Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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Sweden’s Savback Helicopters is bringing the Italian-built, two-seat, turbine-powered Zefhir helicopter to the Private Flyer luxury brand show at UK’s Wycombe Air Park May 13 to 14. Savback is an established helicopter dealer with offices in the UK&nbsp;and has sold more than 900 helicopters worldwide since 1990.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

 


Zefhir was developed by Curti Aerospace&nbsp;to meet EASA CS-27 standards. It features a carbon-fiber airframe, glass cockpit, emergency ballistic parachute above the main rotor, composite rotor blades, and a 141 continuous shp turboshaft engine with fadec.&nbsp;The project was granted regional and European funding when launched in collaboration with PBS Velká Bíteš in 2013 and the helicopter first flew&nbsp;in 2017.

 


“The level of&nbsp;luxury and safety&nbsp;seen in this class of helicopter is a step above every other product for the private owner/pilot in the market to date,” said Stephen Mitchell, Savback’s head of sales for the UK and Ireland.&nbsp;

 


Zefhir has a hover ceiling of 13,100 feet, an mtow of 1,322 pounds, and a maximum range of 344 nm with a 10-minute reserve when equipped with the larger of two fuel tank options.

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

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Savback Helicopters will display the turbine-powered, two-seat Curti Zefhir at Wycombe Air Park during this year's Private Flyer luxury brand show.

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