Having heard and seen both performances by both CEOs I believe that Orsi was telling the tale and Garrison was wrong footed.
I guess that Textron want lots of money out of the programme but the Italians are [lets go for the American term] playing Hard Ball.
It looks as if Bell are being starved of funds..... the still slightly portly 429 looked to be pretty much sidelined in the
PR focus and everything was slung at the 407..... the BIG Bell launch was a Garmin glass cockpit..... any other company [except perhaps Brantly or Dinky] would have seen that as a Garmin upgrade and left it to Garmin.
They never even mentioned specifics on 429 or 412 Magellan at the press conference.
Oh but they mentioned something about some magazine voting them best deliverer of spares for the 50th year in succession.... it was 50 wasn't it?