Eclipse Concept Jet
The latest plane from Eclipse Aviation is the Eclipse Concept Jet, a a single-engine four-place aircraft. The concept plane represents Eclipse's vision of what a single engine VLJ should be. It's not for sale and is being used for market research.
Aero News Network was there for the first flight of the plane, a 70 minute trip on July 2, and has photos and videos of the experience. The plane was built in just over 200 days. The goal is to have the the plane hit goals of 345 knots, 41,000 feet and a range in excess of 1250 nautical miles. No word yet on when or if the concept will go into production.
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Zdravko STARE Aug 16th 2007 1:22AM
Eclipse Concept jet is nice airplane and it's will revolution on general aviation market. It's will to the future exchange airplane with clip engine. I hope that will be a on the market for concurent price. I want to it !!!
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