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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Honda Luxury Jet
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Re: Honda Luxury Jet
Weird? Maybe, but nothing new at all in Good Old Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFW-Fokker_614
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It looks like Honda may have borrowed the engine pod idea from Fokker.
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Ret SMSgt Cliff Lord - C-130 Flight Engineer & Mechanic
Keep the shiny side up and the dirty side down!
Ret SMSgt Cliff Lord - C-130 Flight Engineer & Mechanic
Re: Honda Luxury Jet
its no worse than the side-mounted engines on the gulfstream jets, they just stuck the mountings on the wings rather than the fuse
Re: Honda Luxury Jet
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.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
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Re: Honda Luxury Jet
AirVenture 2006 was when I first saw the Honda Jet.
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