Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Electric air taxi developer Joby Aviation stated on April 27 that it will begin a weeklong testing campaign in New York City, having successfully completed three days of test flights across the city’s heliport network.
ANA Holdings and Joby Aviation show a public demonstration flight of the Joby N5.42JX flying car at the World Expo 2025 Osaka in Osaka, Japan, on Oct. 13, 2025. Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty ImagesJoby’s electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi launched from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and made stops at Downtown Skyport on the southern tip of Manhattan, West 30th St. heliport on the West Side, and E. 34th St. Heliport on Manhattan’s eastern waterfront.
The routes are potential commercial flight patterns for Joby Aviation’s electric air taxis that could quietly and with zero operating emissions traverse Manhattan in less than 10 minutes, the company stated.
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, travel times across Manhattan average 32 minutes or less, but rush hour traffic significantly slows travel times. Traveling the roughly 17 miles from JFK in Queens to midtown Manhattan can take travelers up to 90 minutes or longer.
“This week, flying between JFK and Manhattan, we showed what the White House-backed eIPP initiative makes possible and offered New York a look at what’s coming,” said JoeBen Bevirt, Joby founder and CEO.
Joby Aviation was one of eight proposals picked in early March by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to participate in the DOT’s Advanced Air Mobility Program and eVOTL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP). The program, part of President Donald Trump’s Unleashing American Drone Dominance Executive Order announced in June 2025, is aimed at accelerating commercial adoption of electric air taxis and drones for urban transportation, logistics, emergency services, and autonomous flight.
The New York City Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC), along with heliport operators Vertiports by Atlantic and Skyports Infrastructure, stated that it will begin electrifying the city’s heliport charging infrastructure ahead of potential commercial air taxi service.
“NYCEDC is thrilled to usher in New York City’s transition to electric flight, and these flights mark a real milestone in that journey,” Jeanny Pak, NYCEDC interim president and CEO, said in a statement.
The three days of test flights required close coordination between Joby Aviation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
“These demonstration flights are one data point in a larger body of work we’re building around next-generation electric aviation, and it reflects our conviction that responsible exploration of these technologies now is how we prepare this region for the future,” said Kathryn Garcia, executive director of the Port Authority.
Joby noted that it will leverage its existing partnerships with Delta Airlines and Uber to create an end-to-end transportation solution from JFK to destinations throughout Manhattan that include air and ground transportation and could reduce travel times from one to two hours to less than seven minutes.
Delta in 2022 made a $60 million equity investment in the electric air-taxi startup, which could eventually ramp up to $200 million if Joby hits certain development milestones. Uber announced in late February that it would begin Joby eVOTL-powered passenger flights in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, later this year.
Joby noted that it is also working through the final stages of obtaining FAA certification so that pilots can begin for-credit testing, a crucial step for commercial flight operations.
Tyler Durden Tue, 04/28/2026 - 18:25Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
“The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn’t be afraid of the government.” ― Edward Snowden
“The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe into that domain of personal or individual freedoms that during the American Revolution was called “liberty” and during the Internet Revolution is called “privacy.” ― Edward Snowden
None of what is happening is an accident or happenstance. Everything that has happened since 2019 is part of their diabolical plan to impoverish, cull, and enslave you in a technological gulag, sold to the ignorant masses as technological advancement, improvement of our lives, and protection from whatever bogeyman they designate. They want to digitize and electrify your entire existence, so they can control you, milk you like cows, and slaughter you at a time of their choosing.
The financial system began to unravel in September 2019 and the ruling class needed to accelerate their Agenda 2030 Great Reset plan. The Fed balance sheet, which had surged from $1 trillion in 2008 to over $4 trillion after the Wall St./Fed created financial crisis, was being reduced slowly to $3.8 trillion, but that was too much for our decrepit debt dependent system, and the repo market froze up.
The Fed panicked and started printing again. Conveniently, Gates and the WEF tested their fake pandemic plan at Event 201 in October 2019. They worked out the kinks and rolled it out across the globe in January 2020. Maximum fear and the greatest PR campaign in history for the annual flu resulted in a global shutdown, allowing the Fed to increase their balance sheet to $9 trillion, a 140% increase in a matter of months. Meanwhile, the politicians did their part by driving the national debt from $23 million to it’s current level of $39 trillion, a 70% increase.
It now requires more and more new debt to service the old debt ($1.3 trillion per year of interest on the debt), so the Fed was only able to get their balance sheet to just below $7 trillion, before the system started to break again. They have begun increasing it once more. Nothing like an unnecessary war on behalf of Israel to drive the national debt to above $40 trillion and keep the printing presses humming. They know this empire of debt is unsustainable and in imminent danger of collapse, so they are accelerating the AI based technological prison phase of their plan.
Does anyone in their right mind believe the thousands of data centers they want to build are to benefit the average person? Of course not. These data centers will power your enslavement. And if you think one of the political parties will save you, then you aren’t paying attention. The uni-party is designed to screw you and benefit themselves. Electric cars to save the planet was, and still is, a ridiculous idea, unless those controlling the levers of power want an easy way to automatically keep you from traveling. Since the electric car boondoggle has petered out, both parties cooperated to install kill switches in all gas powered new cars starting in 2027. How exactly is that beneficial to the average person. They hate you and do not care what you think or want.
It is the same story with the CBDCs. How do they benefit the average person? They don’t. They will be able to track and tax every transaction you make. They will be able to create a profile based upon your spending. They will then use their AI tools to determine pre-crimes and arrest you in advance. If you make a social media post or comment offensive to the empire, your social credit score will be downgraded and you will be denied travel and grocery privileges. This is the techno-gulag these billionaire psychopaths in suits dream about. And they are accelerating these plans at breakneck speed. When they decide to pull the rug on this teetering financial system, the CBDCs will be the lifeline they offer.
Ed Dowd, former portfolio manager at BlackRock: The COVID vaccines "were designed to take care of a pension problem with the boomers, and then bring in 10 to 15 million younger, mostly male folks as replacement population."
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Ed Dowd’s suspicions about the Covid scamdemic are entirely accurate. It was the lynch pin of the depopulation phase of the Great Reset. With the average age of death during Covid of over 80 (from remdesivir and ventilators), they relieved the financial pressure from Social Security and Medicare. The Covid “vaccine” has been the more insidious method of depopulation. Some batches murdered their injectees immediately. Other batches are killing people through myocarditis and turbo cancers. It caused pregnant women to lose their babies. And it has reduced fertility rates across the board.
Replacing native white Americans with low IQ third world dregs is alive and well. Trump is not deporting the tens of millions of illegal invaders, like he promised. Young foreign males commit an inordinate amount of crime and these lowlifes accelerate the destruction and bankruptcy of our welfare system. Both parties cooperated to not pass the SAVE Act, meaning they want illegals to vote in our elections and do the bidding of those pulling the strings.
The billionaire overlords want chaos, economic suffering, and the destruction of the traditional family. And they appear to be winning. If the citizens of this country had a backbone, this KILL SWITCH moment would trigger our current day BOSTON TEA PARTY. But, I’m afraid we are too far gone, too soft, too sedated, too distracted, too cowardly, and too dumbed down to notice. So it goes.
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Tyler Durden Tue, 04/28/2026 - 17:40