I haven't figured out what is wrong with keeping a base model, as a base model. Yes it's cheap, so that means two blades, it has a flat floor, good I guess, if its got similar internals to the JR and is 120kt cruise and cheaper then that has to be good.
No it won't compete with a 350 but there is the 407 for that, and no not everyone thinks that club seating is bad, have you ever been in a stretched limo?
As for EC lovers saying Bell can't innovate, when was the last new innovative design from EC? Following the most common product lines they go back 50 or so years with minor tinkering along the way...
Gazelle... 350... 350...350... God how many times can they reinvent the 350? 350B3... 350+ no better call it a EC130B4. 350- no EC120
105...117A1,a2....B2...145. T2,P2?
Want a smaller twin 355, wow what was that a 350? Lets trick all those people and call it a 135, they will never figure it out.
So even EC have figured out that you simply make slow incremental changes to a successful design, now if only the could sort out parts supply....
