Re: NOTAR

From: Ed Rudnicki <erudnick_at_pica.army.mil>
Date: Wed, 1 May 96 10:31:25 EDT

>>BTW, NOTAR is Hughes/McDonnell-Douglas, not Bell. And no, I don't
>>have a Jane's; I just have an attic for a mind, full of all sorts of
>>useless stuff :)
>
>I haven't seen anything in Megakat City skies that correlates, but the one I saw
>at the Abbotsford International Airshow this year was very similar to a
>Cayuse (or Hughes 500 Defender), but sans tail rotor, and a damn sight quieter
>than any other helo I've come across.

Strictly speaking it's now McD-D, and not Hughes any more, since the
former swallowed up the latter. The OH-6 Cayuse is an H500, now
MD500, but the NOTAR is on the evolved MD530 airframe.

The Enforcer choppers are undoubtedly simplified for animation
purposes, a reasonable shortcut IMHO.




Ed

Received on Wed May 01 1996 - 11:32:19 PDT