Michimasa Fujino
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Michimasa Fujino is the president and chief executive officer of the Honda Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company. [1]
Interested in aviation as a child, Fujino trained in aeronautical engineering and joined Honda in 1984. From 1986 to 1995, he studied advanced aeronautics at Mississippi State University with a small group of Honda engineers that participated in the development of the MH02. After returning to Japan, Fujino convinced Honda executives to support the development of a lightweight jet.[2] In 2001, he moved to Greensboro, North Carolina to oversee the team that developed the HA-420 HondaJet very light jet.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Honda Motor Company (August 16, 2006). Honda Aircraft Company Established. Press release.
- ^ Mahoney, Patrick (Feb. 27, 2007) "Go little Honda". Machine Design, p. 84.
- ^ Barbara De Lollis. ""Honda brings small-jet dynamo to market"", USA Today, 2006-09-26. Retrieved on September 26, 2006.
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