For You Eclipse Fans

[ReportCanoa]

Just wait for the first crashes, lawsuits and price hikes that follow. Good stuff.

 

[Vsf]

The Eclipse is, at one end of a spectrum, a shiny toy for doctors who are tired of crashing V-tailed Bonanzas and want something to crash faster. This part of the promse will be met, no doubt.

At the other end of the spectrum, it's being touted as a "revolution" that will blanket the skies with Air Taxi service for the masses. It will take years for this to either be proven or disproven.

In the middle, well, an Eclipse certainly can't "out work" a King Air, but a lot of folks don't care; for a 400 nm mission, two or three people, and a few small bags (which probably covers 75% of corporate travel these days) the Eclipse might suffice quite nicely for some.

There must be something worth doing at the small end of the spectum; the Citation Mustang proves that (though it's bigger than the Eclipse, of course). Cessna knows a thing or two about bizjets, I heard they've made one or two in their time...

A lot of us laghed when Robinson came out with its tiny helicopters, and I, personally, have no attraction to them, but they were CHEAP and are now a legendary success story in aviation. That very well may be the case for the Eclipse; it's a cheap CHEAP jet, and if they can surmount insurance issues, then they might succeed.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

The Eclipse is, at one end of a spectrum, a shiny toy for doctors who are tired of crashing V-tailed Bonanzas and want something to crash faster.

I laughed.

(going to hell)

((window seat please))

CE