World's Best-Selling Light Business Plane HondaJet Outclasses Rivals With Radical Design

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By far the most innovative feature of this new aircraft was its radical over-the- wings engine mount design which delivers unprecedented mileage, low drag and minimizes noise and vibration.

HondaJet is a leader in its class, able to cruise higher and faster than any rival.Honda seems reinvigorated after its second win in the F1 Grand Prix championships while on two wheels, Repsol Honda rider Marc Marquez claimed his fourth consecutive pole position at the British Grand Prix yesterday.

But HondaJet’s road has not been an easy one. While the Honda Aircraft Company, based in North Carolina, may have started production of HondaJet in 2015, it has taken well over 30 years in research and development to get to this stage.Way back in 1986, Michimasa Fujino, aeronautical engineering graduate from Japan’s top college Tokyo University was given that unenviable job of heading up Honda’s fledgling new aircraft development arm.

While Fujino recalls that the industry showed considerable skepticism towards his unique design early on, his belief in the over-wing engine setup won the day when it was shown to provide better fuel consumption, less drag, less noise and less vibration being transferred to the cabin than other rival Cessnas and light business jets. It was the quietest aircraft of its type in the industry.

 

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