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Eric Adams—Words/Photos
@EricAdams321
Content @jobyaviation. Career: Wired, Insider, PopMech, Gear Patrol, TheDrive, more. Alum: Men’s Health, PopSci, Air & Space/Smithsonian. Award-winner.
Feb 11, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Lots of talk these days in the #airtaxi crowd about billion-dollar valuations and aircraft progress “milestones.” Whenever this happens I can only think about Virgin Galactic, Icon Aircraft, Eclipse Aviation, and DayJet. Some modest perspective ... 1/x VG at it 17 years now, with only two vehicles, and zero flown customers. Icon at it 15 years, only 100 airplanes sold. Eclipse tried an affordable business jet; DayJet a web-based based air taxi service. (Both this century!) Both are ghosts. 2/x