First chopper flight with Turkish engine

For the first time, a Turkish Gökbey chopper from TAI (Turkish Aerospace Industries) with 2 national TEI engines (Tusaş Engine Industries) of kind TS1400 blew up. "This is an crucial milestone for the Turkish defence industry. Our first home chopper engine on test flight on our first native Gökbey helicopter. Congratulations to our engineers" – İsmail Demir, head of Defence manufacture Bureau, wrote on social media.