According to
this article the new Adam Aircraft owner, AAI Acquisition, may drop the A500 in favor of A700 development only. Its about time was my first thought. The A500 saga reminds me a bit of Eclipse with respect to certification and production delays. The difference of course with Eclipse has been its ability to obtain inordinate amounts of VC capital. In fact, if nothing else, Vern Raburn should be congratulated for his amazing ability to find funding for a company that has consistently underperformed. Anyway, if the new owners of Adam Aircraft focus on bringing the A700 to the market, it would be one of the first good decisions by the new company. I continue to be shocked by aircraft startups that try to certify multiple new models at a time. A single aircraft certification demands incredible resources and seems to be consistently underestimated much less trying multiple models simultaneously-ludicrous. Why not focus on a single good product and get it on the market and revenue in the door before choosing to hemorrhage hundreds of millions more. Unfortunately, the Adam A500 was never a good product and other than a unique design offered very little in terms of payload, range, and speed over existing products in the market relative to price. It should have been jettisoned long ago particularly since insolvency makes everything so transparent.
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