First USMC test pilot to fly the CH-53K

Lt. Col. Jonathan Morel from VX-21 became the first U.S. Marine to fly the CH-53K on Dec. 18 at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation’s Development Flight Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Morel said the new rotor-craft “flew very close to the way the simulators and engineers predicted it would” and “Marines are going to love to fly this aircraft.”

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