Thanks fellers. Just curious. Launched a few years ago over here to much song and dance and I saw a semitechnical documentary that sounded very impressive. Saw one at an airshow recently doing the most extraordinary aerobatics for a helo. Met a pilot (Huey gunship) in a pub last year who swore that it was the meanest thing he'd ever flown.
Seems sad that it is likely to die. Perhaps the decision to market it as an integral weapons system rather than just as a platform was an error.
Nearest I've ever been (sob) is a couple of flips in a Bell and Bob Mason's "Chickenhawk".