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Eighty-year-Philibert (Filbert) Barrera, a resident of Benson since 1939, was awarded the honor of Grand Marshal of the Benson Juniors, organization planning and presentation of the parade on Oct. 8. A member of the beloved community institution, and Benson, Filbert is probably best known for his 31 years as a former employee Benson School District where he worked as a bus driver, the practical man, has contributed to projects maintenance and attending sporting events. To date, Filbert continues to attend the Benson High School sports events where his grandchildren compete in various athletic programs.Raised in Laredo, Texas, Filbert Benson moved into the area in 1939 when he was 18 years working in the camps of President Franklin D. Roosevelt CCC project. At a time when the country was faced with widespread unemployment and bankruptcy in 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps - part of Roosevelt's New Deal - was adopted to put thousands of young unemployed men back to work. CCC camp that was assigned to Filbert St. David was on a property formerly known as Golden Bell, where Voyager RV Park is now. The couple had six children: Filbert, Mike, Nellie, Dan, Jimmy and Rudy Barrera. Dan and Rudy still live in Benson.In 1948 Filbert and Frances bought a small house at the time, was considered outside the city limits. They raised their children in the house where Filbert still lives. "When I bought this house, I paid $ 600 for it and there was nothing here," Filbert said. As the city continued to grow and other houses were built over the years, Barrera is now home in a quiet Benson, is no longer considered outside the city limits. Filbert bus line has varied over the years, but he remembers driving in Cascabel, Happy Valley , Dragoon and J-Six, with several routes downtown."For many years my father was the Official Timekeeper of the football matches Benson," said Dan Barrera, who recalls seeing his father perched in a crow's nest atop a light pole stage where could see the whole game from that point of view. As a veteran World War II, Filbert was a member of the VFW and American Legion since 1945. He attended Our Lady of the Catholic Church long Lords his years in Benson. Despite his advanced age, Filbert continues to be an active, safe driver.

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The Eclipse 500 is the poster craft of the air-taxi/very-light-jet world. The plane, originally expected at 7,500 in 2004, now sells for about .5 million, and should be certified by the FAA this June. That’s pretty good in the world of large projects. And in the meantime, the appeal of a low-cost aircraft – both to buy and to operate – has only gone up.

Eclipse currently has pre-paid orders for almost 2500 of the jets, and plans to build 82 of them by year-end. Next year, in 2007, it expects to build 600. After that, says founder and CEO Vern Raburn, it has current capacity to go to 1000 a year, with a vendor base that could also support that volume. Eclipse is volume-driven, from its carefully designed aluminum body to a -million painting system that allows it to paint a plane in two days instead of a week.

Raburn began his career in IT, working with Bill Gates at Microsoft and Mitch Kapor at Lotus and eventually becoming CEO of Symantec in the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He also worked for Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen at Vulcan Ventures for much of the ‘90s. In 1998, he founded Eclipse to go back to his first love, aviation . (His father Lou is a former engineer at Douglas.)

The Eclipse was the first aircraft in the very light jet category and arguably, is the most revolutionary version of the very light jet, with a range of 1200 nautical miles and extremely low operating costs. Currently, says Raburn, about 70 percent of his production is for individual owners (the ones who ordered the plane back when it was still a dream in 2001). Within a year or two, assuming the air taxi market takes off, he expects it to swing the other way, with 60 percent or more of deliveries going to air taxi operators. He has been a vocal proponent of the market and has actively worked to get local support both from the New Mexico state government (which created an unparalleled package of incentives, building leases and repealed the sales tax for aircraft to lure Eclipse from Arizona in 2000), to the Florida state government, which is funding a 60,000-square-foot maintenance and operations facility for the company at the Gainesville airport. Eclipse will pay rent, to be sure, but the -million cost of the building was put up by Florida, says airport manager Rick Crider.

How cheap could these planes become? Raburn says the physics of building something will keep the price up: “Realistically you could build something like this for 0-800K, but it would require firm orders and to billion of investment across our supplier base. We don’t fully obey Moore’s Law. We benefit from technology in manufacturing and avionics, but not in the rest.” Specifically, he points out, engines, the single biggest cost of a plane, aren’t going down in price. And “the [regulatory] paperwork cost won’t scale down the way the other things do.

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