Whilst Diesels now seem to be the fashionable thing for GA FW's to think about, I do feel that a thumper in the back of any R22 or R44 would be very counter productive, in my humble opinion the only way forward for the light helicopters is to go turbine, Now the R44 with a turbine and a three or four blade head, and individual cyclic's would be somthing that would be worthy of sitting in everyone's front garden, it might even allow the rear end of the R44 to be finished off properly, rather than look like it has has some collision with a low brick wall! After all we are told that the Jetranger is being stopped, so uncle Frank could step in and take the lead in small privatly owned Helis for the future.
