{"id":2304,"date":"2006-04-24T10:21:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T10:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2006-04-24T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T10:21:29","slug":"microjets_eclip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"Microjets: Eclipse 500 Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/avnow\/news\/channel_busav_story.jsp?id=news\/aw042406p01.xml\">Joseph Anselmo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>an a former copy machine repairman who happens to be friends with Bill Gates reinvigorate the general aviation industry by adopting the low-cost, mass production model used for personal computers? The world is about to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago, it appeared the answer was a resounding &#8220;no.&#8221; Eclipse Aviation founder Vern Raburn gathered his team on a dismal Saturday morning in November 2002 to figure out whether the company had a future. Raburn, a pioneer in the personal computer revolution, was aiming to develop a six-seat jet that would sell for less than $1 million, bringing jet ownership within reach of thousands of new customers. But his penchant for risk had put Eclipse in big trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The Albuquerque company, with funding support from NASA, had bet big on the development of an advanced, radically cheaper turbine engine. The technology wasn&#8217;t panning out in time, however, and there was no Plan B. Investors, lured by Raburn&#8217;s earlier successes at Microsoft, Lotus and Symantec, were running out of patience. Eclipse had two options: stick with the balky engine and pray for a miracle, or delay launch of the aircraft by several years and try to hang on while it found a new engine.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Anselmo: an a former copy machine repairman who happens to be friends with Bill Gates reinvigorate the general aviation industry by adopting the low-cost, mass production model used for personal computers? The world is about to find out. Not long ago, it appeared the answer was a resounding &#8220;no.&#8221; Eclipse Aviation founder Vern Raburn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,32,40,9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}