Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi developer Joby Aviation has now logged thousands of autonomous flight miles as it seeks to field a self-flying aircraft.
The company on Wednesday revealed it participated in the Defense Department’s Resolute Force Pacific exercise, during which a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan equipped with its Superpilot autonomy system flew more than 7,000 miles.
Joby said the successful exercise will help it compete for future defense contracts on the heels of its collaboration with military contractor L3Harris. The partners aim to fly a gas turbine hybrid, optionally piloted, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) variant of Joby’s S4 air taxi this year.
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