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00:00A year ago Randy invited Division 4 I kind of really it's a lot. Airplanes being much more accessible to consumers who have dreamed about flying their entire life . I'm Kirk Hawkins CEO and founder of Ise aircraft and we're on the Hudson here in New York City by George Washington Bridge were flying and demonstrating the new ICON A5 aircraft the light sport aircraft category is a new entry level category that's effectively a small lightweight aircraft that two people can fly and learn to fly relatively quickly and easily we did everything be as easy and as safe as we can possibly make it loaded right now it's about two hundred fifty thousand all the options a lot of work has been put on the airplane so that it both flies well and looks extremely well. Very easy to operate. Easy to get an hour out of it. Very simple cockpit section we call this in the aviation section navigation communication what we call configuration we change like the landing gear flaps. What we've done is put a lot of our in development what we believe is the safest light airplanes ever and some of the features we've done has a built in parachute system with the airbag for a car. It has an angle attached gauge and that gives you a direct indication of how the wing is doing. So a new pilot trial could actually tell if the wing is performing well or not. Wings the wings are very unique. This is the first airplane that's met the FAA standard for spin resistance. What they have effectively means is that the airplane is very forgiving if a pilot makes a mistake and gets too slow stall fall And lose control. This airplane is designed that if you do that it actually forgives you for it. It continues to fly the wings their plane full their plane can go on a trailer at that point and you can trailer down the road parking at your house. Keeping the airport where like. Notice the it is in the back we get that propeller away from the humans and in the back. So from a safety standpoint it's backlit high where the occupants interface of the airplane . The idea really saves the consumer ise products. You will not have an opportunity in a major metropolitan area to go look at an airplane that you could fly and then you can buy you can be trained on and then to pick it out and learn to fly .

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