Originally Posted by snafu
The load was a shed....flat packed and tidy inside a net, but with the pitched roof on top of the walls and floor, so as soon as we'd lifted it, the aerodynamics around the roof meant that it started flying independently inside the net!!
Aerodynamic issues were well-recognised by the time I joined JATOC, and subsequent shed-insertions were done by Chinook. Fully-assembled at Aldergove, it took seconds to unload a shed by running it straight off the ramp. Recovery was just as swift.