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[purplehayabusa]

I own one of these artistic marvels of aeronautic engineering. For a modest price of 130, 000, not much more than a shiny new higher-end Mercedes, 3/4 of the Earth truly does become your runway. Very light and sturdy, also it looks like a remote control plane I used to own, which is awesome. I town my A5 around whenever I can because it is a joy to fly anywhere there is a strip or enough water.

[followyourbliss]

never really thought about it but one nice advantage of having a push prop is you don't have that circular blur interfering with your sight with a typical nose prop

love what you're doing! makes me want to go flying again

[howardflies]

One day I will buy this and fly this to school everyday

[Totalwarfan]

This is a profound video. My life can never be the same now.

[AtlantaGawker]

2nd thing on my "To-Buy" list after I roll that fruit stand this weekend... lol

[JeffWelcherMedia]

0:20, did this feature ever end up happening? No only are the wings electronically folding, the clip shows them also rotating for unknown reasons.

[Awsomes]

I fly those things all the time on microsoft flight

[toose]

Yeah it's pretty. The main reason for the pusher prop (other than visibility), is that it works best when using a one piece fuse/cabin & water hull configuration. Also keeps the power train hi and dry. Not much weight advantage, if anything, it's a heavier design. This aircraft's main issue atm is keeping it under LSA weight restrictions. It'a not a new concept by any means, there's currently plenty of LSA amphibian aircraft to choose from that perform as well as, or even better than this machi

[TheMightyDM]

@DavidMcMahon1 I was playing that and that's why I looked this plane up. If I had a couple thousand dollars (and a flying license) I'd love to have one of these.

[Lithonion]

139, 000 and they are already are so backed up if you paid for one today, you would get it in 2015. I don't have 139k but I just need to win the lotory...no prob! lol

[TheYozStudios]

@purplehayabusa damn, u rlly own one? i wana see a video, can u make one? plz

[EllipticBit]

Personally, i've never found the prop blur to inhibit vision at all. It's moving at over 2000rpm in flight, typical cruise is 2200-2400 RPM in the Cessna's I fly. I can pick up airplanes over 10 miles away through the prop disc. Pusher's in this case make a lot of sense though. It's a weight restriction thing.

This looks like a superb aircraft. If I had the money ...

BTW, does anyone know where they got the music for this, or is a custom job?

[LASadvgrrl]

OMG I so now want to get a pilots license and buy one of these...

[slafkec]

where are the hardpoints for external stores? a gun pod would suffice for start

[TheMightyDM]

Ah, right! I don't know why I wrote a couple thousand. I actually looked up the price of this thing before posting. I MEANT to say a couple HUNDRED thousand. The hundred just didn't make it onto the keyboard I guess.

[websuspect]

@seaplaneguy1 They can market it to pilots like john denver or Steve Wozniak.

[toose]

It's not suprising that the large percentage of their customers are non pilots. To a non-pilot the plane looks dam cool & to existing pilots, it looks dam cool too, but we understand there is more choice, & better weight based performance out there, & more bang for your buck I guess. I'd still have one though if it was given to me LOL.

[seaplaneguy]

More directly, the airplane I am designing has none of the ICON problems and most problems solved. The list is long of things needed to move about on oceans.

How to meet Fed and State parks, and be a good transportation device.
How to fish out of it? How to surf the wave? Get in and out front, back, sides? How to beach it without getting hammered by waves overnight? How to see directly down where you are landing. Regulators want no obstruction to landing view or you land on boats.

[casualtybeats]

if they can add hellfire missiles hydra rockets and a 30 mm cannon with explosive rounds im sold

[brandon]

I'm impressed on how cheap they're making this