I wonder if the 5 rotor blades will require 5 TT straps that expires every 2 years? Does anyone know?
What I heard was that this was precisely their intention. Indeed the proposed straps (so I understand) made an important contribution to the programmes fiscal viability in hastening the closure of their cost recovery period.
Apparently though, it was Bell's marketing team who eventually suggested that the
PR associated with five lots of biannual strap replacements might work against their campaign to bring this bird to market and so it was decided that their 'excessive-profits-from-purposely-poorly-designed-parts-related-revenue-generation' strategy would be handled more surreptitiously!
