Innovative Light Jet Visits NASA Langley

NASA’s Langley Research Center hosted a HondaJet, created by a company better known for cars, motorcycles and lawn mowers. It is one of a relatively new class of airplanes called light jets, designed to carry four to seven passengers and be fast, safe, reliable and able to use very small airports. Light jets were developed in part with the help of research done more than 10 years ago by NASA’s Advanced General Aviation Transportation Experiments alliance and its follow-on, the Small Aircraft Transportation