Joby Aviation’s Post

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Adobe, we make all the motors in the plane, not just the propulsion motors for the propellers, but all the pumps and fans and then the actuators. We make all those motors because we can do the lightest, most integrated, most optimized version for this aircraft. So this is the control surface actuator. It controls the ailerons that are in the back of the wing and the rudder vaders on the back of the tail. And this is the pitch servo actuator. This when it spins, the screw moves the pitch of the blades on the propeller. It's pretty unique for an aircraft company to make their own actuators, but we chose to do it because this is such a new technology. And as we go to make another plane or a different version of the plane, we might need a little different motor so we can move super fast. If we know how to do all of those pieces.