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Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

WOV — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:59:45 EDT

Let's also not forget Rolls engines are in a solid chunk of military iron worldwide...

WOV

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

hellodarling! — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:40:25 EDT

Nissan makes houses as well. I see dozens of those Armadas driving around.

hellodarling!

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

Mark Miller — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:10:51 EDT

When my mom bought her first Civic in '78, I didn't imagine I'd ever see a three million dollar Honda. Jeez.

Mark Miller

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

TPSreports — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:20:29 EDT

Honda doesn't make houses, I'm guessing.

But they will, some day. Toyota does now.

TPSreports

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

Larry Forney — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:11:48 EDT

ya smarrtass

Larry Forney

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

DAR — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:09:28 EDT

We have no choice in whether this goes ahead or not: The Pentablet will decide for us, and then make the millionaires among us buy it using a mind control chemical in the Colonel's chicken that makes us crave it fortnightly.

DAR

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

Larry Forney — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:03:30 EDT

also, peeps, bmw make old plane parts 2, maybe not hole plane but parts, also rols roise

Larry Forney

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

Larry Forney — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:02:31 EDT

It just needs a sticker of Calvin peeing on a Lear Jet logo.

Larry Forney

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

BlackIce_GTS — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:33:09 EDT

What's the engine code? Will it fit in a CRX?

BlackIce_GTS

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

HoubaHouba! — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:25:56 EDT

Not the same shithole, SAAB started out building airplanes & then got into cars (Svenska Aeroplan A.B. or something). That doesn't make the 'born from jets' bullshit sound any better, though.

HoubaHouba!

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

Adam — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:41:38 EDT

It doesn't look like sputnik at all, at least not sputnik 1. Sputnik 1 was a tiny metal sphere with 4 metal antennae...

I would imagine putting the engine there, while reducing aerodynamic drag, would put a ton of undue torsion onto the wing structure. With all the forces the wing takes already... does it really need more torsion?

Adam

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

TexansAreHot — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:09:09 EDT

I bet in the new future it's going to be flown by the ASIMO robot, and then the next thing you know it'll be The Matrix all over again.

TexansAreHot

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

superbad — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:43:25 EDT

The downfall of this thing is that it's $1.5 million more expensive than its competitors.

superbad

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

polyt79 — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:32:35 EDT

For all those pundits hollering "revolutionary engine placement": http://www.vfw614.de/

Hey, the Gripen rules... so what if it means I have to endure the onslaught of a Opel-93 and a Chevy-97x purportedly "born of jets"!
(http://www.saabmuseum.com/ursaab/index.html)

polyt79

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

DannyBoy — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:16:47 EDT

Just wait. Something tells me they're going to make a mint with this thing. The very light jet market is on fire right now (more millionaires exist than ever before), and the industry is making huge advances in technology (composite construction, glass cockpits, super high-efficiency engines). If Honda nails this, it will do well.

The Mitsubishi MU2 is a very highly regarded private plane. About 15 years ago Porshe partnered up with Mooney and created a Porsche powered airplane. It went like stink, but pilots couldn't get used to a single throttle control (rather than throttle and mixture) and the project died on the vine.

DannyBoy

Honda And Piper Take To The Skies On A Wing, A Prayer And A HondaJet

hellodarling! — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:12:38 EDT

It's looks like Sputnik; spherical but pointy at parts.

hellodarling!