mrfriskel,
No doubt all of your statements are correct but as you know for all the right reasons the thing doesn't sell because it can't. They have cornered all the right reasons to not sell the aircraft.
So who is going to keep up the license fees to EC for the Notar Fan design?
The thing is the Edsel of Aviation. As a car the Edsel wasn't bad either.
Edsel and its failures
Historians have advanced several theories in an effort to explain the Edsel's failure. Popular culture often faults the car’s styling. Consumer Reports has alleged that poor workmanship was the Edsel's chief problem. Marketing experts hold the Edsel up as a supreme example of the corporate culture’s failure to understand American consumers. Business analysts cite the weak internal support for the product inside Ford’s executive offices. According to author and Edsel scholar Jan Deutsch, the Edsel was "the wrong car at the wrong time."
"The aim was right, but the target moved"
Substitute as appropriate.