Such a great engineering and development model. What's even more credible is that they were taken seriously and moved quickly into full scale proof of concept and certification.

@drgeoffangel5422

7 ай бұрын

The Army and NASA has shown interest, and have supported in the ultimate stealth flying machine!

This was by far the most interesting coverage of Joby that I have seen.

@rangefreewords

Жыл бұрын

They could have cut the engine on chase aircraft.

Unprecedented access to Joby!! That was fantastic!

@rolflandale2565

Жыл бұрын

Practically geniuses. This should've been implemented before or during hand drones were offered. Those fear of evtol days, are over.

@MC-yb5le

Жыл бұрын

@@rolflandale2565the Public fear still exists, for example if you read comments on other sites, people go off on every negative possible. The pessimistic say JOBY will be too dangerous, we already have Helicopters, we don't need eVTOL's, high wind will cause crashes, first crash with injury or death will end this dream, will be too expensive to fly, I'll never fly in one or a pilotless one, where will they land, FAA won't allow, too much competition, won't every happen, and on and on. I disagree with all the pessimism, I am a big JOBY fan. My brother is an expert pilot, he was skeptical at first, then realized, buy buy buy stock or regret at these levels. He admitted he started to buy into a position, a duh moment. We only get a few chances in life to hit a stock large, and this is one, could be a huge success, if you have patience.

@rolflandale2565

Жыл бұрын

@M C Helicopters lack the counter redundancy of multi-engine support. When you compare the dangers of a car and the cruise methods of aircraft, both have a chance of survival with initiative actions. If a classic mono-engine helicopter malfunctions, it will plunge like a rock. The helicopter casualties have a very high death ratio. From famous celebrities to most practical pilots with absolute manual navigation. Jobby has a lot of bureaucracy in structure rendering, but the price is to apply safety.

@rolflandale2565

Жыл бұрын

@@MC-yb5le You should know that, the FAA never allows aircrafts to run until almost a decade test is done, some are lucky its sooner than that.

@JoeZaccaris

Жыл бұрын

@@rolflandale2565 FAA will fast track the certification of Joby and Archer --- they know these aircraft are safe because of redundancy

I’d like to see a test situation with one rotor out of sync due to mechanical failure, to see how the remaining rotors maintain stable flight. It has to be done eventually. 👍 Cool prototype.

@runatrix

Жыл бұрын

yes, if it is possible to fly with 2/6 damaged or more and they are all independent then it would be pretty safe

@jonothandoeser

Жыл бұрын

@@martinuso7446 I doubt that would ever happen though.

@g0thm769

Жыл бұрын

with multiple electric motors, all of which can be controlled independently, if a motor is not performing correctly it can be shutdown & remaining motors receive more power to compensate. Having wing like structures also allows for added lift/glide as opposed to "auto rotating" (aka crashing - falling like a rock) in a traditional helicopter. With six motors as long as if four remain operational this should allow for a controlled landing.

@JoeZaccaris

Жыл бұрын

Let's try to remember that battery packs can also be redundant --- so in order for a catastrophic failure and crash, this aircraft would need more than two rotors to fail as well as multiple battery packs --- literally close to zero chance!

@shoelessjoe428

8 ай бұрын

This is something we need to see. Investors are bright enough to know that the minute one of these things drops out of the sky carrying passengers, their investment could easily go to zero.

Best eVTOL yet. Addresses the biggest concern. .. noise.

Thoroughly impressed with just how quiet and SMOOTH that craft is....amazed!

OMG! Kirsten i can't thank you enough for such a detailed comprehensive video on Joby and its progress! THANK YOU!

@kirstendirksen

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@paulratzlaff2935

Жыл бұрын

What a waste of time and energy! Just imagine the skies plugged with this stuff ; all beteen 50 and150 feet elevation!!!? What a train wreck waiting to happen! Probably another Federal Funded project! A crony capitalist funded project !😆😡

@PeterParker-wj3cr

Жыл бұрын

@@paulratzlaff2935 All personal opinions welcomed! Thank you!

I almost thought Joby was just a shady business. Thnx for showing this vid. It’s great it actually exists

@MC-yb5le

Жыл бұрын

Thousands of us own JOBY stock, not a con man, reel deal. Don't miss out.

I was privileged to work for one of the first non-Government businesses to work with pre-preg carbon fiber. The company built light weight large racing sailboats, IACC and AC boats. I started on the first in 1990. The boats we built won a lot of races. Now the tech is everywhere. It is very cool to see the advances. One of the other companies nearby made spars - they had an autoclave, we weren't allowed to use one.

Did my streams just merge? I am subscribed to the tech-channels and to the home-building channels but now this video crosses the boundaries!

Great video! Love how you were able to safely take off, fly and land the Joby safely with minimal coaching. Great semi-autoflight programming of a complex dynamic system. Brilliant!

This was the most comprehensive coverage of the project I have seem. 👍

Those things are so fun to fly after a few drinks

We are living in some incredible times. I am SO excited to see what we do over the next two decades with tech!

@laska907

Жыл бұрын

I can’t wait until we rapidly surpass electric motors and get into plasma propulsion

@jareknowak8712

Жыл бұрын

If i could choose, i woud take the cure for cancer and solution to the hunger problem over any electric car.

@shaunhall960

Жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@runatrix

Жыл бұрын

​@@xargs0095 as long as their battery and other material production and disposal are safe

@runatrix

Жыл бұрын

@@jareknowak8712 that one seems harder, if you feed people they reproduce more and then there are 2x, 3x,.. the amount of people with hunger

Happy Holidays and Thank You for all of the great videos.

I really love how quiet it is. None of that energy wasted in making droning noise.

@edouble0325

Жыл бұрын

That thing is amazing!! Hopefully battery tech will take the leap and and put an end to 100LL finally

@Helloverlord

Жыл бұрын

Anything is quiet if you recorded it 300ft away...

@worldview2134

Жыл бұрын

It’s an osprey

@teekanne15

Жыл бұрын

@@Helloverlord they showed different sound signature of various aircraft’s at the same distance and mentioned that this thing is below 70dB at lift off

@TheRoomboom

Жыл бұрын

What is the sound power at take off compared to helicopters or planes ? How does it match the WHO requirements in the envrironment (55 dB Lden) ? The 65 dB commented in the video does not mean anything : is it pressure ? Where with respect to the source ? Envisioning this kind of things closer to densely populated area than current aircraft will certainly come with noise pollution issue and sorry but the only comparison is in fly by for which you are comparing to non noise regulated aircraft - being « quieter » than unregulated source does not mean anything (apart from the fact that there is indeed a huge noise issue with those objects)

Very cool. I like how quiet it is.

That extraordinary sound profile is a winner!

Incredible! Thank you for sharing.

Amazing work from Joby Aviation, it's definitely a good step into the future⚡.

I have a lifetime of experience building model planes and doing composites for aerospace and the Joby is by far the best and most advanced eVTOL. For a while they were right down the road from me here in Redwood City before moving out of the old Miracle Auto painting shop and into a larger space when they got the funding. This is by far the best eVTOL video on Utube! Thanks Joby and good liuck.

Whoa.. the longer the video went, the more you could see what a serious business with serious funding this is. Amazing stuff!

It's an elaborate helicopter, nothing resembles a car.

@blueman5924

Жыл бұрын

Closer to an Osprey military plane.

@StephenKarl_Integral

Жыл бұрын

Yes ! Exactly my first thought, thanks for pointing it out. I believe the Robinson R-22 would be a little smaller when I look at the wingspan (+ fans), and from my experience in drones (quad), losing one engine is quite dramatic (immediate loss of control due to assymetry), nowhere near the "chill" you feel when you have power loss on an R-22, you maintain level and you can autorotate if you're high enough.

@kennethhawley1063

Жыл бұрын

Very little in common wirh a conventional helicopter nearer to a large rc model aircraft/drone.

@kherve4255

Жыл бұрын

They are always helicopters with extra steps

@kitesurferlee

Жыл бұрын

Yes it does it has three wheels like a Robin Reliant 😂

WOW i watched you for tiny homes, never expected you to do a video like this!

This is so amazing! I'm looking forward to calling a sky cab.

@Coupe420

Жыл бұрын

I cant wait to pay 250$ to fly 4 min away!!!

So cool to see Kirsten Dirksen doing a piece on Joby!

this is the first evtol that actually looks like it might make any sense whatsoever. hitting the nail on the head with the noise pollution concerns, everyone says they want flying cars or a helipad in their back yard, until they have to live with the noise. 6 rotors for redundancy in motor failure in a hover, and manual elevator and ailerons for total power loss landings from forward flight. it will be interesting to see if they can get it certified.

6:22 "...because the last thing that we need is just another buzzing thing." This got a laugh out of me. What a good way to put it!

@paulratzlaff2935

Жыл бұрын

What does that thing cost ?

@TohaBgood2

Жыл бұрын

Argh, not another pod gadgetbahn company that wants to build something like a train but not as good as a train.

Much quieter than I thought, well done. It needs some distance to houses because of the air turbulences it generates, but there will be enough use cases intercity for such an airplane.

Really like the high/new tech content 👍👍👍

Wow, I have subscription to like 10 different eVTOL channels, but somehow I've missed Joby, subscribed now! thanks

Beautifully informative video, and well shot! Thank you for that.

That's always been a big criticism I have had with these flying electric vehicles, most of them are super-noisy. I am glad noise pollution was key in the design of this very complex vehicle. The tilting rotors are a marvel of engineering. I hope the mechanics are reliable. The Osprey used by the US Military, and uses a titling rotor mechanism, has massive reliability issues with the tilt mechanisms. Thanks for covering this company!

This thing is next level! What an achievement!

This is great. I've always been suspicious of VTOL transport videos that don't show you how loud they are. That's the thing that will determine if they're allowed in cities close enough to populated areas to be useful for their intended role.

@StephenKarl_Integral

Жыл бұрын

A remote quad drone less than a kilogram is subject to a bunch of regulations most people aren't aware of. People are hyped by the positive potential exclusively, they always forget about the 80% other important things : safety, qualifications, infrastructure, regulation of shared space, maintainance and spare parts/qualified vendors and contractors, tested and validated overall systems, operation and management........ At the end of the day (or the decade), it always all come down to what people didn't expect : the operational constraints doesn't meet lambda people expectations in terms of costs or complications, only a few elite will have access to the privilege or service, sometiles via costy dérogation or because you're a billionaire authorities may have trouble challenging. I don't even have a licence to fly an ultralight on my own from an airfield (we steal the flying time of a qualified pilot) and I have a thousand times the knowledge a lambda anyont have in terms of flying and rules/regulation, I know how sensible of a qualification it is, I cannot trust putting any of that very advanced tech vehicles in the hands of the first _"oh gosh it's so dope, I also want a flying car"_ dude : that's a recipe for disaster and drama. If people are regularly going down the road to change the chips of a drone toy to exceed the built-in altitude limitation by regulation, what kind of stupid rules breaking they would intentionally or inadvertently do with a "flying car"? Sharing airspace with people and properties below is the opposite of "having fun", you do care about at all times and abide by the rules, there is NO WAY you decide where you go, just like medevac ops today, you wait for instructions (air traffic control) and you strictly follows virtually already defined limited set of flight routes. We don't want that thing flying over schools or other areas with dense flocks of people walking, there must be regular suitable emergency crash land sites along the routes, like a stadium, highways, corn fields... The only "your fancy extraordinary personal car" that may find birth in a city is the one that meets all those conditions, like Tesla autopilot where a connected centralized service decides how to drive the car. For a flying car, it will be the same : you're not the one to have command, you just input a destination, then the company owning the service flies you there on through defined standardized flight paths and standardized connected "other fellow air travellers in nearby vehicles". That way, we get lambda people out of the equation in terms of training/qualification, and we get all vehicles standardized in terms of regulations, flight rules and behavior. Or else, no personal car, you go to a flying taxi port and you rent the service with a fully qualified trained pilot that will do his best to get you to another port/other places with special derogatory privileges, but he/she remains who has the last word. Hope this helps you have a better window displaying what will slowly take place in the future, so you don't build the wrong expectations from the start..

@12washere

11 ай бұрын

@@StephenKarl_Integral woah, well explained sir

Best tangent video ever. The future is amazing.

"It is a textile basically." I love these bits.

Great to see their progress. Joby could be the Telsa of the skies in a few years.

Wow. Well done. Thanks for the video. Good job. Good people

Nice 👍The noise isn’t as loud as I’ve expected. Very nice 👍

@pctrashtalk2069

Жыл бұрын

I imagine it is really louder in person?

Wow. That reeks of ingenuity and foresight. Really well filmed and documented. It's odd that this effort has not gotten more attention from the aviation press . . . or maybe I've somehow missed it. Amazing amount of development has gone into this project. Really smart people.

@MC-yb5le

Жыл бұрын

You've missed out, PBS showed a documentary on The Future of Electric flight 3 years ago. I've followed JOBY since, actually i buy every time the stock goes under $4, no regrets.

Very interesting, Kirsten and Nicolás. ✨

This is yet another step in the needed reduction of decarbonizing. As much as I would love to see it, I don’t see us completely decarbonizing air travel due to the energy density of fossil fuels. But, there are perfect examples like this, where short hops are easily converted. Thanks for bringing these to light!

Go Joby! Whispering comfort and speed❤

Mind blown thank you. What a treat to see everything behind the scenes. So many competent, knowlegeable and hard working human beings. AWESOME

@kirstendirksen

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@last7509

Жыл бұрын

People ridicule when I say this is about to explode. Maybe they majored in physics or whatever but I'm telling you they are going to make this thing explode. They have tech you never heard of and this is obviously the plan.

I can see the use for this in scenic tours maybe for looking at glaciers and famous city scapes where you don’t want to disturb the people with too much noise. Very cool I like that it’s quiet.

@MC-yb5le

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, obviously you rarely visit or live in a congested city, for example: LA, NY, Dallas, Washington DC, Mexico City, Tokyo, South Korea and 100's of other congested cities across the world, each city named has a never ending growth with gridlock traffic. Joby will work in all types of scenarios. Delta airlines/JOBY are working together in the future to bring customers directly to the airport, then fly wherever. Delta realizes JOBY is changing the game, save more time for fun/work vs wasting time driving in gridlock traffic. I agree, JOBY will be a great addition to Tourists, moving tourists or workers between islands for example:Belize, Hawaii, Vancouver island, Indonesia to name a few of the 1000's of tourists spots in the world where JOBY can be a vital transportation and learning tool.

Thank you K.

Nicely vertically integrated! FWIW "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (2006).

Kirsten, your husband is way more intelligent than he lets on 😉 Thanks for this awesome clip. Totally different but so totally cool and definitely not out of place on your channel. I have to say that out of all the channels I've subscribed to the video editing;almost seamless cinematic transitions; perfect flow of narration..... Perfectly shared capture of both your husband's voice and your voice on the 1 clip is just perfect 👌 By far the most improved channel of all my subscriptions. The improvement has felt organic and natural progression. Well done!

@risasb

Жыл бұрын

Two terrific minds in harness.

@kirstendirksen

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I agree that my husband definitely has a more in-depth knowledge of most topics than I (he really does love reading about nearly any topic). Thank you for your comments on the editing. It's very labor intensive so appreciate when people notice.

@jenny216

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

The military would love this thing as a small insertion vehicle for small units. Areas that have a lot of islands would be great too. Thing is, it needs to seat 5-7 people, or else it won't replace anything that a helicopter can do.

@ilyarepin7750

Жыл бұрын

sooooo an Osprey?

@abakrem

Жыл бұрын

It will be a fraction of the cost to run, and quiet, win win.

@StephenKarl_Integral

Жыл бұрын

_"it needs to seat 5-7 people..."_ I'm not an engineer, but I'm aware the huge problem of electric flying things is _"not having enough battery to maintain that thing flying for hours _*_the heavier it gets"_* Unlike fossil energy that packs a lot of punch for a small drop of toxic fuel, electricity is like blowing a sheet of paper to maintain it airborne, so, how many people lungs and mouth do you need to maintain a book airborne ? The answer for electric aircraft is... just like airplanes : if you want to lift heavier mass, forget about V/STOL, you need a runway and trade time+distance for potential energy to be converted to lift via wings.

Great video despite some rather newbie interviewing questions!

Absolutely fascinating. I cant wait to see this kind of tech reach commercial fruition.

This is a fantastic video so many ideas to go so many different ways especially that motor he was showing to definitely lends itself to doing something different mobility or efficiency this is where we should put our energy into this kind of thing I could see that changing our country….

It's so quiet, it can be a military aircraft.

Super impressive! Definitely a scoop 🙂

This is AMAZING! Perfect combination of drone and airplane!

It seems to have variable pitch props. This is not common and although increases complexity, it should be smoother in the the hover and faster in forward flight. Reaction time of hover flight controls is much faster like this .. Very interesting

There are so many things that come to mind. What about safety? Can it glide and land as a normal airplane would. What happens when one or two propellers fail? Will it fly on it's own? The future is so exciting. Love this video Kirsten, very well done. I would like to see more of this company. Go go.

Great design, great video thanks for sharing.

That looks awesome

They just gave another name to the combination of helicopter + plane, this one being silent when is flighting, but unable to walk through ordinary streets.

The Jetsons have finally arrived!!

@frelema

Жыл бұрын

😄

@frelema

Жыл бұрын

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@pipe2devnull

Жыл бұрын

Jane, get me outa this crazy thing!

@EricBishard

Жыл бұрын

I mean, this thing come easily just pull out of your garage and go.

@EricBishard

Жыл бұрын

I mean this thing could easily just pull out of your garage and go... 🙄

I have yet to see a Joby video discussing the possibility of an emergency parachute. Obviously, the weight of such a system would compromise performance and increase cost. I'm guessing there isn't enough wing surface area to glide the aircraft to a controlled crash if the electrical system shorts or multiple propellers are compromised in bird flock strikes.

Wow, what a place to work !!! A dream come true for any engineer! First class all the way guys 👍 Need a solidworks guy 😂

Very good video! Definitely think this is the direction to go as far as electric Vtol goes. Would you have a BRS? Glide ratio during complete power loss?

@StephenKarl_Integral

Жыл бұрын

From what I see, seems that's not (yet) part of the design.

It looks like the Aptera with rotors, great video

Great story and video. Thanks for bring this to our attention. Kristen, did you get the feeling this product was being over sold? That there presentation was manufactured to look better for the interview?

@joby during forward flight is it possible to have some of those props regen the battery? Since the wing is doing some work at that point?

@tvm73836

Жыл бұрын

Regen = Drag

Jist wondering if the charging/ fuel aspect was compared.... Also maintenence and materials used in the building of each would also be another noteworthy point.

this is for sure going to be the future

@jonothandoeser

Жыл бұрын

If. it is we're going to need a LOT bigger parking lots.

@jonothandoeser

Жыл бұрын

@Miraak Imagine trying to get that thing into multi-level parking!

I think Joby has the best eVOTL design hands down. They just need to incorporate full automation with automated flight controller for air traffic. They also need to incorporate battery packs, so you can land at a skyport and have machine that can swap the batteries automatically in just a few minutes.

Really liking their approach to building this. Low profile without a bunch of hype - and getting it done!

@MC-yb5le

Жыл бұрын

However, the real fun is only starting, how to build 25, 50, and 100 JOBY's a year will be a monumental task. Main reason Toyota partnered early to help and refine the JOBY building process. Joby will need to build 1000's to crush the competition, who is late to the party, and/or years behind.

@JoeZaccaris

Жыл бұрын

@@MC-yb5le do not doubt the power of scaled manufacturing with Toyota's expertise --- Joby definitely found the right partner

Just Awesome!

Very Exciting, well explained, I enjoyed this very much.

Hosts are clearly not technically literate about anything aviation, so asking mostly irrelevant questions but nice to see the facilities and prototypes

I need a Joby!

Wow, thank you 🙂

More please!

And how does it fly with people onboard? II didn't see any payload/proxy weight .... as you load the props the sound produced will increase... if there is no load on them then I would expoect about half the db....what is your net vs gross ? And battery is...? range at gross? so many questions, and the y really do matter. As shown , you have a lightly loaded drone... your control solutions seem great instable forward and stationary... how do you go with turbulance ? and aysmetric load?

This is so Great 👍 of next Gen equipment, this maybe a great new idea for emergency transportation for urgent site to Trauma cases

@StephenKarl_Integral

Жыл бұрын

Actually, what you suggest is the very rare case the concept seems viable, economically and in terms of realism, as a quieter successor to helicopters. We need the practicallity of helicopters, but going electric drones-like crafts comes at a risk yet to be solved : assymetric lift => total loss of control. If they are reliable enough (statistics) or we come up with some sort of compromise (like trade payload for redundancy or safety equipment), then having qualified pilots manning them is acceptable (not the lambda anyone casually flying and encoutering a flock of birds, not trained enough to react on the spot).

Awesome Tech Vtol.

CHRIST! This is exciting!

Lake Tahoe or Aspen? Excellent Cali Arizona, Utah, and UAE aircraft. Nice work!

Nice flying car;)✨

Thanks for your video, this is what I planed to do

Amazing!

Great video! What a nightmare for those workers doing hand lamination. I hope they are paid well.

Nice. Thats the first time Ive seen a full sized eVTOL fly with motors in full cruise position (fully forward). Still Id hate the bill for prop maintenance...and what happens if any or the motor tilt mechanism's fail?

@StephenKarl_Integral

Жыл бұрын

In vertical/transit mode, with 4 fans, you immediately shut or feather the opposite fan. Same thing with 6 rotors, but you must be trained to manage the failure and that would take at least 50 hours on that matter, it's not a plane which is much less subject to loss of control/getting out of an uncontrolled spin. Here you add the quirks of unpredictable aerodynamics interactions with that much lift/thrust components. The solution : training. A welcome help is augmented flight, where computers will deal with asymmetry issues right away before any abrupt loss of control (less likely in cruise mode) and inform you. But since electricity will get depleted at one point, trained qualified pilot is still mandatory. For the tilt motion in itself (mechanical failure or computer glitch), it's the same : training/fast recovery and redundancy : you can make the mechanism redundant, and make the software have a default fallback basic mode, plus redundant integrity checks to detect malfunctions (either via sensors/switches or software data mismatch). That should prevent mechanism desync. Then, when the computers support get overwhelmed, it entirely gives up and let the qualified pilot override everything : fly the damn thing (manually configure tilt, then recover), find where you are and decide where you go, then inform everybody else of the situation. If you can't recover, better be high enough, have a fast breaking system in the rotors (emergency shutdown) and a two sequence high spin high velocity chute. As I said elsewhere, based on the fans position and the tilt motion, best chute position would be in the tail, not above the fuselage, but that also means you land on the nose, hopefully slow enough to not get hurt and potentially repair the vehicle.

wow actually amazing

I will put in drive way for sure, can't wait no more traffic jams!!

Very cool tech!

Those are the tiniest wheels I ever saw on a 'Car'.. maybe you mean.. flying Shopping trolley?

Awesome, thanks

how much does it weigh and how much weight can it carry? I have so many questions, this is awesome, Thank You

How many passengers can fly in this airplane? I suspect it might be for two or three persons. It would have been interesting to know about the sound level in the craft. Anyway, we had a great view of the blades in action, mesmerizing! I hope that this flying creation becomes more popular. Leonardo Da Vinci would be happy to see this!

Electric plane even quieter than my drone, that's great.

amazing

So high tech and is pulled with a rope on the track. :)

Whats the best of the three aviation companies, although slightly different in mission ... Archer, Wisk, or Joby??

is there redundancy around single-motor failures...for instance, can it hover on one motor on a wing, assuming all other motors are fully-powered?

@StephenKarl_Integral

Жыл бұрын

Yes. 6 fans has computer managed compensation for a single engine failure. It exists on remote controlled drones, it should already be implemented on this demonstrator. You lose some power (thrust/lift), therefore, flight/hover capability depends on loading, the lighter you get, the better it will manage. For a symetrical dual engine failure, it's the same principle, but depending on the axis, hover capability may become unavailable. For more failures, like in case of a flock of birds strikes or you get caught in an hail storm, it would fly in cruise mode with 3 engines or less but you would have to land at high speed (you need a runway). Your available range would depend on the number of operational engines and the load (mass). In hover/STOL mode, you'll lose control right away, probably at a rate of 10-15° tilt per second on average. In that case, a chute seems inevitable, but it probably has to be computer activated, because you don't want the fans to sever the chute. And immediate complete engines shutdown and an explosion driven deployment seems appropriate, activated fast enough before the spin rate get too high. Drawback : false positive activation, the system must be extremely reliable at detecting the failures, especially multiple fans inflight breakup. However, this only matters in V/STOL engine position : in cruise, your engines must stay operative and the chute must not deply unless a specific decision from you. In that case, it seems, the best chute position is in the tailcone, meaning you'll land on the nose. blah blah blah... isn't it ? :D ^^ That's one though process addressing your concern, and they are way ahead of me on that matter, but that doesn't mean they had to address all that right now. They only have one demonstrator, you need another to perform 1:1 scale testings, so, be patient, the result of their work (if conclusive) is a long road to walk...