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The RotorWay A600 Talon is an American
helicopter
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, designed and produced by RotorWay International
The RotorWay Helicopter Manufacturing Company, formerly called RotorWay International, was a manufacturer of kit helicopters located in Chandler, Arizona, United States. The company was founded by B.J. Schramm in 1961 as RotorWay Aircraft. R ...
of Chandler, Arizona
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. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 194. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
By April 2017 the company seemed to have dropped the name ''Talon'', referring to the aircraft just as the ''A600''.
Design and development
The A600 Talon is a development of theRotorWay Exec
The RotorWay Exec is a family of American two-bladed, skid-equipped, two-seat kit helicopters, manufactured by RotorWay International of Chandler, Arizona and supplied in kit form for amateur-construction.
Design and development
The Exec 16 ...
and externally resembles the earlier design. The A600 incorporates a different structure, a shaft-driven tail rotor, taller and longer landing skids and a new in-house developed turbocharged
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powerplant.
The A600 features a single main rotor, a two-seats in side-by-side configuration
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enclosed cockpit with a windshield, skid-type landing gear
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and a turbocharged four-stroke
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, RotorWay RI 600S engine that drives the diameter two-bladed rotor and conventional diameter two-bladed tail rotor. The aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload is .
The aircraft is capable of an in ground effect hover at and an out of ground effect hover at
Operational history
By February 2013 seven examples had beenregistered
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in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration
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, one with the Civil Aviation Authority in the United Kingdom
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and one with Transport Canada
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.
Specifications
See also
*DF Helicopters DF334
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*Dynali H2S
The Dynali H2S is a Belgian helicopter, designed by Jacky Tonet and produced by Dynali of the Thines district of Nivelles. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur constructionBayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et ...
*Heli-Sport CH-7
The Cicaré CH-7 and Heli-Sport CH7 are a series of ultralight, kit-built helicopters based on a single-seat Argentinian design from the late 1980s. It was later developed into a tandem two-seater, and remains in production.
Design and devel ...
References
External links
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