Any ex military care to comment on the expert planning for this US exercise or about how long it should take our US friends to sort them out with a new helipad? Addenbrooks' helimed flights are currently having to go to Cambridge Airport and transfer their patient to an ambulance!
I'm not ex military, but I reckon that is fixable in about 10 minutes. A few tent pegs knocked in, jobs a good un.
Serving military and in the related trade. Massive ****ups on both sides here. The Osprey crew should have checked how strong the structure was before landing anywhere near it, and the hospital should have realised the potential for a double rotor aircraft that pumps out more power and downwash than a Chinook on takeoff to dismantle anything nearby. It's a FOD disaster and they were very, very lucky not to get one in the rotor. If there was any doubt about the frangibility of the structure there's plenty room to taxy further away.
The yanks don't even do that. The crew will probably be on the next flight home. Having made several complaints about them (or calling them for a quick corrector) I don't really agree with that approach - it's a very different environment flying over here than in the states so there's always going to be the odd problem - but that's the way they choose to do it.
I have just had to like that post. If for no other reason than the use of the word " frangibility". 10/10!