First Flight of ICON A5 Prototype

[BlackPaw101]

WANT

[RICHEATHEN]

quero um desse!

[zabuzamomochi55]

where are they selling this???

[cljenkins63]

Cool Airplane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[macaviationart]

I have got to get me one of these! Can't wait for production to start. N531CT MacAviationArt

[TheMancanich1]

dose it come in black?

[vimy787]

Plz build some Flying boat airliners again.... i want to see them flying.... like boeing 314 or shorts empire

[TheSamerq]

NEED!



[AVMamfortas]

Beautiful little craft. Engineering and artistic flair. I will happily offer my services for a year to test fly it wherever you please. No pay! Well, just a small honourarium each month.

[wingplum]

Very nice, I want one.

[PlantOParadise]

I like it how the stress of landing is so much less when your landing in something soft such as water :)

[vagtsig]

Very good work!

[cjellwood]

i want

[thatesedog805]

who builds this plane

[TarikuKunn]

I Feel The Future ... People needs to make flight communities ... like a landing strip field mostly every where

[MMGood44]

Awesome Job Kirk!!! I was considering the piper sport until I discovered the ICON A5!! It's great to see a Clemson alum doing so well, and I will be ordering my own next year. It will be so cool to put this in Lake Hartwell and then attend a game in Death Valley!!

[Geoffr524]

My Sister and BIL, are in the process, of getting their Sport Pilot's Licenses, this month, and they might get a plane of this type. Cool plane.

[grubeci]

I guess these guys are trying to make a folding retractable wing. This would be good if you lived in everglades ore whatnot..good for them.

[leviterande]

pierce brosnan

[s030141]

then people might actually buy one, i know i would

[s030141]

I would like to see an amphibious 4 seater with retracts and automatic wingfold ICON A5 but with a cessna engine or something and have 4 big guys in it, full fuel and still be able to carry at least 5kg luggage each, maybe a much larger engine, possibly constant speed prop engine.

[BaseAurajin]

a cessna 185 amphib?

its cheaper and can be used for more purposes, and why would 20KG of cargo matter? if they all have breakfast thats only 15Kg cargo.

[CmdrGendoIkari]

This aircraft is basically a slick, modern reincarnation of the old Republic Sea Bee.

I think it will be highly successful.

[232lalas]

it sounds really cool, but as a sport reacreational aircraft (sra) it is useless if it is incapable of vertical take-off and landing. An amphibius sra with hovering and vertical capabilities will not be a bad idea in short, a hybridised amphibius recreational sports helioplane (HARSH)

[DEATHBYFLYINGCDS]

Mhmm, and where exactly would somone find such a amazing aircraft, not to mention would it be able to beat the ICON's $140,000 price tag? Last I checked the only planes like that exist in flight simulations, not even the military has planes like that. To make one would easily reach into the 9 digit price range which would make it too difficult to sell for it to be profitable. Heck you can go on vacation in space for 7 digits.

[232lalas]

that is d whole point of d exercise, to be able to create an affordable HARSH, think in terms of collapsible rotors and retractable wings (not the bulky stuff of d terrafugia, i mean something more compact), building a jet thruster into an everyday harsh i accept might be too expensive unless a more affordable means is found of inculcating it into the design, but in all, i dont think its impossible

[BaseAurajin]

meh such an aircraft can be easily made without the only market being bill gates because of the cost, its yet to be made because such an aircraft is unwanted because VTOL takes the fun out of take of and landing, and the military has harriers and f-35's so they don't wan't it either.

[BaseAurajin]

i've yet to see a single VTOL SRA, please point one out to me, its an incredible sra as far as i'm conserned.

[sscobalt815]

searey is better...and cheaper

[whakoman]

Is it just me that thinks it looks like a mix between sports boat/waterskii with nailed on wings and a propeller? :P looks cool indeed, just kinda came to think of it.

[GLR26591]

o my god! this plane is very very beautiful!!!

[Yperanthropoidsx]

This is a beautiful plane!

[Peterr86]

like a sports car..but slower and more expensive :D!

[slafkec]

yeah, safe as a bus with a suicide bomber on it

[viva0la0utube]

If I had $139, 000 this is what I would use it on. By the way on the website their motto is " Ferrari ? So 2008 "

[chupaGer35]

100k € !?

hey a buy two ot them !

[LiberateMusic]

sexy plane

[MarceloFaeFerreira]

Nice aircraft !

[Willscarp]

I would also say if they offered stock in this, I would buy it.

[Willscarp]

This is the coolest thing EVER.. If I had the money I'd buy one for sure.. It would be great for hopping around FL.

[brucenash]

tell me  numbers!

[alisaira4life]

i know. i want to buy one also. that was one of the most coolest water landings. just the design looks fabulous ;))))

[quinnrasta]

The plane has retractable landing gear, cool little plane...its seems more recreational, like a jet ski

[5ozofpain]

i want that

$139,000 No :(

[wadsit2ya]

Woooo! Go icon!! Can it be 2010 and me have 139,000 bucks to buy one already. Seriously, that plane is great, maybe when im 21 in 8 years ill buy one!!!!!!!!

[sansbury95]

Hang in there... stay in school, work hard, you'll get there. I got my private land/sea + instrument in my mid-20s while all my friends were blowing $ on cars that got old a lot faster than my ratings. Stay on track and your time will come!

[brucejr1234567]

@wadsit2ya 6 more years :D

[wadsit2ya2]

@brucejr1234567 haha I'd completely forgotten about this video till I got the email from your comment, yup and only 5 now haha

[therealmarcus]

WANT

[johnkrois]

I want one XD!!

[d0ugfunny]

With some hard work and determination I can hope one day I will buy one. And as far as a plane goes this isn't expensive. I have the feeling that icon will be mainstream very soon.

[gkfolsen]

Nice! Looks like the plane Omsider from Nordic Aircraft

[dennisrocker]

I guess us "PPG" pilots are gonna be "old school" pretty soon huh? Just kidden. Its all good. Beautiful plane. D.C.

[docb76]

Just read the blurb about it in Popular Mechanics, looks like an awesome plane and a great concept. One day when I can afford it I will buy one.

Bank on it. Great job Icon

[akadmin]

Congratulations to the ICON team!

I hope to take one of these up some day... ;)

Now if only you could stall it over a freeway, whip the wings back, flip out some wheels and take off on the road with the power and control of Porsche. A6 perhaps? lol

[alpha254]

Excellent!! :) Light Sport is where it is at in aviation these days; the combination of modern materials, technology and innovation shine brightly in this video. This an others in this market segment will lead the way for a new generation of pilots to take to the sky.

Congratulations ICON team! You have a winner!

[wadsit2ya]

Sorry dude, accidentaly hit the thumbs down, meant to hit the up one

[flamespewer]

if they made a 4 seater i would buy

[marckkkyyy21]

you can only have two people in a Light Sport Aircraft

[flamespewer]

i just saw in popular science. i want one.... now!

[henrikASD]

Nice everything went so well. I love the idea behind this plane. Hopefully I can effort it sometime.

[kaikairr]

BADASS! That plane rocks!