Icon Aircraft, the US-based manufacturer of the A5 amphibious light-sport aircraft, has filed for bankruptcy protection in US court and is seeking a buyer as part of a broad restructuring. The ...
Icon Aircraft, which produces the Icon A5 light sport amphibious aircraft, has introduced a new app called SMART—Survey for Managing and Assessing Risks to Safety. The mobile app guides users through ...
The ICON A5 is an amphibious light-sport aircraft (LSA) that inspires recreational pilots, handling water landings with full (30-degree) flaps. It was first flown in 2008, and production began in ...
GILFORD — A new light sport aircraft took to the skies above Laconia on Monday and turned some heads along the way. A team from ICON Aircraft, headquartered in Vacaville, Calif., came to the Laconia ...
Dubbed the most thrilling and versatile light sport aircraft (LSA) in existence, the ICON A5 looks like a Lamborghini with wings. Even more impressive, it can land or take off almost anywhere and it’s ...
With this designation, ICON Aircraft is now one of only a few Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) manufacturers in the world to meet the certification standards of the FAA, meaning that ICON can now take ...
Chinese-owned Dornier Seawings has acquired the rights to a light amphibious aircraft that it plans to produce alongside the 12-passenger Seastar CD2 flying boat. Acquired from Germany’s Uniplanes, ...
How "Fast" is the Speed of Light? Light travels at a constant, finite speed of 186,000 mi/sec. A traveler, moving at the speed of light, would circum-navigate the equator approximately 7.5 times in one second. By comparison, a traveler in a jet aircraft, moving at a ground speed of 500 mph, would cross the continental U.S. once in 4 hours.