Honda's flying "car"

[Taro Toporific]

Video of the Honda micro-jetplane was on NHK New at noon. SHWEEET!

Flight Tests of Honda Experimental Business Jet Begin
Japan Corporate News, Dec 17
Tokyo (JCNN) -Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (TSE: 7267) announced yesterday that the HondaJet, its new experimental compact business jet ...
---See the video here.----

[kurohinge1]

Video of the Honda micro-jetplane was on NHK New at noon. SHWEEET!
... Flight Tests of Honda Experimental Business Jet Begin
Japan Corporate News, Dec 17
Tokyo (JCNN) -Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (TSE: 7267) announced yesterday that the HondaJet, its new experimental compact business jet ...
---See the video here.----

Very sexy.

And if you're one of the first 10 customers, you'll probably get a free Honda Pilot-bot included ...

[Caustic Saint]

There! Now it looks like a Honda!

(edited to add new sticker )

[Robato]

yeah......with their rockets crashing every 2 seconds, you wont catch me in anything that flys and was made in Japan.

[Big Booger]

Where's the trademark Hood ornament?

[Caustic Saint]

Where's the trademark Hood ornament?

SHIT! I forgot the "Type-R" sticker. Lemme go fix that.

[Taro Toporific]

yeah......with their rockets crashing every 2 seconds, you wont catch me in anything that flys and was made in Japan.

Honda to Make Engines for Jets with GE[url=http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20040216_1.html]
Feb. 16 &#8212] - Honda Motor Co, Japan's second-biggest auto maker, said on Monday it had signed a deal with General Electric Co of the United States to make engines for light business jets.
Under the agreement, the two companies will develop Honda's new HF118 turbofan jet engine, which was mounted on an experimental small business jet called the HondaJet..... Toyota Motor Corp, Japan's biggest auto maker, also grabbed headlines in 2002 by making its first test run of a prototype aircraft, but the plane's engine came from a different manufacturer.

[subgenius]

The year 2000 has come and gone, where the hell is my HOVER BOARD!!!!

Thank you Michael J. Fox for building up a young boys dreams and crushing them with a future that isn't that different.

For real though, isn't it possible to make a flying skateboard type thing? It would be cooler than that damn Honda robot or a robot cat.

[Mulboyne]

[Greji]

I find it difficult to understand what happened to the technology in Japan that produced the Nakajima "Zero" that at the begining of WWII was one of the top air superiority fighters of its age.

With the exception of the YS 11, Japan has not produced anything new in aviation in over 50 years. The F1/2's should not even be mentioned, let alone considered.

Granted they have no military positure and the radical left has slowed down their military development. Most of their engine work is through IHI's work with GE on engines together with Mitsubishi's contract fighter production/maintenance for the US.

They should have a very viable market here for these companies to make aircraft and corporate jets should fit right in. I'm a bit surprised I don't see more shuttle helicopters than I do. Tsuru, there's your new market!:p

(as long as they don't try rockets)

[GuyJean]

GJ

[Takechanpoo]

Why is made in Japan so beautiful? Nobody can transcend it.

[Mike Oxlong]

Why is made in Japan so beautiful? Nobody can transcend it.

I tend to agree. Exceptional lines and angles...

[Tsuru]

Why is made in Japan so beautiful? Nobody can transcend it.

That's because it's made in the USA.

[Greji]

That's because it's made in the USA.

Your shot Take!

[Taro Toporific]

The year 2000 has come and gone, where the hell is my HOVER BOARD!!!

Can Honda Bring Corporate-Style Jet Travel to the Masses?
www.PopularMechanics.com -- March 4, 2010
Private jet travel is convenient, luxurious and, of course, very expensive. The HondaJet represents an effort at changing that, by using technology and design to bring costs down and allow private-jet travel at costs that approach commercial ticket prices....
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....What about the environment, though? Won't all these small jets zipping around be worse for emissions than a few big ones? The answer seems to be no. Based on fuel consumption, speed and range, the HondaJet seems to be just about exactly as efficient per seat-mile as the ubiquitous Canadair CRJ-200 regional jet. But that probably understates things, because if I were flying from Knoxville to, say, Washington, D.C., I'd be traveling a straight-line distance of 353 nautical miles, while if I took a commercial flight, I'd probably be going by way of Atlanta for a distance of 605 nautical miles. (I'd also have a travel time of about an hour on the HondaJet, rather than something like 4 hours traveling via Atlanta.) So while the precise environmental impact of replacing hub-and-spoke commercial travel with direct-flight travel on the HondaJet is open to dispute, it seems unlikely that there will be much impact...more...

[Tsuru]

There's a lot of different VLJ's knocking around these days, not sure why anyone would pay money for an unproven twin when they can buy a single-engined Piperjet, Cirrus Vision or Diamond D-jet from reputable manufacturers that do the same thing and are cheaper to operate. The last two are a lot better-looking as well.

It's a nice exercise in technology for Honda, but I don't really see this go anywhere at this point. If it was my money I would rather spend it on something Brazilian or even something that is Volvo-powered and a lot more exciting as well. Not a lot of room for your mountain bike, your skis or even your laptop in that last one, though.

[banjaminn]

I think this is the car of my dreams. I want to fly, so badly, and hope that the country is currently making plans to create airspace for this type of craft. Although, I'm wondering if a private pilots license will be required in order to own, or operate, this concept car. Anyone with firsthand knowledge about it, please let me know what the future holds for the car's production - and the prerequisites for ownership or operation.

[Kagetsu]

I'd prefer a Hondajet personally... significantly higher performance figures over the other three mentioned, and the addition of an imbuilt bathroom basically edges it into the light business jet category.

I'm buying one (eventually).