Maine's newest LifeFlight helicopter is being unveiled today at its home base in Lewiston.
"This is a brand new helicopter- a brand new technology for LifeFlight, both next gen aviation and next gen medicine," says Thomas Judge, the executive director of LifeFlight in Maine.
Judge says the non-profit emergency transport organization has struggled to serve the whole state with just two older helicopters for almost 20 years.
Judge says the new addition, known as Whiskey Mike, can do everything those choppers can do, but better. "More fuel efficient, it's faster, it has longer range, it has more lift capacity, it has more payload capacity."
Judge says, inside, Whiskey Mike, is basically a mobile emergency room with the latest technology, improving the prospect of transporting the most critical cases.
Whiskey Mike will be based at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston; the public is invited to tour the copter at noon today
