The year of my first trip to EAA’s Airventure at Oshkosh was special. Light sport aircraft had general aviation pilots excited, and a new category of very light jet (VLJ) designs had sprung into existence when aircraft design technology caught up to the creation of the Williams FJ44 fanjet engine.
These VLJ designs promised a new era of aircraft ownership. These aircraft had capabilities that would enable the creation of air taxi companies that would have resembled an aviation version of Uber years before the idea caught on for car travel.
