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Cirrus Vision SF50: Would You Buy this Jet?
07-15-2011, 02:03 AM
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Some news on the Honda program.
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With Pride, Honda Shows Off Its New Factory.
(S. Pope, 7/13, Flying) Honda Aircraft briefly drew back the veil of mystery surrounding its secretive HondaJet program on Tuesday, allowing members of the media to tour a gleaming, $100 million aircraft factory the company has just completed at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina.HondaJet president and CEO Michimasa Fujino led the tour through the brand new (although mostly vacant) aircraft assembly halls, where HondaJets will be produced en masse starting in the third quarter of 2012, after the twinjet gains its FAA type certificate. Honda is currently assembling the second and third FAA-conforming prototypes. They will soon join the first flight-test airplane, which made its maiden trip aloft last December. That airplane has since expanded its flight envelope to a maximum speed of 425 knots (five knots faster than the HondaJet’s promised top speed) and altitude of 43,000 feet...
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With Pride, Honda Shows Off Its New Factory.
(S. Pope, 7/13, Flying) Honda Aircraft briefly drew back the veil of mystery surrounding its secretive HondaJet program on Tuesday, allowing members of the media to tour a gleaming, $100 million aircraft factory the company has just completed at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina.HondaJet president and CEO Michimasa Fujino led the tour through the brand new (although mostly vacant) aircraft assembly halls, where HondaJets will be produced en masse starting in the third quarter of 2012, after the twinjet gains its FAA type certificate. Honda is currently assembling the second and third FAA-conforming prototypes. They will soon join the first flight-test airplane, which made its maiden trip aloft last December. That airplane has since expanded its flight envelope to a maximum speed of 425 knots (five knots faster than the HondaJet’s promised top speed) and altitude of 43,000 feet...
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