Well it has been a long wait for the folks at Eclipse since engines 1.0. Engines 2.0, care of Pratt and Whitney, are here and pushing the airplane around in the air, incident free. As soon as we have photos we'll put them up. Air charter academics are still fiddling with their excel sheets as to whether this aircraft will make a big long term impact.

But with Canadian partners for engines, how can you go wrong? Ok, bad question. (RSVPair is 50% Canadian, so we can make such jokes.)

But seriously, this is big news and Eclipse deserves credit for sticking it out this long. Naturally credit is due to the investors too, who had to weather the change / stress from Williams to Pratt transition.

One of the most interesting things (that we have alluded to before) is the possibility that Pratt's development of this new turbine may also have a purpose as the future replacement core for PT-6A's going forward. The amazing irony is that the Eclipse (et al) heralded in (in their words) a new era where turboprops go bye bye. However, air charter sages know that there is always an application for a turboprop and since Pratt feeds PT-6A's to the world at large, a new core is probably very much part of their agenda.