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By Murdo Morrison2021-02-26T18:00:00+00:00 The business began with a vow to disrupt a staid general aviation market by mass producing an entry-level jet for little more than the price of a piston aircraft. Now, after more than 20 years of ambitious promises, missed targets, and run-ins with the bankruptcy courts, very-light jet (VLJ) pioneer Eclipse is again under new management, and operators of the Albuquerque-based manufacturer’s 280 or so in-service examples hope the turbulence is over....

Share Credit: Joby Aviation Stop me if you have heard this before: A whole new class of aircraft will democratize and revolutionize seemingly everything, starting with air travel. Will it be advanced air mobility or maybe very light jets? Aviation consultant Brian Foley recalls the latter while thinking of the former, since both are in the news recently. Disruptive paradigms are not a new threat to aviation, even this century, he notes. The Eclipse very light jet (VLJ) was intended to make airb...