What is it like to fly the latest iteration of the HondaJet - the HondaJet Elite II?
We took on a mission to ferry the HondaJet Elite II across the atlantic ocean from Greensboro, North Carolina to Geneva, Switzerland for EBACE2023!
Follow us along on our mission as we hit six different countries in two days.
Whoops! Our software screwed up the titles for Scotland and Switzerland. To both countries, we formally request your forgiveness and hope to travel to your nations in the future.
On behalf of Scotla and Switzerla I accept your apology...
I,,,,, LOVED IT....!! I really, really want to fly one..
my dad is the coolest!!! proud of you dad
Ellie, I think he’s pretty cool too! He takes good care of my husband Jonathan. Or maybe it’s the other way around… 🤔😂
Whoever is running the content for Honda needs a raise. This is awesome! The pilots are fun characters too! Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺
Please, Mr. Honda, keep us informed if that personnel got their raise! :D
Agreed!
Such a great team. Jonathan and Steve represent the company so well.
yes. very nice
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Are any Irish or U.K. airports included in the list of alternative airports in case of emergency situations?
Fun fact, at 27:18 the chunk of rock is called Ailsa Craig, where the granite for around 70% of the world's curling stones is quarried.
Interesting video. In the late 1960's I was a U.S. Coast Guard radarman stationed aboard a few different C.G. ships that were primarily used to man Atlantic Ocean Stations. There were 4 manned ocean stations during my time. Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Echo. With Bravo being the most Northern station between Canada and Iceland. On occasion we would be notified to watch for a smaller aircraft, like a small Cessna, being ferried across to Europe. Most often those small planes would cross directly over us and be coming out of Gander and heading directly for the Azores. We would hold a short conversation with them and usually forward their flight info to Air Traffic Control via teletype or sometimes even via 500 kw C.W. We were generally on station for 3 weeks at a time with a travel time of 2 to 3 days each way. My home ports were Boston and New Bedford, Ma. This may or may not be of interest to anyone :)
I find this very interesting. So you're saying that the coast guard ship WAS the station? And it was In the middle of the Atlantic just loitering in a specific area? Or if not, what was the station?
Well, 17 of us liked it so far. Now it's out there for future historians to find also.
As a professional pilot, it's nice to see 2 pilots getting on so well and enjoying the flights together. I've done a number a ferry flights and I've always enjoyed them
I’m wondering if they take maximum fuel weight at each stop they make and ensure that all of the fuel tanks are kept 100% full at all times, if this is feasible for takeoff distance and other onboard weights?
Why? Don't 2 pilots get on so well in general?
Amazing. This should just be its own vlog series. These two guys, flying around the world, visiting places, good vibes :)
These long distance transatlantic ferry flights almost seem in some respects that they are also serving as test flights for all of the aircraft systems
One of the best videos I've seen from an aircraft manufacturer channel. Usually these kind of videos are all the same. They certainly never make me smile and giggle. This video was a great example of how it should be done. Both informative and fun! More of these, please!
I wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid! You guys are living everyone's childhood dream! Well done!
This channel just popped up and I got totally pulled in. Beautiful plane and 2 very professional pilots that were personable and obviously did a fantastic job representing your company and aircraft.
Same here, impressive. 👍
Please do more videos! This is one of the best produced cross-country videos I have ever watched. Those pilots are perfect ambassadors for HondaJet. It's easy to tell they love their jobs
As you made this flight in a sophisticated corporate jet, my thoughts were with those ferry pilots during WW2, flying the same route, in propeller driven military aircraft. Big changes in aviation.
I have no reason to get a Honda Jet, but this was just fun to watch. What a team. Great work Honda!
Ive supported Honda some through the years.1981 CB750F..1991CBR1000F..1996 CBR1000F..LOVED them All.
Great work! I'm ex GE so glad to see the GE-Honda engines getting a workout! Great video. Well put together, thanks Honda for taking the time to assemble this video!
These two pilots need their own tv or KZhead series. They are super entertaining.
I was blown away by the weights. The last time I crossed the Atlantic as a crew member it took 150,000 pounds of fuel. Our takeoff weight was 593,000 pounds, we offloaded 150,000 pounds of fuel and our landing weight was about 290,000 pounds.
This was highly entertaining. Never thought I would watch 40 minutes of a flight, but darn if I wasn't enlightened the whole time. Well done to the editing crew who put this together and to Jonathan and Steve for providing the play by play.
Honda management, you have some very good product ambassadors representing you. Great vid.
I’ve always LOVED the fact that Honda made the WHOLE car industry HAVE TO BUILD more durable dependable higher quality cars. THANKYOU! For that! They changed the “disposable” car industry into the more “reliable” car industry by raising the standard so the public INSISTED on it. I saw a few years back they were building a “secret” plane, not a secret anymore…a real dream come to life! I always thought…if I were to buy a private plane…it would be THIS ONE! I LOVE IT! It looks high quality like the car and these pilots did a great job! Very professional and dependable and trustworthy wouldn’t mind flying with them at all! Looks fun!
Never thought a video of taking a plane from one place to another could be so interesting. Great pilots, great plane, great content. Thanks for the video. A 10 out of 10.
I really enjoyed flying along with Jonathan and Steve. >>>What a beautiful jetliner.....gorgeous! >>>How I wished to experience such a flight and adventure. >>>So nice to see J.& S sense of humour, and commaderie. >>>Kudos to the film maker and editing....job well done. >>>Hope to see more videos in the near future.
What a great channel. I have just discovered this, totally by accident. I could watch lots more vids with Jonathan and Steve.
Great camaraderie between the pilots. Wonderful to see that in a team environment. Good Luck to the Honda Team!
By far the best team in the cockpit I’ve ever seen on KZhead!
Great flight, Great plane. The HonaJet is a good plane, a credit to Honda with the planes capabilities. . Flown by two professional pilots who have fun!
Dang!! I was with you the whole flight. Nice going, gentlemen, thanks for taking us along!
That was absolutely amazing! Really high quality stuff. Great footage, great plane, the two pilots such cool pros and fantastic and educational journey. Greetings (and thanks) from London 😀
Awesome. This has popped up several times and I’m just now getting around to watching it. I should have watched it much sooner! This was 40 thoroughly entertaining minutes! Nice job fellas!
Absolutely fascinating video. Both Steve & Jonathan are a credit to Honda & Hondajet!
These guys are absolutely the most professional guys to fly such a small jet
I live in goose bay and I always enjoy seeing all the jets and small aircraft, and military that fly here to make there way across the Atlantic. The drone footage of goose bay was great
These two pilots are fantastic! What a great video. They should do more as they are v engaging.
I worked for years at GE Aviation. Always excited about their involvement with propulsion on the Honjet. Great video.
I hope they do some cool Easter eggs for the mechanics like Honda used to do back in the days with there engines lol
What an awesome adventure! It's a little scary in a tiny jet so far over water, but I'd feel more than safe in these guys capable hands.
The dynamic you guys have up front is awesome .. proper role models for any aspiring flight crew.
Great content & great jet. Well done, thanks for making the effort to capture and post this.
These guys are brilliant, I hope they make their own series!. Such a great team. Jonathan and Steve represent the company so well..
Fantastic documentation of an amazing adventure with a very cool jet, and tasty looking packed lunches. :)
These guys are great ... Just goofy enough to be funny and still so professional. Look forward for more if these guys adventures...
These guys are brilliant, I hope they make their own series!
Fantastic video, just great to see two guys doing something they clearly love and such a great relationship between the two of them. Brilliant
Excellent video. What a fabulous team up front. Super professional and very entertaining.
This was SUPERB editing!!!! I think that should be mentioned first. Because the editor(s) managed to take all those hours and hours of maybe a lot of uninteresting things (because there's only so much you could see that would be interesting) and make it a fun, light hearted, adventurous video. I even loved when the name of the location showed up on the screen in large font when you all were about. to land. As well as, great filming. Even the b-rolls were pretty cool and given some nice thought. Of course, great personalities as well. To mention things in a non-technical way yet in a way that pilots and lovers of flight, would still find interesting. As it has been typed, great folks to represent Honda. Now, I'm not a pilot or editor. I'm an actor that hopes one day to have my pilot's license. All I know about the Honda Jet is from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. It's a smooth plane and easy to understand. The Garmin system in it isn't as updated as what I see here. But, it's still good enough. Lastly, I appreciate this flight. I'm going to try and imitate it one day soon. I'm in California and most of my sim flights stem from here. I need to change that. LOL Great video overall. I didn't even realize that 40 minutes had flown by (no pun). New Subscriber!!!😁👍🏾✌🏾
Very cool mission! CRM was incredible! Use to do air shows and other similar missions 20 years ago. Thanks for bringing back some great memories. 👍😎
I love the synergy between rhe pilots. Such amazing and lively duo
What a wonderful flight on such a beautiful machine!❤
Without a doubt, the sexiest aircraft on three wheels today. Great vid! Thanks guys.
Well… Never seen content like this before… however… I was in the aviation business for over 25 years and the most important stuff, right at the beginning, weight and balance… is the MOST IMPORTANT aspect of the whole journey planning. So nice you gave this process some room and showed it to your audience… 👍 Good team effort ☺️ Greetings from Germany everybody 👋 P.S. Planning six legs is the smart thing to do, obviously you want extra precautions when you get to the Arctic Circle and since these two gentlemen have plenty of experience… they KNOW things can go wrong 🎉
What exactly were you involved in for 25 years?
Great video folks, stunning scenery, beautiful aircraft, thanks for the share. :)
Really enjoyed flying with you guys!
Nice video! I've enjoyed the trip with you two Sincere regards from Argentina
Very few corporate channels can create KZhead videos that seem like they could’ve been made by an independent creator. That is after all why people like KZhead. Great job on this. Keep it up and the channel will definitely grow.
I've followed the development of the Hondajet way back in the early 2k's. To see it come to fruition was amazing, and now I'm seeing such a thing once again with the Lilium Jet. Two absolutely brilliant aircraft making an all new niche in the industry.
To both pilots, I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video. What a trip! What a wonderful job to have. It is great to watch two professional pilots going about their day-job with so much aplomb. It must have been a wonderful aircraft to fly, especially such a distance. Thank you to all those who were involved in the production of this video and also for posting. Best regards from the Giant’s Causeway Coast of Northern Ireland. 😄👍☘️
I have a love for this jet. No pilot just enthusiast. Would one day love to get even a short journey in one. Love how the equipment works in the aircraft, the systems are really good in these aircraft! Nice chaps and a good video, no skipping ;)
Really enjoyed these flights, love the engineering of biz jets, especially one so unique, fantastic crew, well done lads, Honda deserves to sell more of these
Hats off to these guys. I had a ferry pilot fly my Cessna 310D over to the UK from Arkansas, using the same routing. The difference was ..he did IT SOLO, and without an operational autopilot !. It was fully checked over in Goose Bay, to ensure it was upto the trip. No work was needed and he set off I was told he set an atlitude alarm he provided himself ..so he could have a snooze while airborne en-route 😮😮... although he did say once trimmed the aircraft it flew dead straight and level. I collected it from him at Preswick in Scotland, and flew him down to Biggin Hill near to London where he lived, listening to his fascinating stories of mine and other aircraft he has flown over.
Awesome video and an amazing trip. I fly a HondaJet and am jealous of the mission you guys had! Great job!!
Oh man, I really enjoyed this! They have such great chemistry together. I hope to see more from you two. Love from Austria. 🇦🇹
WOOOW!! 😍 I love Aviation, I love HondaJet, I love this video, great job guys! I hope one day I can fly on this amazing Jet ✈✈✈
This reminds me of my previous job, ferrying F-5 E/F jets from Palmdale, CA to Europe and beyond, mostly beyond. Our last stop leaving North America was Goose Bay, then Sondrestrom, Greenland, Keflavik, Iceland then either Ireland or Scotland, made that trip at least 15 times.
Beautiful aircraft, never heard of HondaJet, fantastic journey and 2 excellent pilots.
What a beautiful little jet, and two happy pilots. Nice video.
This was such an awesome video. Really loved this. Johnathan and Steve are such a vibe! I hope they are a part of more such content. Hope to fly on the HondaJet someday. Looks SWEET!
This is an incredible content creation, no need to mention the role playing of the pilots. I wanted to be on that plane :) Congratulations to the whole team.
Nice to hear correct radio technique from American pilots 👍
What an exciting journey. Despite I'm not in the cockpit, you people transmit all the positive vibe around the Honda jet. Congrats, you did amazingly.
Nice to see sheepskin being brought back for the seats. The straight leather is brutal.
You guys are really nice company. Never have I felt so "safe and secure" by flying. Dream pilot team 😂 💪❤
I can't believe I watched the whole video! Excellent job.
Gorgeous aircraft and fantastic communication between the pilots in my limited opinion ❤
This team made the complex task of operational awareness a top priority. Many thanks!
Beautiful video! Many thanks you 2 :) Oh yeah... regards from Geneva.
Watching these two fly is the best possible advertisement for Honda, keep up this type of adventure
Great video guys! Awsome production, keep this kind of content coming!
You guys did a great job producing this wonderful video, especially the transatlantic capabilities of HondaJet
Proud to have this incredible aircraft built in my hometown.
didnt think i's watch a honda video .....i got stuck in after a few minutes and watched till the end ....great video.
Great fun and details with you two gentlemen…. Thank you…. !
Thank you for sharing thos beautiful crossing of the Atlantic.
Excellent video. I am a retired A&P. Spent 45 years working on multi engine helicopters.
Great video, and throughly enjoyed the consummately professional crew. A joy.
Exceptional video. Did not anticipate looking at the whole video but I was fully committed within 5 minutes. Thank you very much. I look forward to future videos. You have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. Peace.
Great video! Lovely production and such a team. I had the joy of being part of a similar flight just in reverse (Oslo, Norway - Phoenix, Az) and the amount of stops felt so weird compared to "normal" flying but the amount of sights and photos we could see and take was astonishing.
Thanks for the great video. Love the HondaJet. You guys are a fantastic team!!
Really enjoyed that. Didn't come across as promo at all. The best marketing!! Fun guys too. Honda jets on the map for sure.
Fantastic CRM. Beautiful aircraft. Love these crossings from USA to Europe and back.
This video is fantastic! You're an inspiration to many pilots guys. The plane is gorgeous and amazing.
Great content and plane. Pilots are so good that they make it look so easy, impressive plane too!
Steve holding up that Turkey Sandwich with the proudest face is the type of energy i need in my life. I love the video and love Jet! I hope to have one of my own one day.
Well, that was an unexpectedly fun video. I was just looking at the Hondajet but the "mission" hooked me and I couldn't sleep tonight if I hadn't watched the whole thing. I love KZhead. Better than television.
Really enjoyed watching this video from the comforts of my home in San Antonio, Texas.
Thank you for being so complimentary about Scotland 👍
Thoroughly enjoyed this, would love to see more from these two!
Loved the pilots, amazing crew. They're the prime example of "fly the airplane but DON'T become the airplane." Both very professional and great at what they're doing, all of that without being a bunch of by the book robots.
Thought I would take a glance at this. Ended up watching the whole vid. Very interesting, very, very professional team. They made it look so easy.
This was fun to watch. Thank you for sharing 😊
Impressive I have always admired the Honda jet but you guys take this to a new level and show the professionalism and responsibility associated with your profession.