This story is worthy of note for several reasons. Firstly, Honda is getting serious and secondly, it is NOT because of air charter opportunities that are lurking with the new Very Light Jets.

After a nice chat with the folks at Palm Beach Airlines it became apparent that the primary driver for setting up a new business unit in the US has more to do with all the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles that will take to the sky in the coming years. It may not be the news we want to hear, but the fact is that to a manufacturer, the romantic vision of plentiful air taxis is not as compelling as a sky full of Orwellian "Eyes in the Sky."