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Old 9th Nov 2017, 00:25
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Ebbie 2003
 
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Another Icon A5 death, Roy Halladay the retired Canadian baseball player.

Plane's CofA issued Monday, crashed and dead pilot Tuesday.

There is video, looks like a swoopy descending turn, down to a few feet, accelerated stall - yup, just like the Icon idiots promote in their publicity videos.

It's a flying jetski, yeah right.

This together with the 30%+ price increase announced last week should just about kill them off - it was only in 2013 that is was being described as the $200,000 wonder, now all but $400,000.

They should stop with the swoopy, low level and formation videos and promote the fly at 1,000ft unless you are taking off or landing - but the one doesn't get the impression of speed. The you can't spin it doesn't mean you can't stall it, seems Roy Halladay found that out; he was an experienced 700hour pilot and had been doing promotional videos for Icon only last month.
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