The next big thing in air travel to small communities ? and in North Carolina that means any airport in this state whose code isn?t CLT, RDU, GSO, or maybe AVL, ILM, FAY ? is supposedly very light jets, cheap six-person business jets.

Well, maybe not. The planes haven?t proven to be as inexpensive as hoped. And the leading firm building them, Eclipse Aviation Corp., filed for Chapter 11 yesterday.