Allison: Joby is conducting FAA-witnessed testing for aircraft certification
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Eric Allison, Chief Product Officer at Joby Aviation, describes the company's regulatory testing and certification milestones with the FAA for its eVTOL aircraft.
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“We are working on the certification of our aircraft with FAA and what that entails is it's a very intensive process of first working with FAA to define what it means to even be able to design this type of an aircraft. And so setting up the rules essentially, and then working methodically downstream of those rules to kind of define how you're going to meet the rules and all of the different myriad tests that you have to do to prove with documentation and in many cases, FA people actually witnessing the tests that you're doing and signing off, like literally signing off on it, that you are meeting the, those rules and your performance of all of your little parts is mapping to what you agreed to. And that, that's the process that we're in right now.”
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