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As Carlos said, they don't need as much power to land, when gravity is in their favour, as they do to lift off when gravity is working against them. I learnt that one when standing underneath helicopters.
The site is the normal one used by the air ambulance, i guess they just didn't take into account the power of the osprey compare to the usual types to use it.
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Looks to me like a temporary set up that, um, didn't work.
It reminds me of some tests done on Midway with V2's for sea launches.
One burned a 20 foot diameter hole through the armored flight deck.
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castelnuovo How come the helipad wasn't damaged when the Osprey landed?
How come the helipad wasn't damaged when the Osprey landed?
Probably because the power is decreasing as they land, but power is increased to lift off. Who makes a helipad from soft mats like that? What happened to concrete? PSP? Metal decking?
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N is for NO SURVIVORS...
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Edit: I have deleted the previous content of this post. Reading it later, I found it to be in poor taste - I apologise to anyone else who found it so.
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A CV-22 Osprey from RAF Mildenhall has ripped up the Air Ambulance helipad at Addenbrooks Hospital in Cambridge. Cleary some one did not do their risk assesment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-56847090
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