Personal Plane flies, folds, tows, swims, and beats SUVs on mileage - ICON A5 amphibious sportsplane completes first test flight
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Bunny Says.. Why the hell buy a new car when you can buy this for $140,000.
A compact, two-seat plane with folding wings that can be pulled behind a car on a trailer will premiere at an air show in Wisconsin next week in a development that heralds a new genre of flying machines designed to bring the power-boating experience to the sky. Developed by two Stanford business school graduates, Kirk Hawkins and Steen Strand, the ICON A5 is the latest and arguably coolest plane to take to the skies under a new classification that the Federal Aviation Administration calls light-sport aircraft.
Ranging from $60,000 for a build-it-yourself kit, to $140,000 for the innovative ICON A5, these two-seat planes let anyone with a valid state driver’s license and 20 hours of flying instruction make short flights for travel or pleasure.
What the hell a DIY model plane!!!
Source: World Culture Pictorial