| TURBINE PILOT | Crossing the threshold The 550 moves Eclipse from curiosity to contender BY THOMAS B. HAINES THE U.S. ARMY MARKETING SLOGAN "Be all you can be" kept rolling around in my head as I learned more about the Eclipse 550. The flight from Charleston, South Carolina, would be my first in the new model, an upgrade from the Eclipse 500, which itself had several versions of varying capabilities during its short production run. PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY E C L I P S E A E R O S PAC E , I N C . T-10 | AOPA PILOT August 2014