Zefhir Is The First Helicopter In the World To Come With Parachute
Jeff Magnus, US Business Manager for Curti Zefhir, talked to ANN at Oshkosh about the new helicopter kit, and how it flies. “It is absolutely a delight to fly,” he says. “First of all, it is a two-place helicopter with a turbine engine, 251 hp, derated to 141 hp. When you start the engine, unlike a traditional helicopter that has a throttle on the collective, we have a knob on the panel and it starts out at idle, goes to 55%, then goes to run which is 90%, and the engine stays at 90%. The neat part about that whole deal is because we get 100 hp ex