Understanding Joby’s progress toward a certified eVTOL | eVTOL

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Last year, the electric vertical take-off and landing developer Joby Aviation began reporting its progress toward type certification in the form of a chart showing five stages of certification and the percentage of each it had completed. As the company explained in its second quarter 2022 shareholder letter, its intent was “to provide a useful — and standardized — basis on which to evaluate Joby’s progress.”

The chart was a carefully thought-out attempt to distill a convoluted bureaucratic process into something simple to understand. But that hasn’t stopped people from misunderstanding it anyway.

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