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The RotorWay A600 Talon is an American
helicopter
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, designed and produced by RotorWay International of Chandler, Arizona
Chandler is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and a suburb in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). It is bordered to the north and west by Tempe, to the north by Mesa, to the west by Phoenix, to the ...
. 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 the RotorWay Exec 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 powerplant. The A600 features a single main rotor, a two-seats inside-by-side configuration
Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which a team of machines, animals or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction.
The original use of the term in English was in ''tandem harness'', which is used for two ...
enclosed cockpit with a windshield, skid-type landing gear
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and a turbocharged four-stroke, 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 been registered in the United States with theFederal 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 *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 a ...
*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 developm ...
References
External links
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