HondaJet - This Honda REALLY needs wings!!

[Kirby]

Is that a VTEC sticker I see on the rudder?

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and Honda announced today that the experimental HondaJet will make its world debut on July 28, 2005, at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., the weeklong event that is the largest annual aviation gathering in the world.

HondaJet Compact Business Jet

The experimental HondaJet is an advanced, lightweight, compact business jet featuring better fuel efficiency, a larger cabin, and higher cruise speed than conventional aircraft in its class.

The HondaJet is powered by two Honda HF-118 engines optimally positioned on the upper surface of the wing in a unique configuration that reduces drag at high speed to improve fuel efficiency. This unique layout also eliminates the need for structural engine mounts on the fuselage, creating more space in the fuselage than in conventional aircraft. Other innovations include a natural-laminar flow (NLF) wing, which achieves low drag coefficient and high maximum lift coefficient, a fuselage nose that helps achieve a low drag coefficient, and an advanced light-weight all-composite fuselage.

“Aviation has long been a dream for Honda, and the HondaJet is the embodiment of that dream,” said Michimasa Fujino, HondaJet project leader and vice president of Honda R&D Americas, Inc. “We chose EAA AirVenture for the HondaJet’s world debut in the pure spirit of our passion for aviation, and to share our new technology with the aviation community from a research and development standpoint.”

 

[bmw046series]

I wish BMW made aircraft engines again, damn WWII--UN has to stop everything.

 

[epj3]

Thats Hot!!!!

 

[jszar]

my roomate went up to oshkosh this weekend for the event and saw it. said it was pretty cool. i would have gone, but i'm broke and had to work.

is anyone else here a pilot of some sort...private/atp etc.....? working on my tailwheel endorsment this fall and starting instrument....i'm an areonautical major btw, if you couldnt guess already.

 

[poboyis]

Darn, I was gonna go to the air show too, its less than 2 hours away. that would have been cool to see. kinda cool to see an auto manufacturer in the aviation buisness, i wonder if the worked with anyone on it, or if they did it all by themselves.

 

[epj3]

Darn, I was gonna go to the air show too, its less than 2 hours away. that would have been cool to see. kinda cool to see an auto manufacturer in the aviation buisness, i wonder if the worked with anyone on it, or if they did it all by themselves.

I think it's cool too.... MAYBE, just MAYBE.. other manufacturers will follow which means more advancements in air travel. Maybe make it a little cheaper?

 

[gizzy]

my roomate went up to oshkosh this weekend for the event and saw it. said it was pretty cool. i would have gone, but i'm broke and had to work.

is anyone else here a pilot of some sort...private/atp etc.....? working on my tailwheel endorsment this fall and starting instrument....i'm an areonautical major btw, if you couldnt guess already.

Private here!!! - Too bad honda has no immediate plans for making the jet production right now - just playing around mostly, though they have never rulled out going production with it. I really wanted to go to Oshkosh this year and check out the Honda Jet, and Spaceship One but I was in New York for training.

Oh, well - maybe next year.

 

[jszar]

Private here!!! - Too bad honda has no immediate plans for making the jet production right now - just playing around mostly, though they have never rulled out going production with it. I really wanted to go to Oshkosh this year and check out the Honda Jet, and Spaceship One but I was in New York for training.

Oh, well - maybe next year.

awesome....how long have you been? any other ratings? go up often?

 

[theBMWenthusiast]

hehe, nice title, and lokos pretty cool in BMW colors

 

[gizzy]

awesome....how long have you been? any other ratings? go up often?

two years now - I go up once or twice a month for 3 hours - local stuff. No other ratings yet, but I would like to eventually get my CFI (CFII later) to help pay for my little weekend flying.

 

[squakin1200]

That honda Jet is awsome. It's very efficient compared to other jets around. It holds around 300 gallons of fuel and goes 1100 miles on that+ reserve. Thats great. I think Honda is going to test this for a while. Like everything else they do, it must be perfect before it enters the market.