Lee Evans, Senior Test Pilot at Leonardo Company delivered an incredible aviation story about operating Lynx helicopters to a Royal Navy ice breaker in the harshest environment on our planet. Using incredible video footage and photographs from his time as a Fleet Air Arm pilot on-board HMS Endurance, Lee highlighted the challenges of operating helicopters in Antarctica – the harshest environment on Earth.

He talked about the history of Antarctic helicopter Aviation and how shipborne helicopters from HMS Endurance provided essential support for the UK Hydrographic Office, Foreign Commonwealth Office and British Antarctic Survey. He also spoke about what it was like to be a filming pilot for the BBC Natural History blockbuster ‘Planet Earth’ and how the crews had to overcome unpredictable winds, snow, ice, mountains, wildlife, icebergs and rough seas on a daily basis.

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