Icon Aircraft, Inc.

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Strand, Steen

Steen Strand

Jon Karkow

Diego Miralles

Klaus Tritschler

Steve Moneypenny

Matthew Gionta

Kirk Hawkins

Byron Young

Randy Rodriguez

Michael Schumann

Krik Hawkins

Lisa Johansson

Randy Rodriquez

A bifurcated truck in a laterally-sliding board wheel assembly enables the 'freeboard' to seamlessly transition from 'carving'&#x2014;as associated with a traditional skateboard&#x2014;to new omnidirectional motions, in which the board can easy travel forward, backwards, sideways or in any other directional combination. The wheel assembly of this invention employs a bifurcated truck system having two independent suspension arms, both operating independently from one another and from the board's castering wheels. The wheel assemblies are mirrored at each longitudinal end of the board, resulting in the board's ability to carve, slide or skid&#x2014;and easily transition back and forth among each of these modes&#x2014;providing the rider a sense of stability and freedom commonly associated only with snowboarding.

Laterally-sliding board with bifurcated trucks

An aircraft landing gear self-orients so to align itself within a plane parallel to the plane defined by the aircraft's roll and yaw axis. A nose gear of a tricycle landing gear configuration includes the ability to not only caster 360 degrees but also self-orient itself to be aligned parallel with the plane defined by the aircraft's roll and yaw axis once removed from any interaction with the ground. A simple and efficient mechanical design provides the landing gear with a substantially constant centering torque that neither impedes nor impairs ground movement yet returns the nose gear to a proper alignment for retraction and stowage.

Self-orienting aircraft landing gear

Amphibious sport aircraft

Aircraft angle of attack indicator

Amphibious sport aircraft with wings stowed

A system for enhanced lateral stability of an amphibious aircraft includes a buoyancy system laterally displaced from opposite sides of the fuselage of the aircraft and wingtip system having a hydrodynamic planing surface associated with each wingtip. The hydrodynamic planing surface on each wingtip prevents the submersion of an associated buoyancy structure. By supplementing the lateral stability of the buoyancy structures using hydrodynamic planing surfaces, the combined lateral width of the fuselage and buoyancy structures can be reduced without detrimentally impacting operational performance. This reduced lateral width enables the amphibious aircraft to be configured for storage and transportation on a trailer or shipping container.

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Santa Monica, CA, United States of America

Steen Strand