Airline Pilot Central Forums - Is this the future of GA?

I'm all for good ideas coming to fruition and for experimentation, innovation etc. but I do not see a single new idea in this design. Burt Rutan has pretty adequately explored most of the areas available in GA canard pusher composite airplanes and several contemporary manufacturers have composite designs fully approved for production. Designing airplanes is the easy part. There is a lot of knowledge, data and experience on tap. The difficulty is in the mind boggling details involved in making a viable production model and this occurs long after experimentation is mostly completed. When a new design is mostly finalized, it may be several years before it can actually go into production. For complex designs the rule of thumb is 7 years for an established traditional engineering firm like Cessna, Lockheed, Boeing, etc. to get things up and running. It's maybe a three month endeavor to produce a viable design for almost any aircraft imaginable, so there is a huge difference in the length of these phases. Hate to say it, but tossing off viable aircraft designs is cheap. College students do it all the time.