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  Cirrus Jet First Flight! Its a big day for Cirrus.  The Cirrus Jet took its first flight just a few hours ago.  I will update the post with pictures when they start rolling in.   Update:  Sounds like the flight went to 10K feet and lasted 48 minutes. ... 07-03-2008, 11:53 AM by JoeN to Very Light Jet Talk

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  Eclipse Certification Under Investigation! This should be interesting.  Conspiracy theorists arise.  The certification of the Eclipse 500 has gone from murmurings heard round the net to a federal investigation.   Poor Vern seems to  be having a little setback in the PR... 07-01-2008, 8:34 PM by JoeN to Very Light Jet Talk

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  Eclipse Pilot MDW Story This is in interesting article detailing the experience of the 22,000 hour captain piloting the Eclipse with stuck throttles.  It sounds like it was well handled given the co pilot was log building and not type rated in the plane.  Basically... 06-30-2008, 8:56 AM by JoeN to Very Light Jet Talk

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  More Cirrus Jet Video   see Cirrusvillage.com for more details... 06-29-2008, 10:39 PM by JoeN to Very Light Jet Talk

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  Cirrus Jet Prototype V1 It looks like the Cirrus Jet Prototype "V1" is complete.  Static run up testing has been conducted.  Taken from the-jet.com and cirrusvillage.com here are progress pictures and a gootube video link.   Okay, so this thing... 06-27-2008, 12:26 PM by JoeN to Very Light Jet Talk