BN's joke wears a bit thin for engineers. It's about time the company dusted the cobwebs off and dragged itself out of fifties technology. Exposed flying control rod bearings that need to be greased up on every check... Mickey Mouse cockpit entrance door 'Open' catch that chews up the weather seal... a weak elevator trim tab design that's had a repetetive Service Bulletin (49) for the past thirty years... ridiculous and redundant flying control attachment and locking methods... crew seats with no height adjustment and a pathetic installation arrangement that almost lets them rock...pax lifejackets that fall out of their stowages if you even look at them... a scabbed-panel wing upper surface that probably knocks 5 knots off the cruising speed... extortionate price of spares... lukewarm customer service... haphazard maintenance manuals... nut/bolt assemblies with different spanner sizes... oh, I can't be bothered to go on.
It would be interesting to see what kind of aeroplane Cessna/Piper/Beech could make out of this.