How do I position the icon to the right of the heading?

hop of those help? I want to icon and the headings in the same line like this: , I think you want to float the icon:

.icon-small i {
    float: left;
    margin-right: 10px;
    /* ... */
}

.icon-small + p {
    clear: left;
    /* ... */
}

this will help Your question is a little bit misleading. Your real issue is happening inside heading, thai is not a flex element.
You can just add a margin-left of the same size of the image to this element:

.heading {
  margin: 0px 30px;
  text-align: center;
  position: relative;
}

.fa {
  position: absolute;
  right: -30px;
  top: 30px;
}

.wrapper {
  border: 1px solid red;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
}
.image {
  height: 100px;
  width: 100px;
  background-color: blue;
  border-radius: 65px;
}
.title {
  font-size: 50px;
}
.description {
  padding: 15px;
}

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I hope this helps . Hello bellow is the snippet of the offending code. Within the JSON file is a value.track which is setting a map marker icon using marker rotation. Problem is that the icon rotation stays the same as what is was first told. I.E when first loaded the heading is 360 then the aircraft turns to 180 it will not rotate the Icon to match the heading unless I refresh the page. I would guess this could be fixed with a "var" some where but not sure where. My apologies if this is not very clear I am very new to Java Script. In other words the marker position update but not the marker rotation! , Update the icon for the marker when you update its position:

if (markers[value.hex]) {
  markers[value.hex].setPosition(myLatlng);
  markers[value.hex].setIcon(getIconForPlane(value));
  infoWindows[value.hex].setContent(text(value));
} else {
  // create new
  markers[value.hex] = new google.maps.Marker({
    position: myLatlng,
    icon: getIconForPlane(value),
    map: map,
    title: "Callsign: " + value.flight + ", Altitude: " + value.altitude
  });
  infoWindows[value.hex] = createInfoWindow(value, markers[value.hex],map);
}

like below fixes the issue I have found the answer. I need to use initialCamera props in MapView component instead of using initialRegion. Then I use animateCamera method to change the map coordinate and heading.