Why are the HondaJet's Engines Mounted Over the Wings? | HondaJet Studio
The HondaJet unlocks Honda's skyward mobility by introducing entirely new, breakthrough aviation technologies to deliver an aircraft that brings a new value to the business aviation industry. Many have come to appreciate the HondaJet's innovative and unique design that was born from a goal of revolutionizing aerodynamics. Why are the engines mounted over the wings? What does the configuration achieve besides the unique, iconic looking? Watch as our host, Josh, walks you through the development of the HondaJet’s signature design feature, the Over The Wing Engine Mount.
📢Highlights:
00:01 The HondaJet: An Introduction
00:47 Welcome to Honda Aircraft Company!
01:11 1980s Flashback and why Honda entered aviation
02:00 Birth of the Private Jet
02:43 Lab 1: OTWEM vs Fuselage Mounted Engine
04:09 Welcome to Honda Aircraft’s Assembly Line
05:21 The Cavernous Aft Cargo
06:09 Where are these engines supposed to go?
06:47 Well, on the wing, but how?
07:57 We did it! - But’s it’s complicated.
08:31 Lab 2: Shockwaves and drag
10:03 What’s a pylon?
11:14 How engine pylons help you enjoy your flight!
12:15 We rest our case
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This has to be the best video that Honda has come out with for their jet so far. Well done!
I love how Honda thinks outside of the box!
Even in their Jet Program Soichiro Honda's innovative spirit lives on. Truly a remarkable company.
A big Salute from Honda and their engineers❤🫡
I read the white paper on the Honda jet's engine mounts, honestly was really interesting for me as an engineering student at the time. Also I think reading that changed my opinion on 'reinventing the wheel'. Turns out, in a specialized enough focus, you are better off reinventing the wheel instead of trying to shove a less efficient existing solution into your very niche design.
Yeah, that's what Elon Musk said when he reflected on Tesla's first electric car. It would've been better to reinvent electric cars than to make a car (Lotus) change from gas to electric.
like tesla changing battery design with the many tabs instead of just one
Extraordinarily well done and informative. Just the right amount of tech and infographics without dumbing it down or making it inaccessible to non-engineers. Not an easy feat when it comes to explaining technology. Well done.
I have always had a soft spot for Hondas. The younger version of myself got into motorcycles. My first “bike” was a 50cc “Bridgestone”, but then came the Hondas, a 305 scrambler and a CB350. While my friends worked on their British bikes all the time and cleaned up the oil drippings, I was generally enjoying a ride with a young lady. The one that would become my wife of 50+ years was a frequent passenger on the 350. Work and life’s demands took me away from biking for several decades (then the Harley arrived - until the MDs took that away). However along the way we discovered the quality and reliability of Honda cars. The Frau has had two Accords and I have had an insight and a CR-V. While I must admit they certainly are not a fun to drive as the Corvette I once had, nor as gorgeous and sexy as my new toy - an SLK roadster - the Hondas sure are reliable. All 4 Hondas combined were in the shop for non- scheduled service repairs less that a single Ford Escape I foolishly purchased, and even less that the SLK, and are certainly far less expensive to fix. I am sure there will be a Honda in our life for as long as we own vehicles. If I needed a jet, the Honda Jet would be considered, at least as a “time shared” plane. Honda makes good stuff, the Mrs. even opted on a Honda lawn mower.
One of the best videos ever about HondaJet. Thanks
Our pleasure!
@@HondaJetTV I love you
Excellent job buddy! Love these planes they’re such inspiration, hoping to own one within the next 5-8 years
Excellent work 🛫 Nice ❤
We want more content like this!
that was a great presentation, so clear and concise. Great articulation, pace, and depiction of the aeronautical and engineering concepts. Long live Honda!
Great video and explanation. I ❤️ The Hondajet. I have flown many times on the Fokker 100 with fuselage mounted engines. The noise and vibration in the rear of the plane is massive.
I am biased against corporate self-appreciative marketing. However this video is really cool and very well put together, doesn't feel (much) like an extended ad and finds a love balance between the science and the "cool airplane stuff".
Fantastic aircraft HondaJet and a superb video which easily explains the Engineering and advantages achieved by its placement on the wings. Great job by the guy breaking it down for anyone to understand.
Love it. I have a Honda mower, Honda Civic and a Honda Element. Now I just need a jet.
Great answer to the most often asked question. Nice job!
What an interesting and engaging presentation...A proper and simplified blend of fluid dynamics & Engineering.... 👏👏
Thank you so much HondaJet for sharing with us such a wonderful story.
Wow that was really well done! The performance already spoke for itself that was just some delicious icing on a great cake.
This video truly well done and easy to digest. Kudos Honda aircraft.
really great and entertaining presentation on the engineering of the Honda jet!
The explanation with hardware and software is 👍👍👍. Thoroughly enjoyed 🥰.
Very well done. Great explanation on engine placement. One thing to remember is that the Jet engines produce linear pounds of thrust. Foot-pounds is a twisting force…torque. 😊
You explained so beautiful...loved it
Awesome video y’all!! Love this aircraft 👍🏻
Great job of Honda's engineers 👍. Greeting from Indonesia. Hope our engineers can learn what the innovation create here.
Love this video.... very formative 👍
Great video. I've been to the Honda tent at Oshkosh a number of times. This guy reminds me a lot of Kevin O'Connor, the host of "This Old House".
You (Honda) produced an ingenious aircraft/ engine design (as you well know). Thinking about this design got me thinking about wingtip engines. there is a researcher who is expermenting with wingtip engines with R/C models. Interesting engineering (for me). Thanks for creating and uploading this informative video.
Huh! Did not know Honda made planes! Nice! Very cool and cute little aircraft!! Neat innovations! Not that I would ever see the inside of one in the flesh...
amazing video, very well explained, long live honda
This is a great explainer.
Beautiful aircraft....would love to experience flying ing one just once.
That's a Beautiful machine, i wish I could own this for my self.
3:33 good presentation 8:17 some action anyone can relate to. Made great sense and felt similarities between us 8:31 a transition frame spining things made viewers throwback to old memory and bring them closer have attachment to this video. Great
Fantastic video and an awesome explanation of the pylons. I went from being a skeptic to a fan.
every comman man can understand this presentation !!! very nice
That shot at 0:13 is so cool 😍
This video is awesome, please make more!
...excellent video ...great demo
great vid im gonna buy one of these
What a great video! The host Josh does an exceptional job of informing while keeping you interested! I learned a lot from this video!
Thank you for Best Vedio on Honda Aviation
The narrator's style and delivery was as superb, as was the content.
Beautiful bird. Would love to see one in person!
Honda engineers have done a pretty good job in applying that concept to a business jet. I don´t want to bust your claim this design configuration is new but I think the Honda engineers looked around what designs have ever been studied but been unsuccessful for the lack of research capabilities ... Just have a look at the VFW-614 (made in 1961): kzhead.info/sun/rdxqqpyer6d5foE/bejne.html&pp=ygUHVkZXLTYxNA%3D%3D Albeit larger being a regional airliner it has exactly the same configuration and the engineers at the time had exactly the same advantages in mind (weight reduction/preventing FOD/easy maintenance/largest cabin space out a the given fuselage length) Unfortunately wing design was not as advanced as it is today and the VFW-614 lacked in performance due to not having the optimum wing design and engine positioning (and ultimately non-support after VFW was taken over by Fokker who was not going to jeopardize their F-28 sales ...) and ultimately there was initially no suitable engine availlable on the market and when RR made a tailored engine for the aircraft it had serious reliability issues ... So, potential customers were not impressed. Honda seems to have done a much better job overall. Congrats.
i like the in depth instruction...thx...hey the only thing i wish they had is a flight stick like a fighter...now that would be kewl...haha....peace
I'm sold, gonna buy one soon for my garage collection
Iam a big fan of Japanese knowledge and creativity!! this video is amazing! iam flying a Honda Jet in the Flight Simulator 2020! in love!
Great video. Thanks
Wooww, what an amazing video. Thank you so much for providing such informative knowledge
I'm sold!
With the engines so far apart with one out is it hard to keep the plane going straight? Lots of great new ideas in the jet.
I hope to own one someday ❤
such an interesting video 🤓
I love this video! Has somebody said to become a private pilot it was so informative, entertaining, and really well done
HondaJet is the snazziest bird in the air today, imho.💚💚💚
Very nice! Just wondering about ice ingestion into the engines from atop the wings in icing conditions.
That badass DC-8 at 10:18 tho.
How do you model bird strike for that engine?
Great airplane ✈️🛫 video
Can't wait for my Honda jet 😄
Great video Honda!
That's a nice plane. I wish I had one.
We needed to be allowed to make something like this 10 years ago
Yes, I’ve always wondered why my honda jet had the engines over the wings.
So much room for activities!
What an awesome video, it's the small things like the animatiion fade at 10:42 that really sell it :) would really love to fly a Honda Jet some time
Bravo!!!
I swear I've seen engine-on-wing before Honda just made it work better. And more efficient.
Fokker 614
VFW 614
Probably the Fokker 614
Yes you aren't wrong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFW-Fokker_614 Their video description is more than misleading lol
Really cool
エンジンの翼上配置のアイデアは昔から存在していたのでしょうが、実際の機体に応用するには困難であり、あらゆるメーカーがコンセプト設計の段階で候補から外していたのでしょうね。 その困難な課題に敢えて挑戦して辛抱強く研究開発を続けていったエンジニア達、米国での型式認定取得という高いハードルを速やかにかつ確実に越えるために経験豊富な米国企業と連携する選択・調整を行った担当者達等の信念が垣間見えた様な気がします。 既存メーカーと同じ物を造っても追いつけない、全く違うアプローチをするんだという、新規参入勢の覚悟がとても格好良いと思いました。 理論は昔からあったものの、実際の製品化が諦められていたロータリーエンジンを信念をもって開発したマツダと同様に、エンジニア魂を感じられる開発ストーリーだと思います。
Gorgeous 🤤
Honda, yeah. really great engineer ideas
...because they look so good on the Hog.
Who designed and built the engines for the Honda jet ? If it was not Honda do they plan to build their own engines in the future and what is the range of the jet on one full tank of gas ?
Nice video
Very interesting
I want one!
Funny Promotional video Well done How does this not have more views
Honda really is the everything Company. Wondering when will Asimo fly my HondaJet.
just wondering that how much does it cost to make 1 hondajet elite S
Great explanation! Edit out the 3 - 4 minute "history" piece.
Best wishes Good innovation
Thank you! Cheers!
LOVE THE BRAND MY ONLY CONCERN IT'S BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES AND NOT IN JAPAN.
My question is then why wouldn't large aircraft makers move the engines to the top side? wondering looks like it would make it safer for ground crews.
Honda👌❤️
nice bird :))
Was it tested by gliding the plane with no engines? And if the engine is detached?
I want one
This guy is hilarious. Who wrote his lines? This is how ads should be.
Great commercial. I would buy a Honda jet.
Ok ok I'll buy one
What about the antigravitic motors being used by the USAF and US navy, that will completely change air transport completely - see TR3B.
how many are already flying ? nice design
The HondaJet fleet is now comprised of over 220 aircrafts, which recently surpassed the 120,000-flight-hour mark in operation, and the numbers are growing ✈.
My guess, without watching…. less stress on the airframe by mounting the jets to the fuselage vs on the wings.
My answer to thay question is pretty simple. WHY NOT !
How will this affect the metal fatigue of the wing ? Will the wing last longer if the engines are on the fuselage?
the silver haired guy at the end walking around the jet looks like the kid from FortNine, if he were in his 50s
My great grand-daughter assures me that its because there is not enough room underneath them.
“while you enjoy your coffee having a chat about that Pickle ball game” Proof this video was geared towards the middle aged to geriatric.