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  • 1 month ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Paul Brinkmann

    Company offers more details on last month's first piloted transition For years, Joby Aviation chief test pilot James “Buddy” Denham has remotely flown the company’s S4 electric air taxi prototypes, watching the unoccupied aircraft soar overhead and grow quieter as they made a full transition from vertical takeoff to forward flight, in which lift is provided entirely by the aerodynamic forces on the wings.

  • 2 months ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Paul Brinkmann

    Company targeting end of 2026 for certification of conventional-takeoff-and-landing variant SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — The brightly lit manufacturing floor in front of me hummed with the sounds of machinery and worker activity. The focus of all this attention? Various yellow-green-coated aluminum and dark gray carbon fiber composite components that will, once assembled, form three electric aircraft.

  • 2 months ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Paul Brinkmann

    Some 1,200 students from 14 countries participated TUCSON, Ariz. — The team from FH Joanneum in Austria won the 29th Design/Build/Fly competition for electric radio-controlled aircraft yesterday, receiving high marks across three flights that included the guided release of a glider.

  • 2 months ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Paul Brinkmann

    Research by NASA and industry has led to progress, but it’s not enough If all goes as planned, FAA could issue the first type certificate for an electric air taxi design sometime this year. As big a milestone as that will be, it won’t automatically allow these aircraft to begin ferrying passengers and cargo en masse, perhaps one day autonomously.

  • Mar 28, 2025 | nw.de | Paul Brinkmann

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