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Re:YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “f... by 11thEarlOfMar on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:20PM (#19335045)
"The Speeder is “at least” two years of development time away from ending up in customer hands."

vs.

"Joby Aviation has spent the last decade developing their own electric motors and their current VTOL design from the ground up." [0]

I'd guess that it's at least two years after development has completed in order to get through final certifications for whichever regulatory agencies have a say in this.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/08/the-electric-aircraft-is-t...

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Re:YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “f... by dmayman on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:13AM (#19335282)
The 1/3rd scale prototype is flying. In a number of ways what we’re doing is simpler than JA. We’re confident we can achieve our time goals.
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Re:YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “f... by themodelplumber on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:53AM (#19335658)
> The 1/3rd scale prototype is flying

I remember this lesson from watching _Flight of the Phoenix_. :-) Congratulations!

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