{"id":199412,"date":"2007-07-31T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/31\/very-light-jet-mfg-makes-teeny-jet\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T23:27:00","slug":"very-light-jet-mfg-makes-teeny-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/31\/very-light-jet-mfg-makes-teeny-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Light Jet Mfg Makes Teeny Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eclipse, whose Eclipse 500 very light jet pretty much launched the segment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/27\/215647\/pictures-airventure-eclipse-unveils-even-lighter-vlj-prototype.html\">has unveils a single engine teeny weenie jet prototype<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this is Eclipse hedging its bets.  It has a lot of orders, but from air-taxi services, which are an unproven business model, so it could be left with egg on its face.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this may be bet hedging.  It&#8217;s a bit small for air-taxi services, but as a personal jet it seems about the right size, with a 1+3 cabin, as opposed to the 500&#8217;s 1+5 cabin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img66.imageshack.us\/img66\/8705\/getassetbb8.gif\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img66.imageshack.us\/img66\/6366\/getassetwi6.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Swift Engineering of San Clemente, California was contracted to assist with the design and build the ECJ in slightly over six months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwift Engineering has been a tremendous partner, and was instrumental in taking this new aircraft from design to flight test so rapidly,\u201d says Raburn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Six months is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> impressive.  My guess would be that this is a product of their experience with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friction_stir_welding%20\">friction stir welding<\/a>, which among other things, allows dissimilar materials to be welded,  which has largely been responsible for the low cost of the Eclipse 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eclipse, whose Eclipse 500 very light jet pretty much launched the segment has unveils a single engine teeny weenie jet prototype. I think that this is Eclipse hedging its bets. It has a lot of orders, but from air-taxi services, which are an unproven business model, so it could be left with egg on its &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-199412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199412"}],"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=199412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}