fly_tornado Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 just announced at #osh14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Hmmm, $189 000. To expensive for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_richo Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 whatever floats ya boat.. ha ha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVOCET Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Nice . It gets me excited to see what's available in the way of materials and light weight systems that can be utilised to make ; any thing you can dream up ! Mike . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kaz3g Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 It seems that all there is right now is a lot of design work in a computer? Very futuristic and rather expensive with a cruise of somewhere under 100 knots. Anyone pick up what the engine is? I'd call it a flying boat, FT, rather than a seaplane. I always regarded seaplanes as being on floats and flying boats as having a floating hull, but... Kaz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camel Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Nice . It gets me excited to see what's available in the way of materials and light weight systems that can be utilised to make ; any thing you can dream up !Mike . Mike, do you have ideas of your Avocet as a ampibian ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultralights Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 $160K for a kit, considering what it can do, its not bad! engine is a turbo rotax, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVOCET Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Mike, do you have ideas of your Avocet as a ampibian ? I've been playing with a plasticine model for a while . I posted some photos of 3 amphib concepts a while ago . The incident page in the raa mag has kindly used one of them in the heading , top right corner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultralights Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 It's no icon a5 but could you use the Icon A5 as a floating camper/small boat with accomdation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDQDI Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 It looks impressive I'd say maybe the best casting deck on a amphib that I have seen. 180k seems reasonable for what it can do, have you priced any of the other fancy amphibs lately? (Doesn't mean I will get one but doesn't hurt to dream.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanR Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I am in the middle of doing my floating hull endorsement this week - such fun - may have to start looking at whats available. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Judd Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 but could you use the Icon A5 as a floating camper/small boat with accomdation? I'll be waiting until they've actually built one and flown it. With all those "features" it will undoubtedly be heavy and slow. Interesting concept, but I suspect that it will not perform well as either a boat or an airplane, by the time you load it with guns and fishing gear and hammock and food and mooring lines and anchor and docking thrusters and house batteries and solar panels and ... well, you get the picture. And with all that movable/removable stuff it better have a wide CG range for safety. Anyone can design something like this with a computer, and that's all they have achieved so far. Would you invest $100,000 in their pipe dream? If not you'll be waiting until 2017, and that's just for a kit of parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Judd Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Well yeah, you can fix anything by throwing enough power at it, but that isn't exactly efficient. Still, I'm sure it will match some minor part of the US public's idea of a "sports plane". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightyknots Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 The concept is pretty interesting. I suppose we'll just have to wait 18 months and see how this turns out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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