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Air Taxis & Electric Aerial Ridesharing with Joby Aviation's Oliver Walker-Jones!

The InEVitable

CHAPTER

Early Days and Electric Propulsion Technology

In this chapter, they discuss the early days of the company and their involvement with NASA and the Department of Defense in electric propulsion technology. They mention an aircraft called the X-57, which was designed to test distributed electric propulsion. They also talk about their unique test rigs, including a truck with a wing and a large circle called the Whirly Bird for day and night propeller testing.

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