Headturner,
Unfortunately the corporate world is fixated on image. The designers of the R88 have attempted to address this concern by introducing the sleek lines you see on the R88. Naturally it will take time for the flying public to embrace such radical thinking but in the end the R88, much like the rest of the Robinson range, will be judged by it's functionality, not it's looks!
And of course the skids haven't fallen off, the undercarriage is retracted.
Preliminary testing has shown the VNE to be beyond initial expectations. We anticipate the published VNE to meet projected guesstimates, somewhere around 185kts.
CH
