"The wonder isn't that the airplane took so long to get built but that it got built at all." Robert Goyer Editor-in-Chief, Flying Magazine Vern Raburn - high tech entrepreneur - was a man with a dream and strong opinions. The dream: build a low cost, high speed twin-engine jet aircraft; to completely change personal air travel and Eclipse the competition. The strong opinions: when comparing the standards of thinking in aviation to those of Silicon Valley, Raburn said of aviation, "People think we can't do it because they can't. It's the 'if it doesn't exist, it can't exist' theorem." He said of Silicon Valley, "If it doesn't exist, it's a market opportunity." Eclipse Aviation, Raburn's start-up company, created the airplane, won the prestigious Collier Trophy and went bankrupt. Then, against all odds, it was saved. "The Great Eclipse" tells the story of how crippling culture clashes, supply chain sloppiness, mega-marketing and major mismanagement made...