December 2008 - Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs
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Even non-buffs might be attracted to the several videos listed on this page , where Cirrus Design officials talk viewers through the concepts, trade-offs, and progress stages involved in building the Cirrus Vision, their forthcoming "personal jet...
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Which follows on this positive update and some earlier sobering news . 1) Another company covering a lot of territory with propeller-driven Cirrus SR-22 airplanes is Midwest Air Taxi , which is based in Iowa and says it serves 450+ airports in the sizeable...
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Attentive readers will be familiar with the trail of tears recounted here , involving the dashed hopes of the small-jet maker Eclipse and the pioneering air-taxi company DayJet . Sigh sigh sigh. But all along, air taxi companies that have flown passengers...