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Flyways And Byways
Why a HondaJet says more about someone than diamonds ever can
We’ve all had the same experience: you leave on a road trip and half an hour later you can’t remember if you locked the front door behind you, or turned off the oven, or maybe even left a tap dripping into the (inevitably) plugged sink.
Perhaps you’ve flown off to an important conference where you’re scheduled to give a big speech and you realize you left the USB drive at home — the one containing the notes you didn’t backup to the cloud nor copy onto your laptop.
Or you’ve turned up at the altar all dressed in your finest (rented) suit ready to perform your duty as Best Man, only to remember as you stand there listening to the vows that you left the ring back at the office. Which is locked for the weekend.
In my case, I woke up a couple of years into my sixth decade and realized I’d completely forgotten to put aside $100 million. This astonishing oversight means not only that my retirement to Tahiti is now looking rather unlikely, but it also means I can’t afford to purchase and operate a HondaJet.
Which is a nuisance, because the HondaJet is a superb piece of design.
The original concept dates back nearly a quarter of a century and captures Honda’s aspirations to become an…
