Royal Navy's 'flying trucks' travel 10,000 miles to fight Ebola

Royal Navy's 'flying trucks' travel 10,000 miles to fight Ebola

Royal Navy's 'flying trucks' travel 10,000 miles to fight Ebola Royal Navy helicopters from RNAS Culdrose, in Helston, have f... 01:57

Royal Navy's 'flying trucks' travel
10,000 miles to fight Ebola

Royal Navy helicopters from RNAS Culdrose, in
Helston, have flown more than 10,000 miles over
Sierra Leone in the fight against Ebola.
Using support ship RFA Argus as their base, the
three helicopters have spent more than nine days
in the skies, over 210 hours, delivering supplies,
food, stores and people.
For the mission in Sierra Leone, codenamed
Operation Gritrock, the helicopters are effectively
being used as “flying trucks,” slinging loads in
huge nets beneath them containing several tonnes
of desperately-needed aid.
They have flown three dozen sorties to date in
support of the British Government ’s £230 million
effort to deal with the disease in Sierra Leone.