D3,
Certainly not! I'm always pleased to see new ideas and designs in the market place and so try to be as positive as possible, even when I don't agree with the approach adopted. You'll note that I immediately commented that the power-to-weight ratio is (IMHO) very low and that they are having to work the un-proven engine extremely hard just to achieve this low power-to-weight ratio.
Simply stated the machine will be underpowered and I personally would expect reliability problems with the over worked engine. In practise I think that the machine will have pretty poor performance; worse than that claimed and also when compared to the R44, simply because its too heavy.
I hope this clarifies things.
CRAN
