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When Vern Raburn talks, people listen. Recently, the visionary behind the Eclipse VLJ was talking about a new light-sport amphibian, the ICON A5. Raburn is an adviser for startup ICON Aircraft, which aspires to create a sport aircraft that will "do for recreational flying what personal watercraft did for boating."

Think Jet Ski, car and motorcycle-with wings. Designed by Kirk Hawkins, an engineer and former F-16 jockey, the A5 would make James Bond envious. The sleek, easily trailered (with folding electric wings) amphib should prove no lightweight in the sky either. The engineering and development team comes from Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites. The sexy, carbonfiber, composite ...

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