Joby Aviation has caused quite the stir on social media, but not in the fashion the firm may have wanted.
The firm has been demoing its fully electric aircraft, flying from JFK airport in Queens to Manhattan in recent days, as it hopes to replace the hour-long car commute with just 10-minute journeys in the sky.
The futuristic-looking design of the aircrafts, which resembles somewhere between a helicopter and a drone, is capable of reaching speeds of up to 200mph.
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However, the name, Joby, has certainly amused Scots online, with one influencer cheekily claiming there’s “obviously no Scottish people on the board of directors”.
Rea Reads Books took to Instagram to share her experience with “jobbies” in the US city that has left her followers “cackling” and “crying” over the revelation.
“I’m a Scottish person that lives in New York and they’ve just brought back these helicopters that are gonna take people from Manhattan to JFK and they’ve called them jobbies,” Rea said.
She added: “Hold on, I’ve just got us a wee jobby to come pick us up and take us to the airport.
“Oh, there’s a wee joby in the sky. Must be taking people on holiday.
“There’s obviously no Scottish people on the board of directors at Jobbi Aviation.”
Scots were quick to flock to the comment section to share their amusement over Joby Aviation’s name, with one person telling Rea, “you need to be the Scottish person on the board”.
Meanwhile, another person commented: “Never in my lifetime would I think I would see a flying jobbie, but here we are.”
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With another adding: “This is your captain speaking. Please remain seated until your Jobby has come to a complete stop.”
One person commented: “Jobbies can fly now!”
With a fourth saying: “I need u to get on a joby.”
One of Joby Aviation’s biggest claims is that its aircrafts are a quieter option than other aviation modes of transport, with the company also adamant that its electric aircraft is not a helicopter.
“It’s an aircraft, but that’s about the only similarity,” Eric Allison, chief product officer at Joby Aviation, told the Guardian on Monday.
“It takes off and lands vertically, like a helicopter, but it has six propellers, which point up when it’s taking off and landing, and then they tilt forward to allow forward flight like an aircraft.”