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- Added: September 16, 2025
- Updated: September 17, 2025
The Joby Aircraft comes with one livery: House Livery that is white with black accents.
The Joby Aircraft comes with one livery: House Livery that is white with black accents.
The Joby aircraft is a tilt-propeller electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developed and manufactured by Joby Aviation of the United States. Joby developed the aircraft to revolutionize urban transportation using battery-electric propulsion. The Joby aircraft is piloted and can accommodate up to four passengers plus luggage.
The development of the Joby aircraft traces its roots to the founding of Joby Aviation in 2009. The company sought to create an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft that would meet several criteria: it would meet the high safety bar of commercial aviation safety standards, operate as quietly as possible, and it would offer a fast, affordable, new way for people to move around increasingly congested urban areas as well as improve connectivity for rural communities.
Joby designed the and built a sub-scale version of its aircraft in 2015. Based on a fixed-wing design, the aircraft is a high-wing monoplane with a forward-swept V-tail. It is propelled by six tilting five-blade propeller systems, one on each end of the V-tail and four on the main wing. Each propeller system is powered by a 70-kilowatt, high-efficiency, dual-wound electric motor housed in a nacelle. The nacelles on the V-tail and on the ends of the main wing rotate to pivot thrust. Inboard nacelles on the main wing remain fixed and the propeller system of each has an articulated linkage that allows it to rotate.
Joby developed both the motors and the propeller systems specifically for the demanding needs of its eVTOL aircraft. The motors feature dual windings and dual inverters for redundancy, with each inverter wired to a separate of four electrically isolated battery packs. The propeller blades were engineered to keep the aircraft as quiet as possible during take-off, landing, and hover, and to be optimally efficient during forward flight. The motors, propeller systems, and their layout were developed for maximum safety. If a battery pack, motor, or a propeller system should fail during take-off, landing, or while hovering, the remaining five functioning systems can compensate for the loss of thrust and the aircraft is designed to remain safely operational.
The company developed an advanced, fly-by-wire flight control system to reduce pilot workload compared to traditional helicopters. Based on the unified flight control concept used by the F-35B and the VAAC Harrier, Joby’s flight controls allow the pilot to focus more on other elements of flight such as navigating and communicating. The system uses two “inceptors,” one on the right side of the pilot and one on the left. The right inceptor controls the aircraft’s direction of flight, altitude, and attitude, and the left inceptor controls the aircraft’s speed and acceleration. The fully fly-by-wire flight control system is eminently intuitive to operate and has several safety features incorporated into it. These include a decelerate-to-hover shortcut button that will bring the Joby aircraft to a hover over its intended landing zone and an auto-stabilizing mode if the pilot releases control of the inceptors.
The cockpit was developed for optimal pilot situational awareness and features a Garmin G3000 fully integrated flight deck. The flight deck uses high-resolution color displays and incorporates synthetic vision.
The Joby aircraft features all-composite construction and tricycle landing gear. It measures 21 feet in length and has a wingspan of about 38 feet. Banks of liquid-cooled, high-density, lithium-ion polymer batteries that are housed in titanium cases provide power. It has an anticipated service ceiling of 15,000 feet, a range of 100 miles, and a maximum cruise speed of 200 miles per hour.
In order to enable aerial mobility in and around densely-populated areas, the Joby aircraft operates incredibly quietly. Measurements conducted by NASA confirmed that the aircraft emits just 45.2 A-weighted decibels (dBA) during overhead flight from 1,640 feet, which falls within the range of background noise for most cities. The aircraft emits about 65 dBA during take-off, landing, and hover, and does not require the minutes of spin-up and spin-down time of traditional helicopters.
| CRUISE SPEED | 200 mph |
| RANGE | 150 miles |
| WINGSPAN | 35 ft |
| ENGINE | 6 electric motors |
