ORIGINAL: ghost_rider
FWIW, BV is not the only Jet manufacturer moving towards prop. I know of another jet manufacturer that I respect very dearly that has been working on A BIG……I MEAN BIG prop project.
If it makes good business sense, why not do it. There is nothing wrong with expanding your business.
Knowing the way the old man operates, check back within the next year at major prop airplane events and he will dominating the scene.
Don't think anybody has any real issue with him taking on props...just in simply importing and re-branding prop planes that someone else designed and are already available elsewhere.
If this was an actual BVM design, an exclusive, I think it would be more warmly recieved all around.