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Originally Posted by gordner View Post
It is not a particularly technologically advanced aircraft, really a pretty run of the mill light jet. They are the first manufacturer to build their own jet engine though, in conjunction with GE, but it is Honda engine powered.
I maybe wrong here but I thought it was the first private jet to have a carbon fibre fuselage, that seems pretty technologically advanced to me

I saw a presentation from the Honda design engineers around about 10 yrs ago and they seemed very proud of the fact it designed in and being built from carbon fibre.
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