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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr
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. |
I think carbon fiber was first used in a serious way on an aircraft when Beech built the Starship, starting in the mid-1980s. It was not a jet, but a turboprop, and a pretty comfortable plane to fly in. It's about 100 knots down on speed compared to the Honda, but it's bigger inside and has a better range. I have a friend that still flies one, it's not a bad way to get from point A to point B.