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CH-53K Completes Critical Tests With Maximum Payload Flight

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CH-53K Completes Critical Tests With Maximum Payload Flight
The Sikorsky CH-53K helicopter achieves a 36,000-pound lift for the first time at Sikorsky Development Flight Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb. 10, 2018. Image courtesy Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company. (PRNewsfoto/Lockheed Martin)

Sikorsky has completed the last of its its critical flight expansion activities for its CH-53K ahead of its first delivery of the aircraft to the Marine Corps later in 2018, with a successful external lift test to carry a maximum weight payload, the company said Wednesday.The Lockheed Martin [LMT] owned aircraft company flew its CH-53K King Stallion with a 36,000-pound payload on a single center point cargo hook, while maintaining satisfactory handling capabilities and structural margins."The successful completion of these…

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