{"id":15000,"date":"2021-09-01T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=15000"},"modified":"2024-07-03T21:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T21:50:31","slug":"nasa-begins-air-taxi-flight-testing-with-joby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/nasa-begins-air-taxi-flight-testing-with-joby\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Begins Air Taxi Flight Testing with Joby"},"content":{"rendered":"

(The following is NASA press release 21-111. It is archived here for reference.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Joby\u2019s all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is pictured at the company’s Electric Flight Base, located near Big Sur, California. NASA began flight testing with the aircraft as part of the agency\u2019s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign, Monday. This test runs through Friday, Sept.10. Credits: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASA began flight testing Monday with Joby Aviation\u2019s all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as part of the agency\u2019s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign. This testing runs through Friday, Sept.10, at Joby\u2019s Electric Flight Base located near Big Sur, California. This is the first time NASA will test an eVTOL aircraft as part of the campaign. In the future, eVTOL aircraft could serve as air taxis for those in cities and surrounding areas around the country, adding another mode of transportation for moving people and goods.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s goal is to collect vehicle performance and acoustic data for use in modeling and simulation of future airspace concepts. This test will help identify gaps in current Federal Aviation Administration regulations and policies to help incorporate AAM aircraft into the National Airspace System. This multi-event campaign to advance airspace mobility in the U.S. will take place at multiple locations over several years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe National Campaign Developmental Testing is an important strategic step in NASA\u2019s goals to accelerate the AAM industry timeline,\u201d said Davis Hackenberg, NASA AAM mission integration manager. \u201cThese testing scenarios will help inform gaps in current standards to benefit the industry\u2019s progress of integrating AAM vehicles into the airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n

During this round of testing, NASA will collect data from Joby\u2019s eVTOL aircraft, which is intended to serve as a commercial passenger service in the future. Analyzing that data readies the AAM National Campaign to execute the first set of campaign tests, known as NC-1, slated for 2022, with more complex flight scenarios and other industry vehicles.<\/p>\n

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Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications, is shown in this illustration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the Joby aircraft flies planned test scenarios, the NASA team will collect information about how the vehicle moves, how the vehicle sounds, and how the vehicle communicates with controllers. Future partners will fly similar scenarios to evaluate their vehicle readiness.<\/p>\n

The team will deploy the mobile acoustics facility and construct an array of more than 50 microphones to measure the acoustic profile of Joby\u2019s aircraft in different phases of flight.<\/p>\n

\u201cNASA\u2019s AAM National Campaign is critical to driving scientific understanding and public acceptance of eVTOL aircraft,\u201d said JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby Aviation. \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud to have worked closely with NASA on electric flight over the past 10 years and to be the first eVTOL company to fly as part of the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another element of the testing includes making sure external ranges participating in NC-1 meet the protocols for future testing by establishing a baseline to participate. The team will also test NASA\u2019s flight safety and airworthiness processes to approve participants to fly in the campaign.<\/p>\n

When fully integrated into the national airspace, AAM will provide an efficient and affordable system for passenger and cargo transportation, and other applications in the public interest. This system could include aircraft like package delivery drones, air taxis and medical transport vehicles.<\/p>\n

AAM is an aviation system that encompasses developing and deploying aviation in innovative ways not typically seen today. The AAM National Campaign is managed by NASA\u2019s Advanced Air Mobility project, which plans to be a community catalyst for developing and validating system-level concepts and solutions for AAM. The AAM project is a part of the agency\u2019s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.<\/p>\n

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(The following is NASA press release 21-111. It is archived here for reference.) NASA began flight testing Monday with Joby Aviation\u2019s all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as part of the agency\u2019s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign. This testing runs through Friday, Sept.10, at Joby\u2019s Electric Flight Base located near Big Sur, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"class_list":{"0":"post-15000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-nasa"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9-1-2021-5-45-46-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19740,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15000\/revisions\/19740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}