Originally published at: What Happened? Why Piper's 2010's Business Jet Hopes Failed
A brief history of Piper’s ambitious bid to build a single-engine jet.
The jet demand is buoyant … the problem was a weal design. Taking a single engine piston and slapping a Williams turbine on the tail along with an obviously weak landing gear design is not the way to woo customers. Nonetheless, there is a market and Piper could have done it — and still can
That engine looked a little hard to access(yes, I know about DC-10s and 1011s).
Business case never took off? Cirrus has delivered 700+ Vision Jets since 2016. Seems like the business case is pretty solid
You just can’t fix ugly.
Didn’t Piper also screw up about the same time by agreeing to tweak and market the historically Chip–Erwin-mismanaged/bankrupted CZAW’s flawed SPORT CRUISER? They realized within a year that Czech business and overall ethical standards were incompatible with pre-Trump American minimums and filed for divorce.
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