It sounds to me like someone is promising the 2 engines is better than one bit when it's not necessarily so.
The glide characteristics of the Caravan are remarkable, risk mitigation: don't transport people at night etc.
The 208 was designed around 1980? Hardly 'new' design technology
I guess that is in comparison with late 1950s designed C206, early 1960s designed PA31, both with 1940s designed engines and the late 1960s C90 with mid 1960s designed PT6s?
