Motorcycle-rider to Conquer Mount EverestChen Jianguo, a local citizen in Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province in east China, will ride a motorcycle to climb up Mount Everest in southwest China.He left Nanjing Monday for Tibet and will arrive at the mountain on September 14. Chen is confident that he can create a new record of climbing up to 6,800 meters. Chen practiced by riding up the mountain at the height of 5,600 meters in April. Chen Jianguo began his vehicle-training career when he was 14 years old and has covered a distance of more than 100,000 km. so far. Last year, he rode across the Taklimakan desert in southwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, known as the "Sea of Death", which earned him a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Homemade Helicopter to Be Used in Civil Aviation China's homemade helicopters will be used for the first time in civil aviation after it went through a high-standard airworthiness flight test recently. The test, called "flying on the verge of death", requires the aircraft to undergo high-risk flight trials. Experts say that the aircraft created a breakthrough in China's airworthiness flight test. The helicopter has created several records during the trial flight, with flight duration of five hours at normal temperature, a two-hour flight at 38 degrees Celsius below zero and a temperature difference between 6 degrees Centigrade and 43 degrees Centigrade minus. It also managed 1,332 km fault-free flight. The manufacture of the helicopter began in 1991 by Changhe Company in Jindezhen of east China's Jiangxi Province. It is able to fly 598 km at a speed of 240 km per hour. The helicopter can be used for many purposes, such as coaching, reconnaissance, communication, rescue, smuggle suppression and scientific research. |
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