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Old 16th Jun 2015, 00:37
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"They’ll be supplied to customers as kit-sets models for self-assembly in order to keep the price low, the developer said."

So it's a $120K kit aircraft. Type certification would more than double the proposed price and take a couple years to complete. Even though they claim a GTOW well under 1300lbs, neither the EASA or FAA LSA regs currently allow helicopters.

You can already get a comparable product from outfits like Rotorway for far less (<$80K), which benefit from having most of the design bugs worked out.
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