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Joby Aviation: “The Sound of Silence”

Joby has released a new acoustic study show­ing the ‘sound dif­fer­ence’ between its eVTOL when com­pared with a heli­copter.

As the com­pa­ny is soon to embark on an excit­ing 2026, Founder and CEO, JoeBen Bevirt, has empha­sised from the very begin­ning, the impor­tance of an aircraft’s ‘sound of silence’ and lack of noise pol­lu­tion, as being an impor­tant sell­ing point for elec­tric air taxis. His descrip­tion of “the rustling of leaves” has become well-known.

Recent acoustic data, once more, shows just how qui­et Joby’s eVTOL is. This research builds on NASA’s Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Nation­al Cam­paign, when the com­pa­ny demon­strat­ed its aircraft’s rev­o­lu­tion­ary low noise per­for­mance in con­trolled con­di­tions back in 2022.

Austin Thai, Joby’s Acoustics Senior Engi­neer, post­ed a blog last Thurs­day (August 28th) enti­tled ‘From city parks to busy streets: How Joby’s elec­tric air taxi blends into urban sound­scapes.’

The new and impres­sive study includes:-

: Deliv­er­ing rev­o­lu­tion­ary low-noise foot­print - Over an entire roundtrip flight between the loca­tions mod­elled, noise from the Joby air­craft was greater than the ambi­ent noise for only 0.17 sq. miles. When the air­craft is cruis­ing, this drops to 0.004 sq. miles. To put this in per­spec­tive, noise from a tra­di­tion­al heli­copter on the same route was above ambi­ent con­di­tions for 45 sq. miles, poten­tial­ly dis­rupt­ing thou­sands of peo­ple.

: Reduc­ing noise at crit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ty areas - Even near schools, uni­ver­si­ties and parks, the mod­el­ling showed oper­a­tions at or below back­ground noise lev­els. Heli­copters, by com­par­i­son, remain loud­er than back­ground noise for near­ly a minute dur­ing flight in some loca­tions.

Please Read Full Report 

https://www.jobyaviation.com/blog/ambient-noise-modeling

Joby has also launched the Joby Sounds app so you can hear the dif­fer­ence first-hand.

https://www.jobyaviation.com/blog/ambient-noise-modeling

Mean­while, the acqui­si­tion of Blade Air Mobility’s pas­sen­ger busi­ness has now been signed, sealed and deliv­ered.

A com­pa­ny press release says, “The acqui­si­tion brings an imme­di­ate oper­a­tional foot­print to Joby in key mar­kets and a play­book that will lay the foun­da­tion for the intro­duc­tion of our eVTOL air­craft into com­mer­cial air taxi ser­vice.”  

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.jobyaviation.com

(Top image: Joby Avi­a­tion eVTOL)

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