Quoted extract from Eurobolkow....
I must pick you up on one point however as to suggest that the 'S' airframe is the same as the 'A' model is simply not correct. Sure they have the same basic shape and profile (perhaps because it was such an aerdynamically efficient design in the first place) but the airframe of the latest generation will bear little resemblance to the original.
Are you stating :-
That the 109S is a completely new airframe built to JAR27/29 standards?
That the 109S has in the cabin JAR27/29 standard stroking crashworthy seats?
I think the words the Agusta paperwork uses is 'crash resistent' and that rear seat is the same old fuel tank that has no stroking capability beyond that endowed by the cushion filling.
The Grand will win on its undoubted merit not on misinterpretation of the airframe features of that mock-up.