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Flying a sports activities automobile with wings

Story highlights The intuitive amphibious ICON A5 seems like a sports activities automobile It does require a sports activities pilot license to fly it In the case of piloting a aircraft, I've zero expertise. In truth, I’ve by no means even thought-about making an attempt it. Nonetheless, as we swoop over Florida’s Tampa Bay on a stunning November morning, I enthusiastically take over the controls of the ICON A5, a two-seater amphibious aircraft that appears like a sports activities automobile, maneuvers like a jet ski and is so intuitive, the corporate says that even a novice can study to fly it in lower than 30 hours. At 23 toes lengthy and weighing in a 1,510 kilos, it’s often known as a sea light-sport plane. Designed that can assist you deal with the liberty of flying with out worrying if the aircraft will react unpredictably, there’s nothing else fairly prefer it in the marketplace. Now that I’m in management, my complete physique tenses for a great 5 minutes. Am I actually able to pilot this shiny new machine all on my own? I’m not totally positive. Nevertheless, I take consolation in the truth that the A5 was constructed particularly for folks like me, and it was designed to drive like a automobile. Plus, the truth that Icon’s CEO and founder, Kirk Hawkins, is subsequent to me within the cockpit doesn’t damage both. He can take over the controls at any time. Thus far, so good. We glide easily via the air at about 1,000 toes, and I’m comfy sufficient to absorb the sights. Pretty Fort De Soto Park doesn’t disappoint. Private airplane revolution Squiggles of dreamy white dunes are surrounded by water that appears prefer it needs to be within the Caribbean. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, with its sequence of long-spanning cables, is equally spectacular. The adrenaline remains to be racing. And as most surreal experiences go, it simply retains getting higher. For starters, there’s one other ICON A5 to my left, which is thrilling in itself. We're flying in formation, and my job is to imitate its actions. You’d suppose this might be intimidating, nevertheless it’s not. It’s simply plain enjoyable. That’s music to Hawkins’ ears. He’s the brains behind this newfangled aircraft, an thought 10 years within the making. As a former Air Power F-16 pilot and a Stanford Enterprise College grad, he has targeted most of his grownup life on making sport flying accessible to the lots. “The thought for us was to create an airplane the place the typical human being can exit and expertise the world with out having the burden of turning into knowledgeable pilot,” he says. So it is sensible that the dashboard seems like what you see in your automobile. There are only some gauges that I don’t acknowledge. “It’s the Apple strategy to issues,” he says. “You humanize it, and make it intuitive and simple and funky.” He’s so assured folks will wish to fly (and purchase) his planes that he simply opened a flight-training facility at Peter O. Knight Airport. Positioned on Davis Island, 5 minutes from downtown Tampa, it’s a spot the place each magnificence and sailboats abound. The corporate’s different coaching middle is in Vacaville, California, the place ICON is headquartered.

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By 9 a.m., it’s time for a quick water-landing pitstop. Hawkins takes over the controls. I’ve been too busy studying to fly in formation (not one thing non-pilots get to strive fairly often) and interviewing Hawkins to even take into consideration studying to do a water touchdown myself. It’s one thing Hawkins tells me most individuals can grasp in about half-hour. A couple of negative-Gs and 360-degree turns later and it turns into a enjoyable roller-coaster experience within the sky. Plus, it’s an open-air flight, so I sometimes flop my arms out. Simply because I can. At just a few hundred toes above the water, it’s simple to identify a boater waving at us, a flock of pelicans and even stingrays. “We’re gonna pull over right here and cease and get out for a second,” he says. Absolutely he’s kidding, proper? However after touchdown the aircraft on the water, he takes off his seatbelt, and I notice he’s not. Seconds later, he pops the roof and we climb onto the wings, which might simply double as diving boards. Immediately, this feels much less like a aircraft outing and extra like I’m on a ship sunbathing. Every little thing is drenched in a mesmerizing golden hue. I can think about picnicking on the seaside close by. Or taking the aircraft someplace for a distant weekend tenting journey. As a result of the aircraft has a spread of about 430 miles on a full tank, it’s made for brief getaways. “This complete factor is about inspiring folks,” he explains. “When you study to fly, you'll by no means be the identical. You'll have a look at the sky completely different, you'll have a look at the planet completely different.” “The first motor abilities for working a aircraft are fairly simple,” Hawkins tells me. “We have now folks touchdown by themselves with an teacher on their very first day, inside half-hour.” That mentioned, they’ve painstakingly taken the time to design it for security. The aim of the spin-resistant airframe characteristic is that if the pilot makes errors, the airplane doesn’t lose management. As a backup, there’s an entire airplane parachute. “The spin resistance characteristic is a giant deal because it’s the primary airplane that the FAA has deemed spin-resistant,” says Chris Dupin, a flight teacher and US Air Power officer. “A big variety of common aviation fatalities are from lack of management accidents that contain an unrecovered spin on the bottom to closing flip.” Plus, there’s the angle of assault indicator, one thing you don’t usually see in a lightweight plane. It reveals you the place the wing is comfortable (within the inexperienced) or the place it might stall (within the purple). The pilot’s job is to maintain the wing inside the inexperienced or yellow part of the gauge. That is a part of what makes water takeoffs and landings really easy to study. “Kirk Hawkins has an especially inventive and revolutionary thought for pilot coaching that's extra intuitive; educating the texture of flight first and the principals and construction later, not not like how folks study to drive,” says Christine Negroni, veteran aviation journalist and creator of “The Crash Detectives.” “The world is dealing with a pilot scarcity, so the concept of educating in a different way, in order that completely different studying kinds might be accommodated might very properly develop the pool of pilot candidates.” On that observe, about 40% of the oldsters who’ve put down deposits for the ICON A5 usually are not pilots, which suggests this aircraft is drawing aviation newbies. After an hour and a half of flying time, Hawkins lands us on the airport runway, a maneuver that you may sort out after you’ve mastered a number of water landings. It’s a bit trickier because it requires extra precision and data about crosswinds. At this level, if I owned this aircraft, I’d hook it as much as a trailer, fold the wings up, drive it residence, and park it within the storage. If you would like your individual ICON A5, get in line. Greater than 1,800 clients have put deposits down. For individuals who aren’t able to shell out $207,000 to purchase one, there’s the choice of stopping by ICON’s coaching facility in Tampa, or the ability in Vacaville, California, to fly for the day. The Sport Flying Introduction class is 1.5 hours for $595. To snag your Sport Pilot License, you'll need to spend 20-plus hours and pricing varies. Read the full article

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#seoul Halloween crush

Ausark  —  A fresh graduate in her first full-time job; a teenager who helped raise her siblings after their father’s death; a foreign exchange student excited for his first trip to Asia. In the seven days since 156 people were killed in a Halloween crush in the South Korean capital, the names and stories of those who died have emerged, along with details of missed warnings and desperate calls for help. According to police emergency call logs, multiple calls were made as early as four hours before the tragedy unfolded, as the crowd in Seoul’s buzzy nightlife district Itaewon became so packed that partygoers were unable to move or breathe. Videos taken over the course of that night show revelers realizing, at first slowly then in a rush of panic, that what was supposed to be a fun night out was spiraling dangerously out of control. Police ultimately sent four police dispatches to the site that evening, but too few and too late to prevent the disaster. Families are mourning the loss of their loved ones, with most victims in their teens and 20s. Amid the grief, anger has grown with demands for answers as to how things could have gone so terribly wrong. Here’s a look back at how the disaster unfolded – and the early danger signs that went unheeded. Halloween in Itaewon isn’t a single event held by an organizer – rather, it’s a popular place for young people, often dressed in elaborate costumes, to go bar hopping and clubbing. From the Itaewon subway station, the main nightlife strip can be accessed via a sloping alleyway less than 4 meters wide (13 feet), that runs between the brick wall of the Hamilton Hotel and some stores. On weekends, the alley becomes a busy thoroughfare for people coming and going, giving it a convivial atmosphere where friends meet up and party. By 4 p.m. on October 29, crowds had become “significantly big,” said Park Chang-ki, a parking attendant who worked across the road from the alley where most of the crush took place. By 5 p.m., the alley was so packed it was completely blocked off, according to the owner of a restaurant facing the alley. At 6:34 p.m., police received an emergency call – the first of 11 increasingly urgent calls that first pleaded for crowd control, then for rescuers. “That alley doesn’t look safe … It feels like (people) can be crushed to death,” the caller said. “I barely escaped, I think you need to control this, there are simply too many people.” “Police will come out and check that out,” the officer responded. By 7 p.m., people in the alley were spilling out onto the adjacent main road, said Park, the parking attendant. According to police logs, the second emergency call came just after 8 p.m., with the caller saying people were being pushed, falling and getting hurt. “It’s chaotic … I think it needs to be controlled somehow,” the caller said. Similar warnings, growing more dire, soon followed. Just after 8:30 p.m., a caller warned police the situation was “really serious.” Twenty minutes later, another caller said it felt like a “madhouse.” “It’s not a joke. It’s not a prank call,” they said, adding: “I beg you.” Things rapidly escalated between 8 p.m. to 9 p.m, with footage showing the Itaewon streets – lined with clubs and bars blasting music – packed with revelers standing shoulder to shoulder, some pushing forward in a slow-moving wave. Crowds aren’t unusual for Seoul, or for the Itaewon area, which is often full of partygoers on weekends. Some experts have said this may have contributed to the disaster, with residents unaware of the danger because they were used to being in tightly packed crowds. In a selfie video taken at 8:41 p.m., 22-year-old French exchange student Anne-Lou Chevalier and her friends laugh about the number of people as they wait in the middle of an unmoving crowd. “At the beginning we thought it was funny,” said Chevalier. “We heard Halloween in Itaewon was amazing.”

But unease soon set in. In a video taken just minutes later, the group’s laughter has taken on a nervous edge as one girl says, “Just try not to fall.” Another responds, “I’m scared.” Shortly after, Chevalier says, they began to feel crushed; she passed out and was evacuated, with a photo taken at 8:58 p.m. that shows her being lifted away from the crowd by two men. By 9 p.m., an emergency caller urged police to “make an emergency dispatch now,” saying a “big accident could occur at any moment.” Several other callers around this time warned that people were being trampled on, describing the situation as “horrible.” One caller, at 9:02 p.m., put it more bluntly: “Somebody is going to die.” By 9:30 p.m., the streets were crammed full; some people reported not even being able to exit the nearby subway station, with new partygoers still arriving in the area. By now, the danger was apparent. Ian Chang, a 21-year-old university student from Florida, arrived in Itaewon around 9:40 p.m., planning to meet his friend Steven Blesi, another American exchange student – but the crowds were so severe he messaged Blesi at 10:17 p.m., urging him to avoid the area. It’s not clear if his warning ever reached Blesi – one of the two American victims who died that night, the other being 20-year-old Anne Gieske from Kentucky. Sometime before 10 p.m., Emily Farmer, a 27-year-old English teacher in Seoul, escaped into a bar after being “overwhelmed” by the crowds. Shortly after, she said, rumors began spreading that somebody had died and patrons were not allowed to leave. By 10:21 p.m., some began taking desperate measures; a photo shows a man scaling a wall to escape, cheered on by bystanders unaware of what was happening.

Minutes later, police began receiving reports of people being “buried” in the crowd. “At 10:23 p.m. we received more than five reports that people fell, and they could either get hurt or die,” a first responder told Ausark, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Authorities rushed to the scene, where they saw up to “10 rows of faces – we couldn’t even see their legs,” said the first responder. They said workers pulled out the people in the bottom row first – but “when we laid them (on the ground), most of them were unconscious.” The sheer volume of people also made it difficult for police to reach those who needed help. Video posted to social media showed people performing compressions on other partygoers lying on the ground as they waited for medical attention. Sophia Akhiyat, an American doctor in Itaewon that night, was whisked to a side street after telling an officer she could possibly help. “I was completely overwhelmed but I started CPR on the first body I saw,” she said. “It was so chaotic because there were so many victims on the floor, along with foot traffic and partygoers and music blasting from surrounding restaurants and clubs that had no idea what was going on.” Adding to the confusion was the fact that most people were in costume that night – meaning some mistook police officers for fellow partygoers. One 20-year-old eyewitness, who requested anonymity because she did not feel comfortable having her name published, said when an officer tried to direct the crowds, she heard someone ask: “Is he a real policeman?” By 11:46 p.m., South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency had reported that dozens of people were receiving medical assistance after suffering from “cardiac arrest,” citing fire authorities. Photos show the road full of police cars, with officers cordoning off the area. At 11:55 p.m., the Seoul metropolitan government sent an emergency alert to residents in the Itaewon area, requesting vehicles to turn away due to “an emergency accident near Hamilton Hotel.” “Citizens, please return home as soon as possible,” it read – which would be repeated in several more alerts in the following hours. This was more than five hours after the first emergency call had come in, with reports of the disaster beginning to circulate widely on social media. Around 12:14 a.m., the country’s National Police Agency made its first report to agency chief Yoon Hee-keun, according to Yonhap. President Yoon Suk Yeol dispatched a disaster medical assistance team to Itaewon, ordering hospitals to prepare emergency beds. By 12:30 a.m., the scale of the tragedy was becoming clear, with photos showing a line of blue body bags on the street, as first responders rushed the wounded onto stretchers and into ambulances. Just after 1 a.m., authorities released the first death toll of 59 killed as they worked frantically to transfer injured people to nearby hospitals, and bodies to multiple mortuaries. Read the full article

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Cat and dog meat: Hong Kong shop raided, 70 years after trade was banned

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Cat and dog meat: Hong Kong shop raided, 70 years after trade was banned

CNN — Authorities in Hong Kong have raided a shop suspected of selling dog and cat meat as food – more than 70 years after the trade was outlawed. Officers seized “suspected samples of dog or cat flesh” at a shop in the Yau Ma Tei district during a “joint blitz operation” by the city’s […]

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