Flyingmonk wrote:

Remember the words of PT Barnum?

Well there is that angle as well.

However..... Perhaps the interest, down payments, etc., show that there
is a viable market pool of people with enough money to enter the
helicopter market at the low end dollar level.

Two hundred thousand for a clapped out whatever may be way out of their
financial ballpark but fifty grand for a kit of brand new parts is
something else.

It appears that in that particular market level that there are people
with both the money and the dream.