Watch Video: “Joby Aviation Lands at Grand Central Terminal, New York”

Last week Joby Avi­a­tion trans­port­ed its eVTOL to the Grand Cen­tral Ter­mi­nal, New York for passers-by to mar­vel at and view the present/future. The dis­play took place over three days (Octo­ber 3rd to 5th). The pub­lic were amazed by the futur­is­tic sight as they rushed to work or had recre­ation­al plans in the city.

Andy Brehm, Head of New York City busi­ness devel­op­ment for Joby, com­ment­ed, “Our goal is to help save peo­ple time in cities like New York, where con­ges­tion con­tin­ues to be a major prob­lem.”

To back this up, the com­pa­ny says its eVTOL air­craft can fly New York­ers from low­er Man­hat­tan to JFK Air­port in sev­en min­utes, ver­sus 45 min­utes in a cab. And that doesn’t allow for the many peri­ods of severe road con­ges­tion which can length­en the time fur­ther.

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As read­ers know, the air­craft can seat four pas­sen­gers plus a pilot with a 1,000-pound pay­load; has a range of about 100 miles; and can reach a max­i­mum speed of 200 mph.

Well-heeled New York­ers can already take a heli­copter ser­vice like Blade to the air­port. How­ev­er, such ser­vices are fac­ing push­back from local res­i­dents over their exces­sive noise pro­file, with some seek­ing to ban “non-essen­tial” flights like those to the air­port or the Hamp­tons.

While tra­di­tion­al heli­copters can pro­duce well over 100 deci­bels of noise, Joby prides itself on the descrip­tion “as qui­et as the sound of whis­per­ing leaves,” stat­ing the eVTOL pro­duces less than 65 deci­bels at take­off and 45 deci­bels at cruis­ing alti­tude. Brehm points out, “That’s 100 times qui­eter than the present heli­copter.”

Safe­ty is also a major fac­tor. He con­tin­ued, “The whole air­craft is built with the idea of redun­dan­cy being fun­da­men­tal to how we cre­ate the best safe­ty pro­file dur­ing these types of eVTOL flight jour­neys.” 

The craft has been out­fit­ted with numer­ous redun­dan­cies includ­ing: The six pro­pellers are each attached to two motors, which them­selves are wired to two sep­a­rate invert­ers, that are then wired to two sep­a­rate bat­ter­ies.

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New York May­or, Eric Adams, has rolled out the wel­come mat for eVTOLs, host­ing a pilot demon­stra­tion last year and order­ing any new fran­chisee of the Down­town Man­hat­tan heli­port to install elec­tric charg­ing infra­struc­ture. Joby has already reached a deal to install charg­ers at a heli­port across the Hud­son Riv­er in Kearny, New Jer­sey. 

The com­pa­ny isn’t wor­ried about its for­tunes chang­ing in the Big Apple should Adams, who is now fac­ing a five-count crim­i­nal indict­ment on fed­er­al cor­rup­tion charges, be out of a job faster than expect­ed.

Brehm con­clud­ed, “The tech­nol­o­gy that we’re cre­at­ing has incred­i­ble appli­ca­tion for a place like New York City. So regard­less of who­ev­er we’re work­ing with on the city side, I think we have a real­ly valu­able tool that can be added to the trans­porta­tion sys­tem here in New York.”

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https://www.jobyaviation.com

(News Source: www.amny.com)

(Images: Joby Aviation/amny.com)

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