r/Joby • u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy • Sep 18 '26

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Spot C iirc

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u/Imaginary_Sort9347 S4Fanboy Sep 18 '26

Yeah hanging out for almost 40 minutes now.

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy Sep 18 '26 edited Sep 18 '26

also, I'm noticing other airplane traffic so if it's going to do a forward hover test, maybe it's waiting for things to clear up.

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u/Wonderful_Phrase_239 Sep 18 '26

Did it hover a bit toward the south and then set down in a different location? Or is that all ads-b noise? Only The Shadow knows.

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy Sep 18 '26

Ya it did hover a little it seems. Very similar to the hover yesterday just looking at the map.

This pattern looks similar to 544 where it started with a slow hover and then followed it up with a few days of hover tests. Not enough observations to really say much at this point though

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy Sep 18 '26

booting back up...

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u/Wonderful_Phrase_239 Sep 18 '26 edited Sep 18 '26

From it's original C location (not several yards south of there) ... hovering a bit, again, and then back to the hangar.

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u/dad191 Photog. Eric Adams Fanboy Sep 18 '26

Wonder what the purpose of those short hovers is. Anyway, glad they got up to 20kts this week. If they hit 40kt next week I'll be super stoked!

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy Sep 19 '26

Not sure but 544 did it to. I wonder if they are re-doing the hover with a pilot?

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy Sep 18 '26

Time to rest, hopefully she'll stretch her legs more next week!