MD Helicopters MD 600N Landing

The MD 600N is an eight-place, light, single-turbine engine helicopter that provides high performance and increased capacity to give the customer greater versatility. All with dramatically low operating costs. It flies faster, hovers higher, and provides the agility and exceptional handling for which the MD 500 series is known.
With its advanced NOTAR (No Tail Rotor) anti-torque system, the MD 600N is a member of an exclusive class of the safest, quietest helicopters in the world.

The NOTAR (No Tail Rotor) system consists of an enclosed fan driven by the main transmission, a circulation control tail boom, vertical stabilizers and a direct-jet thruster at the and of the tail boom. Low pressure air is forced through two slots on the right side of the tail boom, causes the main rotor downwash to "hug" the contour of the boom, creating lateral lift (Coanda effect) that counteracts main rotor torque. Yaw or directional control is given by the direct-jet thruster and the vertical stabilizers.
With this system a coventional tail rotor becomes superfluous. The MD600N, the MD520N and the MD902 Explorer are provided with this system.

This Md 600 (RN-059), registration B-2118, was build in 2000 and operated by Guangdong General Aviation Company in China until it was purchased 2007 by FLY 4 LESS from Budapest in Hungary (reg. HA-FLY). Last operator was Sky Heli GbR in Germany (reg. D-HHWR) before it crashed December 28 2010 near Jena, Germany, after an engine failure caused by snow ingestion douring roof snow removal operations.

Sources: http://www.cfso.org/ http://www.mdhelicopters.com/
http://www.aeroboek.nl/

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• NOTAR
• Helicopter
• MD600
• Landing

[lst1195]

I just noticed the writting on the tailboom, where was this shot?

[MrDrumpy]

This Md 600, registration B-2118, was build in 2000 and operated by Guangdong General Aviation Company in China until it was purchased 2007 by FLY 4 LESS from Budapest in Hungary (reg. HA-FLY). Now it flies for Sky Heli GbR in Germany. The new registrtion is D-HHWR.

[oregonninetwentynine]

@ReflectedImpedance i know right... ur supposed to wait for the pilots signal...

[ReflectedImpedance]

What an idiot the guy in the white shirt is. The collective isn't even on the bottom, the weight of the helicopter isn't even right on the skids, and he goes walking under the rotor disc. All it would have needed is a gust of wind from the front, and the pilot to have given it a bit forward cyclic to compensate, and the guy in the white shirt wouldn't have had a head any more. Nice helicopter though.

[tubeparker23]

If youv'e ever flown in a helicopter, it is a way different expierence than any fixed wing aircraft. I took a tour of Pigeon Forge in a Bell Jetranger. It was awesome. Wish I could do it again. I meant "oversized" not "overside" in my comment reply.

[tubeparker23]

I was wondering that myself. Ahhh....the advancements in helo technology. Beautiful looking bird. The overside tail boom gives it an odd, but cool look.

[SheepJumpFish]

Read the video information on the side as 'therealdeal989' who I think was responding to you has not given a totally correct description, quite flawed

[therealdeal989]

It uses high air pressures sent thru the LARGE tail section. Notice it is much larger than helis w/ tail rotor, The air escaped through small vents on either side of tail.

[Boeing757luvr]

how does this heli work w/o a tail rotor?

[kblackav8or]

Look up aircraft registration numbers on Wikipedia. It explains it all pretty well. Each country has one or 2 letters and then a numbering scheme.

[lst1195]

Cool! I didn't know that!

[kblackav8or]

The first digit/letter in the tail number will tell you the nationality.