Due to the engine shortfalls, the Eclipse prototype has essentially been grounded since last August. But evidently, Eclipse has been busily searching for a replacement engine and CEO Raburn said yesterday that "two Fortune 100 companies are bidding" on the engine job. He declined to name the contenders but hinted that the engines will be variants of established designs, not clean-sheet powerplants, as is the EJ22. (A quick perusal of the Fortune 100 yields a clue: General Electric is in the top 10 and Pratt & Whitney parent United Technologies also qualifies. Honda might be a potential dark horse, having recently announced its own mini-jet program.)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/uncategorized/power-vacuum