Video: iCub - An Airplane Wrapped Around an iPad (Plus an iPhone)

Video: iCub – An Airplane Wrapped Around an iPad (Plus an iPhone)

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Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The iCub is a Light Sport Aircraft, a modern Cub clone, that integrates Apple's iPad and iPhone for its cockpit functions.
An iPad serves as the aircraft's main navigation device and also tracks data from its Rotax 912 engine.
The article features a video tour of the iCub, presented by Bill Canino at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo.

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If there aren’t enough iWidgets in your life, here’s one more: the iCub. It’s basically a Cub clone LSA built around the network and display capabilities of an iPad and an iPhone. The iPad serves as the airplane’s main navigation device, plus it also receives and tracks data from the Rotax 912 engine. At the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, AVweb talked with the company’s Bill Canino, and this brief video offers a tour of the airplane.

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