PAKISTAN: THE CHINOOK FACTOR-2 BY IKRAM SEHGAL.

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: January 17, 2006 | Copyright information

Purchase and maintenance of a helicopter-heavy aviation fleet is certainly an expensive proposition. Brig (Retd) Sher Khan, who disagrees with me and says that this expense is not really required, belongs to a select group of army aviation engineers with good flying experience, most of it test-flying the fixed wing tail-wheel two-seater L-19 (or 0-1 in Army nomenclature). He has also commanded an aviation base repair workshop. In the 1960s and 1970s the sturdy L-19s formed the core of the Army Aviation fleet, doing duties of command and control, reconnaissance, observation, ...

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