New-type military transport helicopter makes successful maiden flight

In mid-February, the reporters learned from an army aviation regiment of the Nanjing Military Area Command (MAC) of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) that China’s first batch of new-type military transport helicopters had made their first flight successfully after they entered service.

According to Shan Yifu, deputy commander of the regiment, the regiment is the first troop unit to be organically equipped with the new-type transport helicopters. They will try highly-difficult subjects later on.

According to the Army Aviation Department of the General Staff Headquarters (GSH) of the PLA, the new-type helicopter is a medium-size transport helicopter with great improvements in controlling, mobility, flight distance and flight speed comparing with the existing similar transport helicopters.

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