Icon's A5 makes first flight, still very 007-ish

Less than a month after the Icon A5 was officially rolled out, the little amphibious Light Sport Airplane made its first flight last week according to an article from AVweb. The A5, with its sweet electrically folding wing design, launched from a lake in Southern California for the flight. "Everything went as well as an initial test flight possibly could go," said Jon Karkow, lead engineer and test pilot. This little carbon fiber beauty has garnered a lot of interest in its design and should be a crowd favorite at Oshkosh later this month where it will be on display. The $139,000 price tag is a nice incentive as well. Icon is anticipating deliveries in 2010 to all of those lucky pilots who will be making the rest of us green with envy. Who wouldn't want to fly this thing?


(AVweb)

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Foldable plane would make James Bond jealous

Finally, they have made a Swiss Army Knife that can fly. Well, not really. But the new ICON A5 Light Sport Airplane (LSA) is definitely the sexiest little plane I've seen in a while. Who wouldn't want something that looks like this? And it really flies to boot! This little guy can cruise up to 138 mph and even includes a deployable recovery parachute. Of course, if you choose to land it in the conventional manner (non-crashing), just fold the wings up and stick it in your garage.

Oh, did I tell you if you can't find a runway it can land on water too?



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