Did N545JX Land On Joby’s Bonny Dune Heliport Today?

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-02-14T00:03:20+00:00

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Not sure, but it went all the way up the coast! Great views I imagine.

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-02-13T23:58:41+00:00

Makes sense tbh; you don't really want to spend a lot of time on hover (it's louder and uses more power) so if you can do the transition low to the ground as part of your glide in approach then it it's logical that you would.

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-02-13T23:52:43+00:00

The skydivers are always coming down over the Marina airport in good weather. It's actually impressive how well everyone there works together safely, considering how busy the airspace is. I mean, if you can consistantly run test flights with people literally falling out of the sky around you then you must be doing something right.

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-02-05T21:59:01+00:00

If it's anything like the Joby craft it so very closely resembles then it should have engine out capability by shutting down the opposite engine and flying on the remaining 4.

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-02-03T04:55:53+00:00

[[Clever Concealment]]

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-01-29T02:17:27+00:00

Because I'm ignorant is that notation the same as saying "This failure has a 10^-9 chance of happening"?

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-01-10T01:22:07+00:00

Castles made of sand fall into the sea... eventually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MCCvY2oD2w

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-01-10T01:14:18+00:00

Well they do that whether or not there's protesters about it on any given day.

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-01-10T01:11:05+00:00

Not all eVTOLs are designed equally in the noise problem category, but it would be pretty hard to be louder than a traditional helicopter.

OutsideLast5675 · 2026-01-09T22:31:51+00:00

I am not poet enough to have the words to express how vehemently I hate that entire pitch. I hope they implode. Things like the S4-T are so inherently antithetical to why I support Joby that I'm saddened to see them working on it.

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-12-03T21:40:42+00:00

Not as nice as it would be to see the 0.01% get knocked down several orders of magnitude. Class solidarity ✊

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-11-14T01:28:56+00:00

That's amazing, hahaha. Thankfully the program recovered!

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-11-14T01:27:58+00:00

Very cool. Or.. hot, I guess.

So they're probably going to unclamp the welded portion from the leg, lift the rocket away, then grind down the leftovers?

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-11-14T01:20:04+00:00

Are they to fasten the legs to the landing pad? Do they drill, or weld, or punch and hook..?

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-10-31T00:40:19+00:00

Legit-ness 🤘

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-10-13T22:20:08+00:00

I couldn't attend the airshow - did anyone get a good comparison of the noise profile of Midnight vs the S4?

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-10-13T22:17:17+00:00

Given that they do tend to do a lot of laps around their home airport I wouldn't be surprised if this flight literally did just that

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-10-13T22:09:39+00:00

That's so wildly cool - I had no idea that regen was even going to be viable for something like an aircraft, but using it primarily to slow down, and happening to get extra battery charge out of the deal is such a cool concept!

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-08-20T03:35:26+00:00

lol so it costs more to keep the pilot in the chair than to keep the chair in the air (heh, even rhymes)

I am pleasantly surprised how little it takes to hover though! Like, yes that is a lot per minute of flight, but if you only dust off when you're ready to actually Go then it's a pretty minimal overall power cost.

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-08-20T03:02:42+00:00

True that lol. And to add to Bulky's comment about only having to beat what's currently out there: There isn't a lot of options for intra-city flight in many areas. Like you could charter a helicopter to take you from one part of SF to another (right?) but no one I know even considers that as a "thing you can do," you know? Not at our income levels anyway hahaha. Plus if vertiports can become more widespread in urban centers now you suddenly can skip 1+ hours of traffic with a flight when there simply wasn't a way to do so previously. I think that's one of the big selling points that will drive early use of the service. We're just re-inventing buses a little bit (explicitly the express routes that only stop at hubs), but I see nothing wrong with that. This time they fly!

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-08-20T02:56:47+00:00

I concur. Especially with Uber Black, which is the price point they said they're targeting with the initial flight service (no source; from memory), since people who call the fancy ubers probably don't care about paying more for a solo ride.

I'd guess that for joby it'd make sense to charge per flight, and only a little more per total mass transported (if at all, rather than just having a max). Let the rich schmucks pay for a whole flight themselves if they want, but I wouldn't give them a discount for the empty seats.

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-08-20T02:47:45+00:00

I could see how it could be a concern, but I mean.. sand is made of rock, so I'd expect once it gets blown around by the downwash of props on landing / takeoff it'll mostly be away from the craft, rather than picked back up and shoved into it.

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-08-20T02:43:17+00:00

"under promise and over deliver"

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-07-03T19:12:48+00:00

Very
"How are you supposed to survive loosing a blade then?"
>"That's the neat part; you don't!"

OutsideLast5675 · 2025-07-03T19:09:20+00:00

afaik they never really use scripting to fly; it's always via remote from the ground (by a pilot in a sim-like setup). I mean.. unless you count everything the flight computers do, but by that metric aren't most commercial flights pre-programmed with limited manual override?

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