November 2008 - Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs
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It has been coming for a while, and today it came: Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Eclipse Aviation, pioneering maker of the Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet. For more background than you'd want to know, check the posts assembled here . Gives an additional bittersweet...
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... but its goal, operating plan, and marketing language live on in India! Check out the site for MyJet , based in Mumbai, and its upcoming " Per Seat, On-Demand " air taxi service in the subcontinent. "Values" rendering from the site...
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One reason math is so satisfying is that it allows you to see order in what is otherwise the randomness of life. For instance, the famous Fibonacci sequence , which shows up in countless natural patterns like this: Math is also satisfying when it helps...
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Time and again I've praised (or eulogized ) DayJet, the radically innovative but now out-of-business air taxi company based in Florida. And I've praised VMware , the still-in-business California company that lets you run Windows and Mac software...
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A Chinese fighter plane! At least, a 1:48 scale model of one, the domestically-produced 歼-10, or J-10 , courtesy of a friend at AVIC, China's giant aerospace company. Click for larger, including a glimpse of the teeny blue-suited model pilot inside...
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... the innovative, Albuquerque-based small-jet company that appears to be in deep economic distress. Background here . - An irate perspective from a New Mexico political commentator, here . (Sample: "Eclipse has been on the ropes for years, yet...
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Background: the "air taxi" model, discussed in these posts , this article , this book , and this website , is showing viability around the world -- especially with companies using relatively inexpensive SR22 propeller planes from Cirrus, rather...