There's a really good side to this if things work out alright. Civvie use! It's a little more expensive than both a Cessna and a Robinson combined, but we can try cheapening it.
Let's see...
Do we need landing gears? Three of them?! Redundant. Loose 2. Keep one non-retractable landing skid.
Next, the engines. The small Cessnas have only one engine. The Robinson has only one engine. Who needs two engines?! Who the hell put two engines on this thing?! Were they trying to make it more difficult for us to afford it?! What were they thinking?! Our version will have only one engine and the luxury version will have a prop with 3 blades because it's too difficult to make 2 symmetrical ones in photoshop.
Talk about redundancy. If we only have one engine now, we don't need two rudders. Out with one of them, and since our new center of gravity doesn't leave much airflow to it we can cut it in half aswell.
We can't afford Windows and we can't bother to learn how to use Linux so no computers for us.
The Refueling boom is irrelevant. There are no civvie tankers flying up there. It will be replaced by a machine-gun because that we can afford. The luxury model will have the A-10 cannon in its place.
Space. It's great to be able to carry marines all around. But we must cut the cost of the monster. There's too much metal on this thing. So let's leave only the minimum amount of space necessary. That leaves the cockpit and the hump behind it with enough space to hold the A-10 cannon on the luxury version.
Ladies and Gentleman, behold the
Pandion haliaetus luxury, also known as the civilian version of the Osprey, better and cheaper than Bell's own model, even after all the law suits:
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1...wospreydn5.jpg
Nope, we can't load that cannon with ammo. But this bird now looks alot meaner than your puny Cessnas. It will eat them for breakfast.