Jobs available in EV aviation..

[Hillhater]

First,..i have no connection with these guys, and cannot vouch for how genuine this is...Others will know more ?
I just came across this and thought it should be made known here.
Joby Aviation, developers of maned multirotor flight aircraft, are advertising dozens of job opportunities at their SantaCruz site. Interviews are being held on March 5th. Good luck to those of you interested .
Details of jobs are on their site
https://www.jobyaviation.com/
Flyer attached

 

[Lebowski]

Oh this one looks interesting !

 

[amberwolf]

some discussions about their stuff/designs/etc

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[markz]

The picture looks like its not real, like its painted to look real.
It looks like a Hobbyking picture LOL

 

[flat tire]

There is basically no future in manned multirotor aircraft because in reality they don't have advantages over a conventional helicopter with electric powertrain. The simplest multirotor designs lose control with an engine out and more complicated designs lose control with two engines out. Also lose control with any flight logic, or some electrical issues. Result, you drop toward the ground and die. It's more practical to make a slightly more mechanically complicated conventional helicopter with electric motor.

Consider the following points:

The main issue with helicopters, even if they are "affordable" is noise. Helicopters are ridiculously loud whether the design is conventional or multirotor. Multirotors don't open doors to fly into new areas.

Conventional helicopters can all safely land with complete engine failure, and most of them can safely land with complete and total failure of all powered systems. This is kind of a big deal.

Certification of all the logic and powertrain hardware to human-rated levels will be incredibly expensive, so the plausible cost advantage of a scaled up drone without all that pesky mechanical conventional helicopter stuff goes out the window.

 

[efMX Trials Electric Freeride]

seems investors, manufacturers, etc see a future ..

"The market for flying cars, now known as electric air taxis, should continue to mature during this decade, soaring to $1.5 trillion globally by 2040, according to a Morgan Stanley Research study.
Driving this trend is a confluence of technologies, including autonomous vehicles such as drones and self-driving cars, more efficient batteries and advanced manufacturing techniques.
Start-ups and major brands are developing them, including Boeing, Hyundai, Airbus, Toyota and Uber..."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/the-flying-taxi-market-is-ready-to-change-worldwide-travel.html

 

[ScooterMan101]

A BRS Recovery System should be Mandatory on something like this.

Wonder though how effective it would be if the Multi Rotor Aircraft is spinning ?

Here is what can happen, this video is of Dan Murphy , one of my Instructors Back when I was Hang Gliding.
He Signed my Hang 2 Rating for me after enough lessons from him , this was 35 + years ago , he worked for Mission Soaring Center at the time . But I still remember him. ( I saw him at Fort Funston a just a week or so before he was Killed , read the comment section under the video for some stories of his life and how he died )

This video is from a long time ago, he survived only because some tree branches softened his crash .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbaNQO4AXng

 

[JackFlorey]

Conventional helicopters can all safely land with complete engine failure, and most of them can safely land with complete and total failure of all powered systems. This is kind of a big deal.

None can land safely with a rotor, mast or swashplate failure. And simple mechanical problems (broken tailrotor shaft) can result in disintegration of the aircraft.

There are no safe quad+rotor designs for carrying people because there are no quad+rotor designs for carrying people. However, once a system like that is certified (likely a hex or octarotor) it will have some potentially significant safety advantages over a single rotor helicopter, including N+1 redundancy of engines _and_ rotors.