The Eclipse Personal Jet

Mini Jets Might Be in Your Garage Sooner Than You Think

Have you been told not to look at Eclipse in the eye or it will damage your ability to see? Many Silicon Valley investors are wondering the same thing about miniature jet builder and CEO of Eclipse Aviation. These days, getting the financing is only part of the deal.

Even an experienced finance grower like the CEO of Eclipse can be obfuscated by a dream. The simple realities of spreadsheets pale when the machine you are flying around in bears your name, or a nickname you chose. Can the dream fly? Can it be manufactured dependably? What else can go wrong?

Aviation and business have never been comfortable bedfellows, Aviation used business as a means to an end, using the financing to secure resources for bigger and better planes. Business used aviation to secure highest and best technologies The deep pockets of Palo Alto have not been idle.

Potential investors have been reviewing designs and analyzing models for bringing individual pilot aircraft in a newly industrialized size for many years. Only does Pratt & Whitney make an engine small enough, the OEM companies make attendant machining interdependent enough,

But even dotcom multimillionaires and billionaire angels take heed when the facts and the statistics don't match the heyday of the minicomputer craze. Back then, anyone with the brains to cobble together a machine and slap a brand on the side had a business and an enterprise and a seat at the table.

But the boom of the personal computer may not be the best model for the individual aircraft. But designers have tried to comply. The navigation instruments common on a plane are replaced with computer screens. The throttle now is a joystick, and the interior leather seats might belong to a luxury car.

The Eclipse might be a hybrid of the noun and adjective phrases describing the best automobile features and aviation desires elevated technological consumers want. Irrespective of the purpose these features might have been thrown out of some random technology generator.