Alan Klapmeier on the First Flight of Cirrus Design's "The-Jet"

Alan Klapmeier on the First Flight of Cirrus Design’s “The-Jet”

Editorial Staff

Thursday, July 03, 2008 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The verification test aircraft for Cirrus's "The-Jet" successfully completed its first flight.
This milestone represents the realization of a decades-long vision for brothers Alan and Dale Klapmeier, who first conceived of building airplanes in the 1980s.
The flight is just the beginning of the journey toward certification and eventual production of the five-plus-two-passenger personal jet.

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In many ways, today was the day Alan and Dale Klapmeier have been waiting for since the 1980s when they first started thinking about building airplanes. But as Alan Klapmeier told AVweb‘s Russ Niles, Thursday’s first flight of the verification test aircraft of Cirrus’s The-Jet is actually more of a beginning as they head toward certification and production of the five-plus-two-passenger personal jet.

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