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Honda Motor Co. and General Electric are teaming up to develop and produce market a new jet engine for small business jets. Honda already is the largest maker of internal combustion engines in the world, making engines for a variety of cars, motorcycles, recreational vehicles and power tools like lawn mowers and saws. GE, meanwhile, has long been a major supplier of jet aircraft engines for both military and commercial aircraft. The Japanese auto and motorcycle maker has long wanted to break into the aircraft business and just before Christmas showed off a new lightweight, turbofan aircraft engine developed by its engineers. But Honda officials stressed the company had no immediate plans to sell the engine to aircraft makers. Takeo Fukui, Honda's president, however, said the deal with GE opened up new opportunities for Honda and moved forward the day for commercializing the aircraft engines the automaker had developed. Demand for the engine also is expected to grow over the next decade, Fukui said. -Joe Szczesny
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