I keep reading this '500 per year' rubbish. Anyone who believes this will ever happen is naive in the extreme. Given that customers must complete a 2 week build, that's 20 completion bays, running all year. All supplied with parts on a continuous basis, so there are no shortages? Ever?
And err....do you really think that the order bank will continue to grow at a continuous rate? That those very same completion bays will be required after say 5 years of production?
Let's be honest: Hill is funding his development by continually seeking more deposits. And promising undeliverable timescales on an ongoing basis. If he was honest, the deposits would dry up and the development put under threat.
To remind you, first flight was supposed to be in 2022 and first deliveries in 2023. Now first flight is 2024 (but it won't be, imho). So the important milestones have been missed by a factor of 2 and I don't believe in the new ones. And before the howls of protestation about Covid having changed the landscape and blah blah, the original announcement was in August 2020...you can find it right at the start of this thread.
Last edited by 206 jock; 26th Sep 2023 at 19:03.