Honda Luxury Jet

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cflord
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Honda Luxury Jet

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Honda is making a luxury jet with really weird engine mounting pylons:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/21/57357 ... rd-engines

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Weird? Maybe, but nothing new at all in Good Old Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFW-Fokker_614 8) :D
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It looks like Honda may have borrowed the engine pod idea from Fokker.

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its no worse than the side-mounted engines on the gulfstream jets, they just stuck the mountings on the wings rather than the fuse :)

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stiz wrote:its no worse than the side-mounted engines on the gulfstream jets, they just stuck the mountings on the wings rather than the fuse :)
It actually is better. They've got a reason for that kind of arrangement. In a small, short body jet, the engine noise - especially of these small, fast turning engines, is easily audible in the cabin. Also, if mounted to the fuselage, the vibrations from the engines affect the cabin. Due to small ground clearance, it would not be an option to install them traditionally under the wings. If you check out a configuration of, let's say, the latest G650, the engines are quite much back from most of the cabin (though the inlets are still in front of the rear pressure bulkhead). Compare that to the Citation Mustang, where the case is not so.

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AirVenture 2006 was when I first saw the Honda Jet.

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