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Old August 5th 08, 06:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
noel.wade
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On Aug 5, 2:28*am, bagmaker
wrote:

The difference may well be that the Adam and the Seawind are produced
by people in the land of litigation, USA.


While I don't disagree with your statement, litigation has NOTHING to
do with the failure of those companies. Design problems do. Both
companies produced exellent concepts and prototype vehicles. But they
severely underestimated the design and manufacturing requirements of a
production vehicle. This led to serious delays and cost overruns as
they had to re-design the aircraft multiple times, and tweak their
production processes to get something that could actually be
manufactured in a reasonable manner.

Take care,

--Noel