Reinventing the wheel?

It turns out that the Quest is not such an innovation after all -- a mockup of the RUMAS A245 Guppy made its debut in Russia at MAKS 2009. Perhaps all that novel is that Mr Udovenko has managed to win some Arab backing.

Will there be a market for it? Most customers are (rightly) extremely reluctant to invest in unproven technology and Quest will have to make some sporty deals to get it off the ground, so to speak.