Eclipse Aviation will have in play its revolutionary minijet, the Eclipse 500, by mid-2006.
Sam Williams has designed a jet engine that weighs 85 pounds for Eclipse Aviation.
The 52, 000-square-foot structure is a dream taking shape for Vern Raburn, chief executive of Eclipse Aviation.
In July Eclipse Aviation of Albuquerque, New Mexico won U.S. Federal Aviation Administration certification of its minijet.
Eclipse Aviation has already started delivering aircraft and says it could eventually make about 1, 000 a year.
ECONOMIST: Travelling in an executive jet is just the ticket
Vern Raburn, a former Microsoft executive, has set up Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque to make the Eclipse 500.
ECONOMIST: Travelling in an executive jet is just the ticket
He says Eclipse Aviation will be "the world's volume jet leader" in 2008.
Thousands of ultra-light jets being manufactured by companies like Eclipse Aviation will soon take to the skies, further congesting airports.
One of the sponsors of my Albuquerque speech was Eclipse Aviation, which makes the world's first very light jet, the Eclipse 500.
With Eclipse Aviation test pilot Terry Tomeny sitting in the right seat, I flew the newly certified Eclipse 500 off Albuquerque Sunport's Runway 8.
With Eclipse Aviation test pilot Terry Tomeny sitting in the right seat, I flew the newly certified Eclipse 500--the pioneer in a new category of "very light jets"--off Albuquerque International Sunport's runway 8.
Some, like Richardson, are impressively pro-business. (So asserts Vern Raburn, the CEO of Albuquerque-based Eclipse Aviation, and a Republican.) But other Western-style Dems, while "centrist" in their social views, are economically populist and antiglobalist.
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