The world’s first commercially available powered minimum aircraft, the 
<p>Wheeler Scout, was designed and built by a Sydney hang glider builder, Ron 
Wheeler, who built around 200 of these aircraft. Neville White bought a Scout in 1977. After the rudder broke on the 
first flight, followed by a broken propeller shaft and then a broken chain which 
resulted in a broken propeller, Neville decided he would design his own aircraft to improve reliability and so the CAB Wasp was born. The first CAB 
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Wasp was flown on 10 September 1978. - Day 2 Watts Bridge Airfield Festival of Flight 'The Vintage Experience' 2010. File: Cab_Wasp_Ultralight_B-W_YWSG_20100829_3532
Robert Frola
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