{"id":195892,"date":"2008-06-07T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/07\/eclipse-launches-4-seat-single-engine-vlj\/"},"modified":"2008-06-07T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T14:12:00","slug":"eclipse-launches-4-seat-single-engine-vlj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/07\/eclipse-launches-4-seat-single-engine-vlj\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse Launches 4 Seat Single Engine VLJ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since their twin engine 6 passenger Eclipse 500 is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">already<\/span> a VLJ, should we call the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/05\/30\/224375\/eclipse-launches-four-seat-vlj-raises-price-on-eclipse.html\">Eclipse 400 a teeny-tiny jet instead<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/very-light-jet-mgf-makes-teeny-jet.html\">noted that they showed a prototype<\/a> almost a year ago, here are the pix from that prototype:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img66.imageshack.us\/img66\/8705\/getassetbb8.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img66.imageshack.us\/img66\/6366\/getassetwi6.gif\" \/><br \/>It&#8217;s going to sell for $1.35 million, and Eclipse is raising the price of it&#8217;s 500 by 33% to 2.15 million.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that this is being driven by two things, that the E-500 is costing more to build than they had hoped, and that there are some single engine VLJs our there, and they are attracting a lot of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since their twin engine 6 passenger Eclipse 500 is already a VLJ, should we call the Eclipse 400 a teeny-tiny jet instead? FWIW, I noted that they showed a prototype almost a year ago, here are the pix from that prototype: It&#8217;s going to sell for $1.35 million, and Eclipse is raising the price of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}