die if some dardevil stupid teenager decided to borrow the "flying car of his dad" to impress his slut by crashing there while violating a couple dozens regulations (yes, it happenned, was not a car but a Cessna, but you get the point : billionnaires don't want dumb people to mess around and they have the means to enforce regulations).
Even with regulation, people happily violate them everyday, not everyone can be as disciplined as a pilot, even some pilots aren't that disciplined.
The only large scale technology transport that could/would take off and land in your backyard is one that is NOT controlled by YOU, but by some company that has proven it has the expertise to safely move people in the air, ground or over water, and take responsibility is something goes horribly wrong. That's what Tesla is attempting to do, that's what Google is attempting to solve and master at IA level. Til then, there is no way around : airport to airport (not your backyard), valid licenses, submitted and validated flight route, and a bunch of other people giving you instructions you must follow along your entire flight. Yes, the helipad on the rooftop of the hospital _is_ an airport. The helipad behind the White House is an airport. Some highways in Poland/Finland/etc. become "airports", precisely "temporary military strips" in special (crisis) situations. Backyards has to comply with strict conditions to become "private airfields/airports" - regulations again - if you want an airport that close : safety, noise, pollution, airspace integration and conflicts, traffic control, terrain and wheather, aircraft types............... hope you have the means to validate all conditions, but it's pretty clear the _"flying car in the backyard of lambda citizens"_ *is a lie.*
Don't dream that much, but I understand how you got there : those people in those documentaries are trying to sell that dream to you and you bought it. None of them is explaining to you you CAN'T have that type of equipment at home, and the trends tells the future will even be tighter in terms of regulations when more people will have access to jet engines and other kind of propellers as they become cheaper.
It will happen but it will be automated flight and there won't be ways for these to crash into each other. You will enter your destination and you will be placed into a highly sophisticated network that will perform ALL functions of the aircraft. I would imagine it would probably be 1500 feet or less and major aircraft would still be doing it's normal thing.
@@StephenKarl_Integral slut? Really? How about pig.
So exciting! As a drone owner I'm wondering if you can use the same perhaps even better. Use satellites and have fly to destination and avoidance of other flying objects too. Once I got my Drone I knew flying vehicles will happen now in my life time. Thanks great video!
Actually, you're close to the real deal : Let's assume I'm 50 years old with no flying skill but I have 2 millions $ to get that toy. Can you trust me flying that thing alone ? Now take the 17 year old spoiled brat that want to impress his crush and decided to borrow the "flying car" of his dad... (this happens hundred times a day in the world, but the car is not a flyable one.. yet)
Just think of it : either you can't but have to centralized those vehicles somewhere, that would be an airport, and only qualified licenced pilots with X000 hours of experience are allowed to fly them, not you or me, or, if people are willing to pay the price to fly to and from their backyard, well, the actual pilot, it being human or AI must be centralized in the servers of a company that has the expertise to fly those, not you or me...
So, yeah, like today airplanes (believe it or not), _they will use satellites aswell, and have fly to destination and avoidance of other flying objects too,_ meaning, unless having passed the courses, trainings and tests, with the proper licences and the clearances, neither you or me would be able to "manually fly" the thing, we are just passengers...
Can it take off horizontally to save power?
They just gave another name to the combination of helicopter + plane, this one being silent when is flighting, but unable to walk through ordinary streets.
Of all the eVtol projects out there, I think the designs with real wings for forward flight might be commercially viable, vs the scaled up quad copter drone clones
I'd still like to see a parachute system on it as well. Two levels of safety is great but a third is even better.
Great story and video. Thanks for bring this to our attention. Kristen, did you get the feeling this product was being over sold? That there presentation was manufactured to look better for the interview?
Most amazing part to me is how quiet it is. Curious is a fuel cell Version will be available at some point
Perhaps, the fuel cells will be created for larger planes, larger JOBY'S and/or large boats/trains.
The battery is sufficient for 150 mile flight.
This is just the beginning journey for JOBY, stock is cheap too.
Super impressive! Definitely a scoop 🙂
Have a 3 questions: 1. what are the weight limits (personal/cargo)? 2. Giving the current test flight what is the estimated time to go commercial? Finally, 3. All the props pull the aircaft... was there any analysis done as to have the props push the aircaft?
Thanks for the feedback! I like the design and projected spects....
1. No answers yet : those cannot be defined before the mandatory modifications to comply with *regulations,* safety-wise, like the need to have realistic solutions in case of emergency, like a flock of birds strike and loss of control : will the presence of a chute mandatory on that type of vehicle ? That's just one example among hundreds. Til then, there is no reliable payload weight information.
2. Commercial debut will take place when the vehicle, manufacturer, various public management organizations (...) are ready, with the proper qualifications/licenses/authorities, means and tools : How we do, together, for that thing in the hand of anyone doesn't kill anyone or do property damages.
3. Yes : because they tilt to allow V/STOL, having the props near the ground is a bad design : you have less bank/pitch guard, not good on take off/landing. When spinning, those fans are invisible, so pretty sure some ignorant will walk right through. You have the fan under the engine, on a multi parts design, you have to unmount the fan first, then unmount the engine to change it; better have the fans above the engines so you have direct access to the engine during maintainance. Pushers doesn't provide any advantage over pullers unless the design constraints directly favors it, like a better vision, shorter fuel pipes that also makes them lighter, eventually, a center of gravity requirement driven by the type of wing. Also, for sustainable V/STOL manoevers, fans way above the CG is more stable and less subject to complex computer assisted systems to compensate. That's only a few reasons, there are many more...
@@StephenKarl_Integral one pilot and four passengers and luggage per JOBY. I never read anything about weight limits yet, I'll
need to ask JOBY at next investor conference.
The goal is Autonomous, then no need for expensive pilot by 2030. JOBY is one of the few Evtol's who has a pilot first, then autonooumous by 2030 per the experts/FAA.
. Most other comp is going ONLY autonomous by 2030, thus left behind JOBY.
@@MC-yb5le That's what I answered to someone who wrote something like _"I need one, my personal flying car, haha"._
There is no such thing as maneuvering something weighting more than 10 kilograms above people (children) and infrastructures, and you, the pilot has no license or special authorization/qualification. If you fly over populated areas, you must be trained and some authority assessed your ability to CARE about others below and in the air, to not injure or kill anyone or do damage to properties. You must be qualified to manage emergencies, follow directive, have health discipline...
So, EITHER the thing goes the road of COSTY licensed pilots, OR the vehicle is UNMANNED, and piloting is realtime computer/AI driven, centralized in some company, like Tesla. If someone dream of manning that vehicle someday, he/she has to be a pilot then, with all what that responsibility requires including having passed all the trainings and tests for the licenses : that's not free or it gets included/diluted in the (rather high) price of the vehicle.
Also, how about preflight maintainance check? With 6 engines. You do it aswell (more qualification required) or you pay guys to come to your home before each flight?
I'm the _"have some realism/common sense"_ type. I'm not impressed by how many people it boards or how quiet it is, I'm interested to assess how practical and cost effective it can eventually get, as an owner, how much it would cost me, how much trouble or effort I have to swallow to be able/allowed to operate it..? As the manufacturer, what business model is realistic? Should I license pilots or get rid of the concern by getting "pilot" out of the equation, ie, go AI ? As a citizen in residential area below a traffic path of those vehicles, what "peace of mind" am I ready to concede to allow other people to use that vehicle over my house? That's the kind of concern regulation authorities have, because when a crash happens (and it WILL happen), I will be in charge of judging if that vehicle is dangerous or not, and if it is, technically, I'll kill companies, services, people will lose money and their jobs, other people will lose their dream... BEFORE all that happens, I must closely assist the manufacturers and come up with a list of road map and compromises...... The certification process is based on historical occurrence of dramas, and it gets tighter over the decades, not the other way around. Realism is to take it seriously.
So these are helicopters with 4 sets of propellors?
I never knew Tom Green was so good at making electric helicopters
How many passengers can fly in this airplane? I suspect it might be for two or three persons. It would have been interesting to know about the sound level in the craft. Anyway, we had a great view of the blades in action, mesmerizing! I hope that this flying creation becomes more popular. Leonardo Da Vinci would be happy to see this!
Wow!! I want one
It will work with just 2 out of 6 propeller working in an emergency. But never that situation in a well maintained craft, worst situation only one may have a short circuit breakdown.
Drones with more than 3 propeller is very safe and stable, can be optimal to save battery life for a long flight.
this is for sure going to be the future
If. it is we're going to need a LOT bigger parking lots.
@Miraak Imagine trying to get that thing into multi-level parking!
My concern would be so many moving parts to have to maintain. Considering how much it costs to maintain a regular small privately owned airplane, which typically has one or maybe 2 engines, (costs thousands of dollars a year in regular maintenance,) your vehicle with so many more engines, could have very much higher maintenance cost. Also, because of its overall size, the space required to shelter it, would be substantial, and not something an urban environment would accommodate space wise. So, you'd have to travel to your parking location via conventional means, which to me, seems just an added expense and time consideration.
There may be other technologies available to reduce the overall size as well as fuel considerations. (batteries are very heavy for the amount of energy/fuel they provide.) Thinking outside the box, consider anti-gravity technology, and the like which can be fueled by zero point energy.
To invest in something like the vehicle you have proto typed doesn't have a practical long term future because even though it seems to be ahead of the curve, it is ahead of the curve on old technology, which will eventually be replaced. So investments in R & D don't have the potential for substantial returns say 5 years down the road.
I will put in drive way for sure, can't wait no more traffic jams!!
And how does it fly with people onboard? II didn't see any payload/proxy weight .... as you load the props the sound produced will increase... if there is no load on them then I would expoect about half the db....what is your net vs gross ? And battery is...? range at gross? so many questions, and the y really do matter. As shown , you have a lightly loaded drone... your control solutions seem great instable forward and stationary... how do you go with turbulance ? and aysmetric load?
Lake Tahoe or Aspen? Excellent Cali Arizona, Utah, and UAE aircraft. Nice work!
That looks awesome
Yes but when will we see first manned flight? It’s bout time for that now
Was that an Ercoupe at 1:55?
Wow. Well done. Thanks for the video. Good job. Good people
Awesome Tech Vtol.
This is super interesting. In so easy to fly compared to Helicopter. I’m a private pilot and the ability to take off vertically and land vertically would just be awesome. Of course helicopters can do that but they’re very loud and very expensive. And the difficult to fly.