Joby Completes “Landmark Series of Successful Aerostructure Trials for Certification Credit with FAA”

Joby Avi­a­tion announced this week, it has com­plet­ed “a land­mark series of major and suc­cess­ful aerostruc­ture tests on its eVTOl air­craft for cer­ti­fi­ca­tion cred­it with the FAA,” reports Busi­ness Wire.

This rep­re­sents sta­t­ic load test­ing of the tail struc­ture, mark­ing the first time an elec­tric air taxi com­pa­ny has tri­alled a major aerostruc­ture of its air­craft for-cred­it with FAA rep­re­sen­ta­tives present. 

The tests took place in San­ta Cruz, Cal­i­for­nia, as part of a rig­or­ous tri­al cam­paign cov­er­ing all of the struc­tures, com­po­nents and sys­tems on the air­craft, pro­duc­ing data that is required for FAA Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

Didi­er Papadopou­los, Pres­i­dent of Air­craft OEM at Joby, com­ment­ed, “Com­plet­ing for-cred­it sta­t­ic load test­ing on a major air­craft struc­ture marks an impor­tant step towards cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the Joby air­craft and we’re very pleased with the results. Reach­ing this mile­stone is the cul­mi­na­tion of years of hard work across the engi­neer­ing, test­ing, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, and man­u­fac­tur­ing teams at Joby.”

He con­tin­ued, “Our ver­ti­cal­ly-inte­grat­ed approach to air­craft devel­op­ment gives us the capa­bil­i­ty to design, build, and test entire aerostruc­tures in-house, pro­vid­ing Joby with a strong foun­da­tion to rapid­ly and effi­cient­ly con­tin­ue to bring inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies to mar­ket.”

Dur­ing the tri­als, com­pa­ny engi­neers “applied loads to the air­craft’s tail struc­ture that far exceed the max­i­mum forces the struc­ture is expect­ed to expe­ri­ence dur­ing flight,” states Busi­ness Wire. “The FAA-con­form­ing tail struc­ture used in the test, along with the test pro­ce­dure, instru­men­ta­tion, and applied loads, are out­lined in Joby’s cer­ti­fi­ca­tion doc­u­ments, which have been approved by the FAA as part of the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.jobyaviation.com

(Top image: A Joby elec­tric air taxi in flight — Cred­it: Joby Avi­a­tion)

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