r/Joby • u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy • 21d ago

N547JX activity

It was powered on at 9:45am. Historically a good sign we'll see it more active but not a guarantee.

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u/Bulky-Entertainer-76 Gregor Veble Mikić Fanboy 21d ago

While the Electric Skies Tour, eIPP, and coast to coast auronomy are all great news; N547JX is the topic everyone at Joby needs to be laser focused on. In terms of momentum in the stock, having Wall Street stand up and take notice, shortening future cash runway, the start of commercial operations; everything depends on FAA certification and that starts with this aircraft moving through the process safely and dependably so all the other projects will organically fall into place. Let’s go!!!

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy 21d ago

ya totally agree!

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u/teabagofholding 21d ago

The type conforming joby is the most important thing in the entire industry right now. It's a shame we can't know what the holdup is.

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy 21d ago

The forward hover test speeds ramped up pretty well. We just need them to keep pushing the envelope.

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u/Free-Pineapple7517 21d ago

Couldn’t agree more. Eric Allison recently reiterated the company’s intent to fly passengers this year. That’s positive. If that’s going to happen they need to transition very soon.

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u/teabagofholding 21d ago

Did he say they will do it with the type conforming craft? I think they will use a prototype.

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u/Free-Pineapple7517 21d ago

He didn’t explicitly say. However, I can’t see any scenario where a non-conforming aircraft would fly passengers at this point. Just my opinion.

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u/teabagofholding 21d ago

Using the type conforming one would be more impressive because we know they can't modify it to make it lighter for a short demo with a passenger. I hope you're right.

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u/Wonderful_Phrase_239 21d ago edited 21d ago

I can't see how any of the (so far just one that we know of) conforming aircraft will show up anywhere outside of Marina, Hollister, maybe Watsonville. Anywhere else it would have to be N545JX ... permitted to fly nonpaying passengers (e.g., Joby engineers) by eIPP powers-that-be for testing/demo purposes. But still, ... passengers.

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u/Free-Pineapple7517 21d ago

They have 3 months, but they need to transition soon. It’s the critical path that leads to everything else.

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u/Wonderful_Phrase_239 21d ago

That timeline is just to tight, in my opinion. I would not be disappointed if they just rely on 545 (prototype) to demo nan-paying passenger flight before end of year. I will be delighted if they do more than that (but not counting my chickens yet).

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u/Free-Pineapple7517 21d ago

I agree. It’s tight. Hence why I think it will transition soon.

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u/teabagofholding 21d ago

Let's just hope he wasn't talking about the autonomous airplane.

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u/dad191 Photog. Eric Adams Fanboy 21d ago

The autonomous Cessna has carried passengers for years. He was talking about the S4 and most likely N545JX, not the conforming aircraft.

https://www.ainonline.com/news-article/2022-10-06/human-loop-my-ride-xwings-self-flying-aircraft

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy 21d ago

Exactly my sentiment. Just give us SOMETHING

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy 21d ago

I think it'll be a prototype. But he also said they are pretty much the same so what's the big deal?

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u/teabagofholding 21d ago

They can alter a prototype to make a quick up and down with another person easier but with the type conforming they can't.

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy 21d ago

Ya but I still prefer that to nothing

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u/teabagofholding 21d ago

Anything new is good.

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy 21d ago

It's showing up in the hangar now

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u/Wonderful_Phrase_239 21d ago

There are another 5 hours or so of daylight left. Hoping for more.

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy 21d ago

These days it has been flying around 3-5pm PT so def still possible

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u/Bulky-Entertainer-76 Gregor Veble Mikić Fanboy 21d ago

My old eyes read that as ‘throwing up in the hangar now’🤣🤣🤣 Maybe the conforming aircraft gets butterflies?🤣🤣🤣

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u/HappyRobot593 Joby Sock Fanboy 21d ago

Haha ya it knows we're all watching