Eclipse Concept Jet, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007

ALL ALUMINUM???????? no, the fuselage and epennage for that ECJ are all composite!

looks like they paid a jet design company, just like the car makers pay a car design company and thats why it all looks the same. Nobody has imagination anymore.

Two hundred days to build and fly this jet and I'll bet they kept the costs within bounds. If the Navy tried to build this plane it would take five years and fifty billion dollars...not counting bribes to members of Congress and cost overruns.

looks like they could use a little more work on door closing efforts (@1:20)! :)

i hope this thing enters production. looks realy cool

I wonder how a tail like that would have worked on a large trijet like the MD-11 or L-1011

yes, but it's a pratt engine...that makes all the difference:)

"the jet"by cirrus looks like a bigger version of this same basic design

I was at this event. Vern said he had to pee so he dumped it out the cockpit window and it spilled on the wing. When he got to 35k feet the pee it turns out, was on the wing and froze. So they were going to have to re-do this flight for engineering analysis because the flight characteristics were altered.

if I were rich enough, I would own one TODAY!