What really surprised me when I heard about it was that even after all those decades of research and development, there was still room to develop novel laminar

What really surprised me when I heard about it was that even after all those decades of research and development, there was still room to develop novel laminar flow wings and fuselage to be used in a business jet[1] in the early 2000s. [1] https://global.honda/en/products/HondaJet/innovation/innovation2.html https://global.honda/en/products/HondaJet/innovation/innovat... https://www.hondajet.com/-/media/HondaJet/Documents/Technical-Papers/PDF/Journal_of_Aircraft_Vol40_No4_P609_P615_SHM_1_NLF.pdf https://www.hondajet.com/-/media/HondaJet/Documents/Technica...