Sept. 24, 2007

Follow a DayJet

If you click on this link, you’ll find yourself sitting smack dab in front of a FlightAware screen all tuned up to Day Jet’s online identity. This gives you the tools to follow all DayJet trips in near real time.

Personally, I hope these guys just knock the socks off the critics of this new segment, as well as those who can’t seem to beat up enough the Eclipse 500s DayJet is using. 

Sure DayJet is an unknown startup using an untested software system coupled to an unproven aircraft like the Eclipse, but boy if this works it is going to be one humdinger of an airline.

And then there are the Pogos and the Linear Airs and the North American Jets all using, or planning to use, the Eclipse.

Are they all crazy? Maybe.

As Boeing learned recently when they announced the tardy arrival of the 787 to the test track, or the two-year late arrival of the A-380 or the struggling Sino Swearingen SJ-30, building airplanes is not easy.

But this is how an industry pushes the envelope.

Go get em guys!

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