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This news has been brewing for weeks, but it appears to have reached a critical point. The assets of the ill-fated Eclipse Aviation company, whose rise is described here and here , and demise here and here , may be sold at auction today to a new group of investors doing business as Eclipse Aerospace...
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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 area below: 2) As several readers have reminded...
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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 not in the spiffy new Eclipse jets but rather...
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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 twist to the splash page on the company's...
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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: For background on this whole concept, see this...
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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 seamlessly side-by-side on a Mac. Now it turns...
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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 our political and economic establishment kept pumping...
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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 than faster-but-costlier small jets. Transportation...
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1. Miwok : As mentioned recently , yet another air taxi company has started up. This one, Miwok Airways , is using small, posh Cirrus SR22 propeller-driven airplanes and serving Southern California roughly between San Diego in the south, Oxnard in the northwest, and Palm Springs in the east. The Air...
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For years and years now -- nine years, to be precise, since this 1999 article in the NY Times magazine and my subsequent Atlantic article and book Free Flight -- I've been arguing that the mounting hassles of airline travel, and the emergence of radically cheaper, safe small planes, would make "air...