Sun, Mar 29, 2009
Plane Making A Dent In The Sport Plane Market
Down Under
Numerous aircraft designers have paid homage to the classic
Piper Cub, a design whose popularity never seems to wane. A shining
example is the Savage Cub.. which is making a respectable name for
itself, on its own merits.
Despite its resemblance to its namesake, the Savage Cub has a
few differences, too. Most notable is its Rotax engine, available
in 80 hp and 100 hp sizes. The Savage Cub is also available as a
ready-to-fly factory-built aircraft, or in do-it-yourself kit
form.
At this year's Australian International Airshow at Victoria's
Avalon airport, local Savage Cub dealers Bruce and Helen Vickers
were quite pleasantly surprised when their Savage Cub took top
honors for Best Factory Built Recreational Aircraft.
"A superb effort, when you consider the number of aircraft in
attendance at the show, which is considered the Australian
equivalent of Oshkosh," X-Air Australia spokesman Michael Coates
said.
A brief yet informative history of the Savage Cub found at its
website sums up the origins of the airplane. "The idea was to
create an aircraft with good STOL performance, classic design and
good handling that would be economic and easy to both build and
repair.
"A weakness for one of the legends of 20th century aviation --
the Piper Cub -- drove the designer of the Savage and his team,
aeronautical engineers Bonaldo, Franchini and Vizzini (the latter
had worked at Aeritalia, and spent a long period at Boeing in
Seattle before moving on to Aermacchi) to build several prototypes
that would become the basis for the Savage Cub we know today."
The Savage Cub went into production in Italy between 1997 and
1998. In 1999, production moved to the Czech Republic, and it is
carried out by Zlin Aviation.
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