Seeking to increase his customer base among Bizjet owners throughout the world, Aero-Entrepreneur Vern Raburn has introduced his latest new design... an aircraft that maximizes the return on investment his company has made, so far, in developing the twin engine Eclipse 500 microjet. Raburn (who is rumored to have been a great fan of such WWII aircraft as the F-82) noted that, "We envisioned the Eclipse 1000 as a dual role aircraft (hence, our new dual logo...) -- the first as an excellent, if unique, trainer for pilots looking to become Bizjet owner/flyers for the first time (and to give them an authentic single pilot feel throughout the training process), and the other for whom the Eclipse 500 was only about half of what they needed."

Environmentalists across the world mourned "Suzy," an endangered Piping Plover, as the entire US Air Force was grounded indefinitely for what Chief of Staff Jack Ripper called "An unprecedented Environmental Impact Standdown." =A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the move while considering a lawsuit by an environmental group. The lawsuit charges that the Air Force should not be allowed to fly until it proves it can do so without harming wildlife, including birds and bugs. "We expect the suit to prevail," Judge Berkely J. Bong wrote in the landmark opinion. "After all, birds are people too."