Ampaire over Camarillo, Pathfinder airship in the Bay Area, Joby over Dubai, and BETA Alia in Hamburg
Busy few days in the electric skies!
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Eco Caravan flies 470km in 2 hours
Ampaire’s Eco Caravan is up in the air again earlier this week doing circuit after circuit around Camarillo.
LTA Research Pathfinder 1 over the Bay Area
Pathfinder 1 took a leisurely 90 minute tour from its Moffett Field hangar over the bay bridge and Alcatraz, before heading home. At least one woman on the internet noticed!
Weather reports looked good, so maybe the views were something like this?
Joby flying daily in Dubai
N544JX has been flying pretty well daily over Dubai since the 20th. Its nice seeing so many 90+ km runs, like this one today.
BETA N214BT Denmark to Hamburg
The aircraft Bristow was testing in Norway is now heading south through Europe, today it hopped from Denmark to Hamburg.
Joby N547JX coming alive
We’re seeing lots of ground activity for Joby’s latest aircraft, N547JX. This is the first aircraft Joby has built it to strictly conform to its approved type design; so, should FAA grant certification it will be the first type conforming S4.
The most exciting thing we’ve seen it do are things like this, where it appears to be towed around KOAR.
This Google Earth snapshot helps you visualize it - its starting in the hangar (red marker), and being towed out to … what looks like open tarmac? This imagery is from July 2025, so maybe they’ve built a new building there already.
