An anomalous tilt mechanism may have caused the propeller blade failure that brought down Joby’s eVTOL in 2022.
Credit: Joby Aviation
A cascading loss of propellers resulting from a blade failure caused by an anomalous propeller tilt mechanism was the likely cause of the February 2022 crash of a Joby S4 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft during a remotely piloted test flight, the National Transportation Safety...
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