Originally Posted by
Foghorn Leghorn
The Americans may well have been blocking them. That’s not the discussion here. The discussion is that Top Aces have been economical with the truth. They don’t have the jets and they’ve never had the jets, yet their marketing is all about the jets; they’ve now lost credibility over this. If they just pulled all the marketing until the deal is through then announced it I don’t think anyone would have a problem.
That's just it, the reputational damage has already been done at both the corporate and governmental level. A wise marketing strategy would have been to wait until named as a prime contractor on a USAF program which would enable you to begin the acquisition process, then once the deal is agreed go public. As is, nobody will believe anything until the first jet is in the CONUS with a FAA N-Reg allocated. The business problem with the approach taken, beside the obvious, is everyone knows your solution to a market segment by signalling look at our bright-shiny 1978-1980 FMS year build aircraft. Furthermore, the potential caveats on TPT approval by DoS, DoD/DTSA may well state for CONUS use only which could cause further reputational damage.