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Joby successfully flies between two airports.

The company’s electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft took off from Marina Municipal Airport, where its operations are based, and flew over 12 miles to Monterey Regional Airport through FAA- controlled airspace. Joby calls it “a critical measure of the maturity of the company’s path to commercialization.” I call it “not enough time for an in-flight movie.”

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