Joby partners with aviation high school to prepare the future electric aviation workforce

Joby Avi­a­tion has part­nered with Avi­a­tion High School, a lead­ing edu­ca­tion cen­tre for future air­craft main­tain­ers and aero­space pro­fes­sion­als in New York City, to pre­pare the next gen­er­a­tion of air­craft main­te­nance tech­ni­cians and aero­space lead­ers.

Joby’s part­ner­ship with the school comes short­ly after the Com­pa­ny announced a mul­ti-year part­ner­ship with Delta Air Lines to deliv­er trans­for­ma­tion­al, sus­tain­able home-to-air­port ser­vice for Delta cus­tomers, begin­ning in New York and Los Ange­les.

Delta Air Lines part­ners with Joby Avi­a­tion to deliv­er home-to-air­port trans­porta­tion to cus­tomers

New York City Schools chan­cel­lor David Banks remarked: “Indus­try part­ner­ships such as this are key in ensur­ing our pro­grams are rel­e­vant to stu­dents’ inter­ests, and I’m grate­ful to every­one at Avi­a­tion High School and Joby Avi­a­tion.”

One hun­dred Avi­a­tion High School stu­dents have already enrolled in Joby’s online Pri­vate Pilot Ground School course, which teach­es the basics of aero­dy­nam­ics, avi­a­tion and pilot­ing. Joby will also work with the school’s fac­ul­ty to inte­grate mate­r­i­al on elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems and oth­er new tech­nolo­gies into its cur­ricu­lum.

Avi­a­tion High School prin­ci­pal Steven Jack­son added: “We will part­ner with Joby to train stu­dents to work with these tech­nolo­gies for suc­cess­ful careers in the avi­a­tion world of tomor­row.”

Joby recent­ly exhib­it­ed four vir­tu­al-real­i­ty sim­u­la­tors at Avi­a­tion High School, when stu­dents could vir­tu­al­ly pilot the eVTOL air­craft, which has a dra­mat­i­cal­ly low­er noise sig­na­ture than tra­di­tion­al heli­copters and pro­duces zero emis­sions dur­ing flight.

Joby head of air oper­a­tions Bon­ny Simi said: “Avi­a­tion High School is work­ing upstream to pre­pare a diverse group of stu­dents to join the next gen­er­a­tion of pilots, main­tain­ers, and aero­space lead­ers by giv­ing stu­dents first-hand access to inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies like elec­tric propul­sion and eVTOL air­craft design.”

New York City Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion pres­i­dent Andrew Kim­ball con­tin­ued: “This sort of part­ner­ship is essen­tial in cre­at­ing a more vibrant and inclu­sive econ­o­my. Thank you to every­one at Avi­a­tion High School, the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, and Joby Avi­a­tion, for pro­vid­ing such a valu­able pro­gram to our stu­dents.”

Queens Bor­ough pres­i­dent Dono­van Richards con­clud­ed: “The avi­a­tion indus­try is tak­ing off in Queens as LaGuardia Airport’s rede­vel­op­ment wraps up and Kennedy Airport’s revi­tal­iza­tion gets under­way.

“It is crit­i­cal that the tens of thou­sands of jobs cre­at­ed by these projects are filled by Queens res­i­dents, and that our young peo­ple are eas­i­ly con­nect­ed to these oppor­tu­ni­ties.

“I look for­ward to part­ner­ing with Avi­a­tion High School, Joby Avi­a­tion, the Port Author­i­ty and all our part­ners to ensure that Queens is at the fore­front of the reimag­in­ing of our air­ports.”

Yes­ter­day, Joby Avi­a­tion com­plet­ed the sec­ond of four sys­tem reviews required by the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) as part of the company’s air­craft type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gramme.

Joby com­pletes sec­ond of four Sys­tem Reviews with the FAA as part of its type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gramme