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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.
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The RotorWay Scorpion Too at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The Scorpion Too, or Scorpion II, was the first two-seater manufactured by RotorWay. It took about 2,000 hours to complete. Gross weight: 1,125 lb (510 kg) Useful load: 435 lb (197 kg) Range: 125 miles (201 km) Cruise speed: 75 mph (121 km/h) Rate of climb: 1,000 ft/min at sea level
RotorWay, the company that manufactured the aircraft, bills itself as the “largest kit helicopter company in the world” having sold some 5,000 kits from 1972 to 1984.
Buford John Schramm (14 October 1938 – 28 April 2004), better-known as B.J. Schramm, was a businessman and developer of light personal helicopters.He was killed in the crash of a single-seat helicopter of his own design near Montour, about six miles southwest of Horseshoe Bend, Idaho.
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.
The RotorWay A600 Talon is an American helicopter, designed and produced by RotorWay International of Chandler, Arizona. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction. [1] By April 2017 the company seemed to have dropped the name Talon, referring to the aircraft just as the A600. [2]
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