Joby flying .... in Salinas?

Quite the photo op, Joby S4 and Archer Midnight in the same shot

Joby flew their S4 to Salinas today, landed, waited for ~ 90 seconds, then took off again.

Salinas and Marina are both towns around San Jose California. Salinas is Archer’s base, and Marina is Joby’s. It made the news recently when Joby flew a few kilometres to Monterrey California - this time, they made a similar short flight, but to Archer’s HQ in Salinas.

Someone got quite the photo of it:

Joby S4 in the foreground, Archer’s hangar and aircraft in the background

Photo credit: https://x.com/oliwalkerjones/status/1968835928111092002?s=46

Here’s a graph showing speed and altitude focused on the touch down, which specifically was 15:57:42 to 15:58:12 by our data (eastern time likely).

Animation of the flight, paused at the landing spot - a picture perfect center-point of runways 8/26 and 13/31.

It does look like they used the runway as the approach vector, which only makes sense.