Osprey 1 - Racedeck 0

[driftpin]

No, I dunno this is actually Racedeck, it resembles it, though. Video from the UK, where the ground mat takes-flight while the Osprey departs. It's a hospital trauma helipad area, not-paved.

Those of you with short attention-span can immediately go to 2:20. I believe there is a favorable comparison between a hot stripper and the Osprey: when either is workin'-it, you cannot look-away. You have-to watch.

 

[budget76]

wonder how close it got to flipping into the prop when it lifted up. also curious who signed off on having a floating 'pad' at a helipad and couldn't see this coming.

 

[Kaizen]

I ain’t no aeronautical engineer but I don’t think I would have built that.
Seriously though probably has been fine for years using medflight size helicopters.


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[kbeefy]

Unsecured items and/or FOD was always bad juju on the flight line.

I watched a cardboard box get blown up and sucked into the rotors on a wildfire base.
Grounded my helicopter for a couple days while we did 'sudden stoppage' inspections.

If it was much bigger than cardboard all the gearboxes would have had to been sent in for NDI.

 

[SALIV8]

That has to be super dangerous had that **** touched the chopper.

 

[aka Larry]

That has to be super dangerous had that **** touched the chopper.

Said damage would not be cheap either. According to Wiki, the price tag for an Osprey is approx. $67 million.

I guess concrete wasn't in the hospital's budget.

 

[Sumboodie]

Unsecured items and/or FOD was always bad juju on the flight line.

I watched a cardboard box get blown up and sucked into the rotors on a wildfire base.
Grounded my helicopter for a couple days while we did 'sudden stoppage' inspections.

If it was much bigger than cardboard all the gearboxes would have had to been sent in for NDI.

I worked at Ted Atevens for a while. It was nuts on how lax vs on Elmendorf.

I lost a shovel off my dumptruck, the clamp popped open. They were like "meh, it'll show up someday, just grab another"

That would have shut down the line on base and a LONG shift searching until found.

Was often I'd pretrip a truck or equipment and find random tools, bolts, etc that someone forgot or hadn't bothered to throw out.

One night they went out with a snowblower that had been acting up, set it to kill mode, ran into the snow berm and launched a chuck of ice THROUGH a FedEx plane that was taxiing a few hundred feet away.

That one caused a safety meeting since it was like $45k in damages

 

[58Yeoman]

Hey boss, I figured out a way of saving the hospital some money. Instead of paving the heliport, let's just use the old rubber flooring from the basement...

 

[Sumboodie]

Said damage would not be cheap either. According to Wiki, the price tag for an Osprey is approx. $67 million.

I guess concrete wasn't in the hospital's budget.

I had no idea the USAF even had the Cv22.

I dealt with munitions so F15s, F16s, A10s, B1, B52, F22, etc.

 

[mike93lx]

I need an osprey. Looks like it would be fun

 

[carlosh]

I had no idea the USAF even had the Cv22.



I dealt with munitions so F15s, F16s, A10s, B1, B52, F22, etc.

SOCOM

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[ZRX61]

I guess concrete wasn't in the hospital's budget.

Pull up Addenbrookes Cambridge on Google Earth, there's a huge amount of construction going on. I spent many nights in the nurses quarters there

 

[southalabama]

Training paid off. Now they know what won’t work though someone should have figured that out before

 

[nadogail]

Turbine Engines are like vacuum cleaners on steroids.

They ****, Sueeze, Bang and Blow. If something is loose the sucking turbine will try to eat it even if it's allergic to what it ingested.

The technical term for this allergy is FOD, Foreign Object Damage.