Below the helicopter are an RAF Mountain Rescue Land Rover from RAF Leeming and an Across Jumbulance for transporting terminally ill patients on holiday (Across is a charity). The pictures were taken on Sunday 30/01/00 at the start of the ‘Across the Roof of Britain Walk’.

Here a RAF Search and Rescue Sea King helicopter approaches in a cloudless sky.

As the same heli comes in to land among some houses, the winchman looks out to check for any obstructions.

A RAF rescue crew transfer a patient to their yellow Sea King helicopter before rushing them to hospital.

A look inside a RAF Sea King search and rescue helicopter.

A RAF Sea King helicopter preparing for take off from a York hospital.



The take off. It is carrying a baby in an incubator unit to a hospital in the Midlands.



The Sea King heads off into the distance.

A RAF Westland S61 Sea King HAR3, renowned for their role as search and rescue helicopters, over the North Sea.

Here is another rescue Sea King in a scenic Lake District picture.