Successful people build each other up. They motivate, inspire and push each other. Unsuccessful people just hate, blame and complain.
Many, if not most, light aircraft have been powered by horizontally opposed engines built by companies such as Continental and Lycoming since way before I can recall and I'm 71. Even today they dominate the market until you get into the very upper end of it where you find turbo props and jets. The flat engine was around a long time before Honda started tinkering with it but when they did, they sure did a good job of it.
Not to confuse but a Flat Six Boxer Engine has six individual rod journals on it crankshaft. Our Flat Six F6B Motors are considered 180 degree with the crankshaft employing only three rod journals. Two connecting rods share the same journal! When one piston is at TDC the shared journal piston is at BDC
Yep, here is the flat 6 Boxer engine with 6 rod journals, But I must disagree with your view that the Honda Goldwing flat six only has three rod journals as you can clearly see in the pic below the one of the Boxer engine. Also that is why one side of the F6B engine is offset front to back due to the pistons not being evenly across with each other.
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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot -
the guy who invented the second one... he was the genius!
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