Sikorsky swims ashore

1995-05-31T00:00:00

A SIKORSKY S-61N helicopter has probably beaten the water-taxiing record for a non-float-equipped aircraft by travelling some 30km (16nm) to land on an isolated part of the Namibian coast in southern Africa.

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