The substandard Bell product  

Walk around a Bell 429 then walk around an H145. It’s incredible how inferior the Bell product has become. A double stacked tail rotor that has grounding straps all over it, looks like it’s from 1965. They look like they just stole odd parts and pieces from old machines and slapped them on and called it their new helicopter. No serious thought in engineering or design.

Then look at an Airbus product. Slick and clean, a fenestron, superior rotorhead and mechanics, superior avionics package, superior ride.

You get what you pay for that’s for damn sure.