“Joby Flies Two Aircraft Simultaneously For Another Landmark Trial”

As the mag­pie say­ing points out, “It is two for joy” and for eVTOL devel­op­er and man­u­fac­tur­er, U.S‑based Joby Avi­a­tion, the com­pa­ny has achieved yet anoth­er impor­tant land­mark, when two of their elec­tric air taxis recent­ly flew simul­ta­ne­ous­ly for the first time, mark­ing anoth­er impor­tant mile­stone in the company’s flight test­ing pro­gram, reports a press release.

The release states, “This two-air­craft flight, com­plet­ed in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia on May 9th, is a fur­ther demon­stra­tion of the matu­ri­ty of Joby’s test pro­gram, and comes just two weeks after the Com­pa­ny announced it had reached anoth­er test­ing land­mark, suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ing flights with a full tran­si­tion from ver­ti­cal to cruise flight, and back again, with a pilot onboard.”

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JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO, enthused, “With six air­craft in our test fleet, fly­ing mul­ti­ple air­craft at a time will play an impor­tant role in accel­er­at­ing our cer­ti­fi­ca­tion test­ing and sup­port­ing our plans to car­ry our first pas­sen­gers next year. This achieve­ment not only demon­strates Joby’s lead­er­ship in the sec­tor, it is anoth­er indi­ca­tion of the pow­er of Amer­i­can inno­va­tion.”

The release con­tin­ues, “Joby has com­plet­ed more than 40,000 miles of test flights across mul­ti­ple air­craft, includ­ing demon­stra­tion flights in New York City, Japan and Korea. The sixth air­craft to join Joby’s flight test pro­gram is cur­rent­ly under­go­ing final func­tion­al checks, hav­ing been pow­ered on for the first time last month. Two air­craft are posi­tioned at Edwards Air Force Base where they are com­plet­ing test­ing in con­junc­tion with the company’s defence cus­tomers.”

Full Tran­si­tion Flight from Ver­ti­cal to Cruise Flight

Joby has part­nered with Delta Air Lines and Uber to bring its ser­vice to the U.S and expects Los Ange­les and New York City to be launch mar­kets. Ser­vice is planned to start short­ly after Joby receives type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion from the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion.  

Out­side of Amer­i­ca, Joby recent­ly announced a part­ner­ship with Vir­gin Atlantic to bring its ser­vice to the UK and has part­nered with ANA Hold­ings Inc., Japan’s largest air­line, to bring its ser­vice to Japan.

Mean­while, Joby’s Q1 2025 Share­hold­er Let­ter, pub­lished last week, cel­e­brat­ed a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive quar­ter of record progress toward cer­ti­fy­ing its air­craft with the FAA and reit­er­at­ed plans to start pas­sen­ger oper­a­tions in Dubai in ear­ly 2026.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.jobyaviation.com

(Top image: Two Joby air taxis (N541JX and N544JX) fly­ing simul­ta­ne­ous­ly in the skies over Mari­na, CA — Cred­it: Joby Avi­a­tion)

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