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Oh cool. This is good news for a lot of us who have been waiting for such a jet.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic but I genuinely have loved this plane ever since I heard of it.

Primarily excited because I'm a huge fan of Honda, secondarily because the price-point, it is fairly affordable for what it is and I can hope to own one by my 50's when the price comes down a bit.

Look for the cirrus vision jet, it's about $2million.

At $5.25 mil, how far are you hoping they’ll depreciate?

I was sarcastic. There is just nothing in this that's interesting in any way for this site unless I didn't see what makes this jet in any way novel. Otherwise we'll have to start posting all press releases for the latest Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini.

Introducing a new plane from a new company in a stagnant market is slightly different than another model from companies already in the car market. But thanks for coming here to tell us all how uninteresting it is for you!

FTA it looks exactly like what you describe, a new model from a company already in the market. Is it disrupting the industry in a way that those of us less versed in the aircraft industry don't see?

Very light jets are somewhat disruptive, having the altitude, speed, range, and reliability benefits of jets with turboprop/piston-engine single pilot capability and costs. There was nothing equivalent in general aviation prior to their arrival. The HondaJet is an innovative leader in this fairly hot space.

There is a potential for air taxi services opened up by these VLJs as well.

Instead of buying a 2.5 million dollar tear down house in Silicon Valley you rent for $800 a month far away and fly in every day.

I know you were joking, but I was curious so I looked it up: the HondaJet can get about 4MPG (though presumably less for short trips), jet fuel currently costs about $2.20 per gallon (not sure if that’s retail or wholesale), and let’s say Stockton to SJC which is about 84 miles (though I’d probably go somewhere up or down the coast, or maybe Tahoe). That’s only 84/4*2.2 = $46 each way, in about 20 minutes.

Plus maintenance, storage, airport fees, pilot if you can’t fly it yourself, probably other stuff I don’t know about. Still, that’s a less fuel than I thought it would be.

And, in at least one revision of the tax bill you would have gotten to write all those maintenance expenses off.

I'm genuinely asking... what plane can one rent for $800 a month, and that's with payments for ground services aside?

I think parent meant “rent a living space” far away cheaply, rather than renting a plane.

Read again, the housing is $800, the plane is 2.5m.

> Otherwise we'll have to start posting all press releases for the latest Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini.

Or... Tesla? Or any other car that is technologically novel, typically along some axis of self driving and/or electrical.

Instead of buying a 5 million dollar house in Silicon Valley you rent for $800 a month far away and fly in every day.

Not for me - last week I signed a contract on the now-deprecated HA-420.

One thing that made me giggle is that in the elite they threw a seatbelt in the lavatory, meaning you can legally carry one more passenger now. Who's the lucky person that get's strapped in the shitter?

That's clearly for customers who are carrying captives in their jets.

But still want to stay on the good side of the FAA.

Uncle bob, who’s a bit “leaky” shall we say

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