The R66 will
- most probably be a turbine ship. They wanted to do a deisel but there's too much weight penalty.
- be a 5-seater
- be called the R66, because Frank wants it to be called the R66
- look substantially like an R44, and probably fly like one too
- have a t-bar cyclic
- sell by the boatload, and give Bell and EC fits on their low end markets, and make the Enstrom/Schweizer turbine models redundant
- be denigrated by some pilots for the rest of time, just as the R22/R44 are
"Mark my words".
Dave Blevins
P.S. I'm wondering if that twin rotor shown earlier in this thread could be a alternative to the V-22
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