Steak - Yeah, you are right...why would we want a plane that flies higher and faster because of a better design?
Must be junk right? So let's just all sit down in the low 20s getting slammed in the weather, because you know, that's just the kind of low speed, high drag aircraft, you and your crew can fly with out getting too far ahead of you.
This is a ridiculous thread. We should be talking about going Mach 2 instead of talking about flying the slowest turboprops made based on 1960s technology. Boggles.