Inside Joby's eVTOL Air Taxi, Coming in 2025

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: encan you hear it this is your air taxi and it's coming in to land quietly I'm in the pilot seat here at Joby Aviation to give you a behind the scenes look at how their air taxis are built flying cars electric vertical takeoff and Landing aircraft or air taxis no matter what you call them they're the stuff of Science Fiction but not for much longer jby is ramping up production to make its Air Taxi as easy to hail as a Uber and almost as easy to fly that's unbelievable I did it I didn't crash and it could be picking you up as early as 2025 it's got a range of 100 m designed for short hop flights this is one of joby's flight test Vehicles it has one pilot seats up to four passengers and has room for luggage we wanted you to be able to walk up to it and feel like it was almost a more traditional car and be able to hop into the doors shut in feel like this is going to be a very normal trip for you but before you take to the skies you probably want to know how it all works and how safe it is Joby invited us to see inside the marina manufacturing facility where it conducts test flights and builds the aircraft every composite part at Joby starts its life as a piece of carbon fiber and you can feel it it you see it's super bendable and easy to move around right oh it is we are cutting the individual ply shapes out one ply at a time and so then once we have all of these pieces of carbon fiber we put them into a kit and then they will go into the next room where I'll show you they actually get laminated to build apart each one of these stations is a different mold for a different component on the airplane and one of the really cool things about this facility right here is that we have these laser projection units on the ceiling and so each one of these Parts is being projected on where the Plies need to go for the larger components we've invested in automatic F placement machines so AFP and what this machine is actually doing here is it's putting down uh strands of carbon fiber individually and then you hear that click click click click that's it actually cutting each strand of carbon fiber before it goes to do the next sweep to lay down more composits after the lamination process the parts get baked in a giant tunnel called an autoclave this one is 40 ft long it fits a wing or the entire fuselage and it heats up to 350° F so it's basically like an oven it pressurizes it so it's a big pressure chamber and then the composite part itself has a vacuum bag in it and so we're actually pulling a vacuum on the part how do you close the the door essentially it looks so heavy like you have to get a full C I'm glad you asked that so this whole thing you can see it's almost like a train track here right and we will actually load Parts onto uh this rail system and there's a bridge that comes up and allows us to roll the parts and the tools into the autoclave and then uh the bridge will claps down and then the large door actually will close which will allow it to become a pressure chamber each part then goes through ultrasonic testing which can detect flws or quality issues after we cook the composite Parts in uh the autoclave and then we assemble it we build components like this propeller so this is actually like a flight Joby propeller feel how light it is wow that is not what I was expecting I can just hold it with one hand no problem and this started life as those strands of carbon fiber that we just saw exactly that is amazing it's these propellers combined with the electric propulsion unit that makes the aircraft more quiet than a traditional plane or helicopter as you see the vehicle right now it's in its hover configuration so all of the propellers are pointing vertical after it takes off vertically all of these uh Nels and Motors will actually articulate 90° so the propellers will be facing forward okay when we're flying forward uh we're actually using about a third less energy and so we can go three times as far than if we were just like hovering that also makes us extremely quiet we did some testing with NASA last year and we found that we're actually 100 times quieter than a traditional helicopter I feel like a lot of people who are going to get into an air taxi might have reservations I think for very good reason so how how safe are we talking here very safe safety has been the most important pillar of this aircraft from the beginning of uh when we started working on we actually chose to have the six propellers so that we could have a level of redundancy baked in we chose for all of the propellers to be able to articulate so that we always will be able to have some form of failure and likely the occupants wouldn't even notice that something turned off we have multiple flight computers we have multiple batteries on each one of our Motors so there's redundancy and robustness at every layer gaining The public's trust to jump in an air taxi also Al means the aircraft and its flight operations need to be highly regulated Joby is working with the FAA to certify the vehicle for commercial flights somehow Joy has allowed me to fly the actual Simulator the same one that real Pilots are going to be able to train on and wizer is going to walk me through step by step I've never flown before anything you're going to be just fine height is on your right hand and speed is on your left hand and it doesn't matter where you are in the fight envelope that's going to be true we've actually set up a little rout here which is from J FK into jrb which is the downtown heliport so with your right hand you're going to literally twist that stick nice and gently again not too much that's it and we need to twist until we're pointing down the first leg which is this magenta leg so you got to bring that magenta all the way around until it's facing upwards and that will also have us pointing at the downtown area which is just coming into view you can see the big city in the distance that's where we're about to fly to very cool and by the way if you can do it in here it's exactly the same as doing it in the real aircraft it's like identical there's no difference so now we need to start getting some forward speed and we do that with your left thumb push that controller up and release and that has said to the aircraft please go to 100 knots immediately notice we are accelerating you can see the ground's moving the tilts are moving down automatically so you can see there's an altimeter here which is showing you altitude coming up on 700 ft and as we approach a thousand uh we will level off I'm starting to see our Landing point which is actually here this is where we're going I'm going to land on that really yes you are you're going to land on that it's a tiny little H yeah it's a tiny little h going to get it all done it's beautiful so you're doing this bit the aircraft is looking after the speed the aircraft will stop over the edge you just have to steer to it yes you just have to steer to it now push to go down nice and gently cuz you're going to land you've completed your flight that's unbelievable I did it I didn't crash it was so easy you didn't just do it you did it smoothly and you did it like a pro I mean it was like that's the job so that's how easy our copters to play I'm almost ready to be a real pilot oh yeah you're cleared I mean I sign you up right now once the air taxi is ready for commercial flights you'll open the app and book to bring this all to reality Joby is partnering with Delta in the US so you could hail an air taxi to and from JFK LaGuardia or LAX airports this is a concept ver Deport where you'd wait for your flight but there are still plenty of unknowns up in the air like price and how quickly the FAA will let air taxis take off naturally the question that you have is when can I fly in one of these well it could actually be as early as next year thanks so much for watching beta test hope you enjoyed the episode hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more I will see you in the skiescan you hear it this is your air taxi and it's coming in to land quietly I'm in the pilot seat here at Joby Aviation to give you a behind the scenes look at how their air taxis are built flying cars electric vertical takeoff and Landing aircraft or air taxis no matter what you call them they're the stuff of Science Fiction but not for much longer jby is ramping up production to make its Air Taxi as easy to hail as a Uber and almost as easy to fly that's unbelievable I did it I didn't crash and it could be picking you up as early as 2025 it's got a range of 100 m designed for short hop flights this is one of joby's flight test Vehicles it has one pilot seats up to four passengers and has room for luggage we wanted you to be able to walk up to it and feel like it was almost a more traditional car and be able to hop into the doors shut in feel like this is going to be a very normal trip for you but before you take to the skies you probably want to know how it all works and how safe it is Joby invited us to see inside the marina manufacturing facility where it conducts test flights and builds the aircraft every composite part at Joby starts its life as a piece of carbon fiber and you can feel it it you see it's super bendable and easy to move around right oh it is we are cutting the individual ply shapes out one ply at a time and so then once we have all of these pieces of carbon fiber we put them into a kit and then they will go into the next room where I'll show you they actually get laminated to build apart each one of these stations is a different mold for a different component on the airplane and one of the really cool things about this facility right here is that we have these laser projection units on the ceiling and so each one of these Parts is being projected on where the Plies need to go for the larger components we've invested in automatic F placement machines so AFP and what this machine is actually doing here is it's putting down uh strands of carbon fiber individually and then you hear that click click click click that's it actually cutting each strand of carbon fiber before it goes to do the next sweep to lay down more composits after the lamination process the parts get baked in a giant tunnel called an autoclave this one is 40 ft long it fits a wing or the entire fuselage and it heats up to 350° F so it's basically like an oven it pressurizes it so it's a big pressure chamber and then the composite part itself has a vacuum bag in it and so we're actually pulling a vacuum on the part how do you close the the door essentially it looks so heavy like you have to get a full C I'm glad you asked that so this whole thing you can see it's almost like a train track here right and we will actually load Parts onto uh this rail system and there's a bridge that comes up and allows us to roll the parts and the tools into the autoclave and then uh the bridge will claps down and then the large door actually will close which will allow it to become a pressure chamber each part then goes through ultrasonic testing which can detect flws or quality issues after we cook the composite Parts in uh the autoclave and then we assemble it we build components like this propeller so this is actually like a flight Joby propeller feel how light it is wow that is not what I was expecting I can just hold it with one hand no problem and this started life as those strands of carbon fiber that we just saw exactly that is amazing it's these propellers combined with the electric propulsion unit that makes the aircraft more quiet than a traditional plane or helicopter as you see the vehicle right now it's in its hover configuration so all of the propellers are pointing vertical after it takes off vertically all of these uh Nels and Motors will actually articulate 90° so the propellers will be facing forward okay when we're flying forward uh we're actually using about a third less energy and so we can go three times as far than if we were just like hovering that also makes us extremely quiet we did some testing with NASA last year and we found that we're actually 100 times quieter than a traditional helicopter I feel like a lot of people who are going to get into an air taxi might have reservations I think for very good reason so how how safe are we talking here very safe safety has been the most important pillar of this aircraft from the beginning of uh when we started working on we actually chose to have the six propellers so that we could have a level of redundancy baked in we chose for all of the propellers to be able to articulate so that we always will be able to have some form of failure and likely the occupants wouldn't even notice that something turned off we have multiple flight computers we have multiple batteries on each one of our Motors so there's redundancy and robustness at every layer gaining The public's trust to jump in an air taxi also Al means the aircraft and its flight operations need to be highly regulated Joby is working with the FAA to certify the vehicle for commercial flights somehow Joy has allowed me to fly the actual Simulator the same one that real Pilots are going to be able to train on and wizer is going to walk me through step by step I've never flown before anything you're going to be just fine height is on your right hand and speed is on your left hand and it doesn't matter where you are in the fight envelope that's going to be true we've actually set up a little rout here which is from J FK into jrb which is the downtown heliport so with your right hand you're going to literally twist that stick nice and gently again not too much that's it and we need to twist until we're pointing down the first leg which is this magenta leg so you got to bring that magenta all the way around until it's facing upwards and that will also have us pointing at the downtown area which is just coming into view you can see the big city in the distance that's where we're about to fly to very cool and by the way if you can do it in here it's exactly the same as doing it in the real aircraft it's like identical there's no difference so now we need to start getting some forward speed and we do that with your left thumb push that controller up and release and that has said to the aircraft please go to 100 knots immediately notice we are accelerating you can see the ground's moving the tilts are moving down automatically so you can see there's an altimeter here which is showing you altitude coming up on 700 ft and as we approach a thousand uh we will level off I'm starting to see our Landing point which is actually here this is where we're going I'm going to land on that really yes you are you're going to land on that it's a tiny little H yeah it's a tiny little h going to get it all done it's beautiful so you're doing this bit the aircraft is looking after the speed the aircraft will stop over the edge you just have to steer to it yes you just have to steer to it now push to go down nice and gently cuz you're going to land you've completed your flight that's unbelievable I did it I didn't crash it was so easy you didn't just do it you did it smoothly and you did it like a pro I mean it was like that's the job so that's how easy our copters to play I'm almost ready to be a real pilot oh yeah you're cleared I mean I sign you up right now once the air taxi is ready for commercial flights you'll open the app and book to bring this all to reality Joby is partnering with Delta in the US so you could hail an air taxi to and from JFK LaGuardia or LAX airports this is a concept ver Deport where you'd wait for your flight but there are still plenty of unknowns up in the air like price and how quickly the FAA will let air taxis take off naturally the question that you have is when can I fly in one of these well it could actually be as early as next year thanks so much for watching beta test hope you enjoyed the episode hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more I will see you in the skies\n"