The makers do claim to have 40 orders, with deliveries to start in about a year. So far as I've heard, if they actually deliver more than one or two it will be the first commercially successful machine of the kind.

The price isn't really much more than for many conventional single-engine planes, although the conventional ones usually have all the IFR and RNAV equipment that's left out to keep this in the sport license class.

Skarpi may be able to set up a refueling stop for the Atlantic hop, and he's said his economy needs a boot. I'd guess it would take a lot of travelling musicians to make much economic impact though.

But the class this thing is meant for may have more trouble getting across the Rockies inside the US. All airspace above 10K ft is "controlled airspace" - filed-in-advance flight plans, FAA contact and control required - so it would appear to be illegal for "sport/utility" planes like this to fly that high; and some of the mountains on any convenient routes are a bit higher than that.

Has anybody ordered the brochure?

John