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Old 17th Nov 2007, 19:59
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KeyPilot
 
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I was beginning to wonder how many posts would be posted on this thread before someone highlighted the disarray that Eclipse are currently in.

Lost their chief engineer, delivered only tens of aircraft not the many hundreds it should be by now, suppliers fleeing the program, shed 10% of staff, the first supplier suing for non-payment (you can bet they won't be the last), by their own admission they almost went bust in the summer, ...

There is a very good site devoted to exposing the reality of Eclipse, although I can see someone else posted a link and PPRuNe has scrambled it (come on chaps!). A Google search will quickly reveal it, however.

The question has to be: how much longer will they survive? I predict Eclipse going TU within months, if not weeks...
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