Eclipse Concept Jet, 4 seater!

EAA, Aero-News.net, Eclipse Aviation ^ | 7/23/2007 | Eclipse Aviation

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Presenting the Eclipse Concept Jet (ECJ), a single-engine four-place aircraft created by Eclipse Aviation as the ultimate tool for evaluating the emerging single-engine jet marketplace.

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Debuted today at Oshkosh (and on aviation websites).

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[Choose Ye This Day]

Now, THAT’S breaking news!

[rottndog]

Cool.

Just wait until the trial lawyers get their hooks into that.

[randomhero97]

I hope that thing glides well because I would hate to have an engine failure on a single engine aircraft.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Great looking little plane. What does one cost?

[Delta 21]

Sweet.

[Restore]

Hope they end up building it.

For more on the other single jets:

Cool Aviation

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1775,

I don't know. The twin is now 1.5 million, my guess is they would try to get below 1 million.

[ccmay]

I saw a mock-up of this plane's cabin once. I'm a broad shouldered man and it was very cramped for me. The glass cockpit looked good, though. Would love to have one.

-ccm

[Scythian]

I predict one a week crash, now every hick can own an airplane.

[Yo-Yo]

A single engine VLJ makes perfect sense. I think the failure rate among piston engine singles is higher than the failure rate among business jets.

Honda announced that they will build the HF120, so there will be a nice turbofan engine to power VLJs.

(The keyword "aerospace" has been added to this post.)

[ccmay]

I hope that thing glides well because I would hate to have an engine failure on a single engine aircraft.

With piston engines, single-engine planes are safer than light twins. With twice the engines, you are twice as likely to have an engine failure, and when you do, the plane is less controllable. My old flight instructor used to say that having a light twin merely allowed you to crash somewhat closer to the airport than in a single-enine aircraft.

I don't know whether that statistic will carry over to a single engine vs. twin engine light jet. Turbine engines are incredibly reliable, so it's probably a moot point. Weather and pilot error will bring down many more of these little jets than engine failures.

-ccm

[Bringbackthedraft]

Configuration is reminiscent of the WW II German Volksjager.

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Yo-Yo thanks.

How do we get it on the "Aviation-Ping" list?

[Kellis91789]

“... now every hick can own an airplane.”

Because a million bucks is just pocket change to “every hick” ?

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Bttt

[Little Ray]

Its a beauty, but I suspect that they mean four SMALL people in the cabin...

[Yo-Yo]

There are two ping lists. Address a ping reply to Aeronaut or to Paleo Conservative. I still like to get pings from both of them, but I also try to mark any aerospace related thread with the keyword "aerospace" because both of those guys are very selective as to what makes their ping list.

The aerospace keyword works like the banglist keyword, in that if you search on that keyword you get lots more articles than you just get from the pings.

Also, if you run across an article that would interest the community, please add "aerospace" to the keyword, and if enough of us do that then all of the aerospace articles will be easily retrievable.

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Ray, I don't know.

Their twin jet from which this is based is a far bigger bird than let's say a Bonanza.

With using the Twin Engine Eclipse Jet a base, (just look at the nose) I would think eliminating the 2 seats that make it a six place would make it just that much shorter in regards to the fuselage (just a guess on my part).