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Honda is making a luxury jet with really weird engines
The Japanese auto giant has been quietly researching small jets since the late 1980s, debuting the HondaJet as a multimillion-dollar experiment over a decade ago in 2003. The six-passenger bullet cruises at 420 knots — about 0.63 Mach — and gets power from a pair of specially designed turbofans developed through a joint venture with General Electric. (www.theverge.com) Más...
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The engines aren't weird, the placement is (though by no means unique). The same design was used by the VFW-Fokker 614 for example.
