It is the new jet from Cirrus Design, unveiled yesterday at Cirrus headquarters in Duluth, Minn.

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That's the dilemma faced each day by Cirrus Design, the fastest-growing single-engine aircraft maker in the world.

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At the really tiny end of the market, watch Cirrus Design.

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Another great American mittelstand is Cirrus Design of Duluth, Minn.

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Fallows tracks the first company, Cirrus Design, of Duluth, Minn.

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Its anchor companies span the range from agriculture and food products (Cargill, General Mills) to medium tech (3M) to aviation (Cirrus Design) to health care (Medtronic) to retail (Best Buy, Target) to a cluster of tech startups in the southwestern suburbs of Minneapolis.

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Personally, I have my eye on an even smaller jet, the rumored single-engine, four-seat pocket-rocket from Cirrus Design. (If the one engine fails, pull a lever and a parachute will float you and the plane to a soft landing.) One of the two brothers who founded Cirrus told me the Cirrus jet would go 300 knots, or 345 miles per hour.

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