Jun 012010
I do believe someone’s in for a reamin’.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/10_are_hurt_in_ny_park_after_m.html
A U.S. Marine Corps aircraft’s powerful propellers whipped up a wind that sent branches hurling off a tree and into a crowd of about 150 people watching a Memorial Day demonstration in a park, leaving 10 people with cuts and other minor injuries, officials and a witness said.
Be sure to watch the video.
Ooops.
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Minimum safe distance, not just a catchy, cool phrase. And the person to get the reaming is the idiot who violated minimum safe distance regs. NEVER place yourself directly under the path of a landing helicopter, just sayin’! And definitely do not be near trees or structures directly under the path of helios landing OR taking off. Again, just sayin’.
> the person to get the reaming is the idiot who violated minimum safe distance regs
In this case, the V-22 was being used as a bit of a theatrical prop in a Memorial Day exhibition. The civilians were apparently more or less where they were supposed to be, but whoever planned for the V-22 did not take into account what the downwash would do to the existing trees. Or the pilot came in on a different trajectory than planned, but that seems unlikely.
That severe downwash was also criticized recently in regards to V-22 use in desert areas, as it causes the aircraft to be engulfed in a dust storm as it tries to land, and the pilots lose sight of the ground – there’s a YouTube video of that happening here, where it looks like it’s landing in a farm field:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtwUfp7ezI8
Needless to say, all the dust doesn’t do the engines any good either.