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Originally Posted by HHI944
Local PD has a 530E and a 520N, friggin unnatural abomination that it is
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Many, many years ago at the Reno Air Races, they had a demo with the NOTAR. They claimed the pilot was one of only five or so that had some type of "Unlimited" rating in helicopters. I give him credit because in front of thousands, he did several barnstormers loops in it and many other maneuvers that weren't possible in a helicopters, so I thought . Very unusual to see a helicopter do loops. Like previously mentioned, in hot high DA, the effectiveness of its tail authority is reduced.
AZHP for a little bit had the largest flying fleet of them. In talking with the crews, they said that the actual aircraft shipped from the factory brand new with zero hours and they discovered the fuselage was out of jig. Needless to say they have diversified their fleet so a fleet related issue doesn't take them out of service.
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