Originally Posted by
rotorspeed
..The existing manufacturers have vastly more competency and have been infinitely better funded than Hill, and haven’t got near that performance in 50 years. Sorry, but it’s just laughable. And if the industry giants of Leonardo, Airbus, Bell and Robinson don’t think it viable to make their own engines, how on earth can Hill consider it?
I see where you went wrong, the existing manufacturers got this right decades ago and have been sitting on it so they can keep raking in HUGE profits.
It only really costs a fiver to make a typical aircraft.