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Viper Aircraft (Pasco)

Runner-up: Manufacturing Innovation of the Year (Small Companies)
|   June 2010   |  FROM THE PRINT EDITION

Lots of people in the general aviation business have developed small personal aircraft. Very few of those airplane-in-a-garage projects are made of composite materials appropriate for a two-seat jet that can be used for business travel or for performing aerial acrobatics. The ViperJet LXR, announced last year, boasts a 1,000-mile range at more than 400 knots, a vertical climb of 5,000 feet per minute and additional room for golf clubs.

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