Honda unveils new HondaJet with longer flight range, autolanding

That's nice feature but how profitable those jet?

https://www.flightglobal.com/business-aviation/honda-motors-reports-380-million-annual-loss-on-hondajet-and-engine-units/128605.article

Looks absolutely smashing! And its aerial performance excelling excellent Honda cars on land !!

This is the more ugliest jet I have ever seen in my entire life. Utterly terrible design.

That money could have been spent on the development of EVs.

Shouldn’t Honda stick to car manufacturing?

Never get FAA approval

@Meiyouwnti

Shouldn’t Honda stick to car manufacturing?

The understanding 20 years ago was that any knowledge gained from HondaJet program would flow back to Honda's automotive engineering.

Not really worth writing about, especially trying to make out it has some great autolanding feature. All passenger planes can do it. Nothing to read here.

Shouldn’t Honda stick to car manufacturing?

Honda, to me, is a motorcycle company. The cars came decades after the first motorcycles.

Not at all pleasant on the eye.

Never get FAA approval

Sigh. It is already FAA approved.

This is the more ugliest jet I have ever seen in my entire life. 

Nah. Look at a Fairey Gannet AEW-3, Handley-Page Victor or PZL M-15 Belphegor. The latter is a jet powered agricultural biplane intended to spray crops on really large Soviet farms. It is beyond ugly. Some Rutan designs are pretty weird looking too.

@Zoroto

Is the HondaJet still a thing? Who buys these things over a Bombadier or a Citation?

HondaJet is actually the best selling light jet right now, very competitive.

Having said that, HondaJet is a 99.99% American company staffed entirely by Americans, with its CEO being the only Japanese person of the company.

Having said that, HondaJet is a 99.99% American company staffed entirely by Americans, with its CEO being the only Japanese person of the company.

Hondajet is subsidiary of Honda. It is a Japanese company.

Wow! private jets. Just what the world needs more of.

Need more of this. Japan definitely needs to reenter the aircraft industry!

Yes, but can it be lowered and have a massive spoiler on the back?

My wallet's in the car.

I love these little jets.

HondaJet is a Japanese company in the sense that Colombia Pictures is a Japanese company and a subsidiary of Sony. For all intents and purposes it’s American run (I sincerely doubt all of its engineers are American) but still Japanese.

@Gaijinjland

I sincerely doubt all of its engineers are American

They are.

https://nccarolinacore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Honda-Aircraft-Company.jpg

https://mms.businesswire.com/media/20131017006559/en/387915/5/Honda_Aircraft_ribbon-cutting10-17-13%231.jpg

The only Japanese in the photo is the CEO.

Japanese engineering for the win!!

YrralToday  07:51 am JST

Never get FAA approval

Already approved. As accurate a prediction as normal.

Is the HondaJet still a thing? Who buys these things over a Bombadier or a Citation?

Anyone interested in a low-cost of acquisition, a low-operational cost with high efficency and single-pilot operating capability. So..... lots of people (relatively speaking) Honda Business Jet is the biggest seller in it's category. deliveries do not equal sales.

Not that hard a concept really.

Now we have Honda Planes. And Honda Cars. And Honda Motor Bikes.

So when will we have Honda Bicycles? I am waiting. Because Honda Motor Bikes, Honda Cars and, Honda Planes are so good looking and so comfortable to travel in. Although I have not ridden a Honda Motor Bike or flown in a Honda Plane, they all look so good and say to me, "We are waiting for you to ride a Honda Motor Bike and fly in a Honda Plane! They are so good looking and so good to travel in."

@Samit Basu

Umm… those are pictures from a ribbon cutting ceremony. Can’t tell what nationality they all are unless you want me to do racial profiling. So HondaJet is the only American “based” manufacturer in the country that doesn’t employ a single non-American employee? I’m not talking about Japanese employees, I’m talking about employees who came from any country other than America. Because even American Google are headed by Indians… well, maybe they’ve naturalized by now but my point is the Japanese CEO is not the only non-American on that team.

The Best Emergency device that I have seen/observed as being fitted to a personal light aircraft, is a Parachute. Commercial airlines could consider the same through a modularized build and independently detachable unit pressurized fuselage. Imagine a Thunderbird 2 style of Commercial airline.

As to Honda's promotional blurb... yeah right, it's called ILS, and Auto-Pilots can theoretically already land Aircraft automatically using it... just that if that were made Public, then Human Pilots may suddenly be seen as being unnecessary - though not every airfield has ILS capability.

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/05/watch-a-plane-land-itself-truly-autonomously-for-the-first-time/