Joby And BETA Fly North Texas Skies Under Federal Air Taxi Integration Program

Joby Aviation and BETA Technologies have begun flying their electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft under a federal integration program in North Texas, moving the effort from planning stage into actual flight testing. Both companies are operating their aircraft within the same program rather than running separate, unrelated trials, putting two distinct eVTOL designs into the same regulatory framework at the same time. More demonstration flights are scheduled across North Texas through the weekend. For owners watching how electric aircraft will eventually share controlled airspace with turbine traffic, this is the program where those procedures are being flown, not just drafted.

With reporting from AVweb.