Michimasa Fujino
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is a Japanese engineer and businessman, the founding president & CEO of Honda Aircraft Company
, the Honda
subsidiary responsible for Honda’s overall airframe business strategy, and the further development, sales promotion and production of the innovative HondaJet
.
Prior to leading the formation of Honda Aircraft Company, Fujino-san was a vice president with Honda R&D Americas, Inc.
, and the Large Project Leader for the HondaJet program based in Greensboro, North Carolina. In this capacity, he led all engineering tasks from design through experimental verification, fabrication and flight testing of the HondaJet.
Fujino-san joined Honda R&D Co., Ltd. in Japan in 1984, after graduating from the University of Tokyo
with a degree in aeronautical engineering. He spent the first two years of his career in the automobile research division working on the development of a new electrical control steering system. Fujino-san was then assigned to a research project in the field of aviation.
Over the past 20 years, he has been involved in the design and development of aircraft and has participated in several aircraft projects. This included major responsibilities in the design and development of two experimental aircraft: the MH01, a single-engine, turboprop, composite airplane, and the MH02, an all-composite, business jet. He has also performed research in the fields of configuration design, advanced aerodynamics including natural laminar flow (NLF), and transonic aeroelasticity. He has developed theoretical techniques for the aerodynamic and aeroelastic design of the HondaJet. In addition, he has conducted wind-tunnel and flight tests at research facilities around the world.
He was named Large Project Leader for the HondaJet program in 1997. Fujino-san was responsible for the development of the over-the-wing engine-mount configuration, the high-speed NLF airfoil, the NLF fuselage nose, and the all-composite fuselage structure of the HondaJet.
Fujino-san became president & CEO of Honda Aircraft Company in October 2006.
Honda Aircraft Company
The Honda Aircraft Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company that has developed the prototype HondaJet and is slated to manufacture and market the production version of the aircraft...
, the Honda
Honda
is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...
subsidiary responsible for Honda’s overall airframe business strategy, and the further development, sales promotion and production of the innovative HondaJet
Honda HA-420 HondaJet
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.
Prior to leading the formation of Honda Aircraft Company, Fujino-san was a vice president with Honda R&D Americas, Inc.
Honda R&D Americas
Honda R&D Americas, Inc. is an automobile, motorcycle, ATV, and Jet airplane developer located in North America. It develops vehicles for Honda and Acura sales....
, and the Large Project Leader for the HondaJet program based in Greensboro, North Carolina. In this capacity, he led all engineering tasks from design through experimental verification, fabrication and flight testing of the HondaJet.
Fujino-san joined Honda R&D Co., Ltd. in Japan in 1984, after graduating from the University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
with a degree in aeronautical engineering. He spent the first two years of his career in the automobile research division working on the development of a new electrical control steering system. Fujino-san was then assigned to a research project in the field of aviation.
Over the past 20 years, he has been involved in the design and development of aircraft and has participated in several aircraft projects. This included major responsibilities in the design and development of two experimental aircraft: the MH01, a single-engine, turboprop, composite airplane, and the MH02, an all-composite, business jet. He has also performed research in the fields of configuration design, advanced aerodynamics including natural laminar flow (NLF), and transonic aeroelasticity. He has developed theoretical techniques for the aerodynamic and aeroelastic design of the HondaJet. In addition, he has conducted wind-tunnel and flight tests at research facilities around the world.
He was named Large Project Leader for the HondaJet program in 1997. Fujino-san was responsible for the development of the over-the-wing engine-mount configuration, the high-speed NLF airfoil, the NLF fuselage nose, and the all-composite fuselage structure of the HondaJet.
Fujino-san became president & CEO of Honda Aircraft Company in October 2006.
External links
- Honda Aircraft Company, Inc.
- USA Today - Honda brings small-jet dynamo to market
- USA Today - Honda's microjet ready for takeoff
- Forbes - Flight Plans
- The Robb Report - Icons & Innovators: Honda: The Old Man and the Sky
- Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine - A & S Interview: Michimasa Fujino
- Aviation International News Online - Michimasa Fujino: father of the HondaJet
- Aviation International News Online - Movers & Shakers: Honda defined the compact car. Can it do the same thing with a business jet?
- Greensboro News & Record - HondaJet picks PTI
- AOPA Pilot Magazine - HondaJet: Behind the Curtain
- The Detroit News - New HondaJet ready for takeoff
- VLJ Magazine - Michimasa Fujino CEO, Honda Aircraft Company
- Journal of Aircraft - Design and Development of the HondaJet