Re: Succesor to the Navajo, Chieftain, Metro
A metro with turbines.....it already has turbines doesn't it? I logged it as such!! The only good thing about a Metro is that is was relatively cheap to operate for 19 seats. Terrible to passengerin and bloody awful to fly. Mind you I never flew the 23 which had the -12 donks. I believe they were FAR 25 certified. The rest were just plain frightening. I wonder how long it is going to take either the GA manufacturing sector of the Airline manufacturer's to adopt technology from the brains trust of Burt Rutan whom in my most humble opinion has been the only true modern pioneer of advance aerodynamic concepts. Except for the advent and development of the jet engine very little has changed with aircraft design in fifty years. We just keep tweaking the old concepts.