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This document summarizes plans by the Flying for Freedom organization to send a team of 8 disabled service personnel on an expedition to fly microlight aircraft and land at the South Pole. The expedition aims to provide new challenges for the wounded through flight training and raise awareness and funds for the organization. Significant preparations and safety measures are required given the extreme Antarctic conditions and risks. The team will face challenges with adapted prosthetics, protective clothing, food and equipment to operate in temperatures as low as -30°C. The expedition aims to achieve several world firsts and provide inspiration for injured pilots.
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- 5. • A na(onal flying club and microlight school run by and for the wounded, injured and sick • Annual Scholarships for disabled pilot trainees • Annual Flying Expedi(ons to foster pilot skills • Self-‐sustaining: Injured pilots support injured trainees • Peer support for issues such as Post Trauma(c Stress • Creates work opportuni(es What
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- 11. Lord Digby Jones,KT Rory Underwood MBE Jim French CBE REARAdmiral MALCOLM CREE MA Major General Phil Jones CBE Army Air Marshall Greg Bagwell CB CBE RAF PAtRons & SUPPORTERS
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- 13. Inspire Provide a newchallenges and focus through flight training, expeditions and events. What Raise Awareness Raise Funds
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- 15. Enable Fund flight trainingin adapted Microlights in centres around across the UK and beyond What
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- 17. An introduction tothe aerospace industry, peer support and a route to employment Self-Sustaining: WIS supporting WIS What Support
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- 21. Of all theplaces on the face of the Earth, Antarctica has proven to be the most challenging Average temperatures: -25.9 °C (Summer) -62.8 °C (Winter) Average windspeed: 12 mph (at the pole) Katabatic windspeeds: 198 mph (at the coast)
- 23. ANTARCTIC FLYING A BriefHistory of Antarctic Aviation
- 24. Although he isremembered for the ill fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) , the first person to fly over the Antarctic was British Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott. On February 4, 1902, Scott made the first flight over Antarctica. He went aloft in a tethered hot-air balloon off the Antarctic Coast and made several scientific observations. He was the very first person to peer into the heart of Antarctica. One of Scott's colleagues, Ernest Shackleton, went up next and took the first aerial photographs of the continent. ROBERT FALCON SCOTT 1902 (BALLOON)
- 25. Sir Douglas Mawsonfirst saw the potential of the aeroplane for aerial exploration in Antarctica. His 1911 expedition to Commonwealth Bay included plans to use a Vickers REP Monoplane. However, thanks to an accident that occurred during a demonstration flight just prior to departure, the Vickers was never airborne in Antarctica. Had the accident not occurred, then he would have been first to fly an aeroplane in Antarctica. The Vickers was re-engineered as a propeller driven sledge or air tractor, but failed before use. SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON 1911 (AEROPLANE)
- 26. FIRST AMERICAN EXPEDITION ARACE TO BE FIRST TO FLY AN AEROPLANE AT THE POLE RICHARD BYRD 1928
- 28. RICHARD BYRD 1928 FIRSTAMERICAN EXPEDITION
- 29. Sir Hubert Wilkinsbecame the first person to fly an aeroplane in Antarctica on January 05, 1929 in a Lockheed Vega. In doing so, he beat Admiral Richard Byrd’s American Expedition by just 10 days. His expedition took two Vega’s equipped with floats and conducted aerial mapping of 100,000 square miles. SIR HUBERT WILKINS 1928 (AEROPLANE)
- 31. 107 MPH /570 MILE RANGE RICHARD BYRD 1929 (AEROPLANE)
- 33. 100 mph /800 mile range
- 34. 1930 SIR HUBERTWILKINS (NORTH POLE)
- 35. Sir Hubert Wilkinsorganised three expeditions to the Antarctic (1932 -1939) to assist American millionaire explorer, Lincoln Ellsworth in his attempts to be the first to fly across the Antarctic continent. Ellsworth and pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, took off in the specially built Northrop Polar Star from Dundee Island in the Weddell Sea and headed across Antarctica to Little America. Fuel exhaustion forced them to land 40 kilometers (25 miles) short of their goal. The Polar Star was recovered and is on display in the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. Lincoln Ellsworth 1932 -1939 & Sir Hubert Wilkins
- 36. In 1956 aUS Navy DC3 named "Que Sera Sera" piloted by LCDR Gus Shinn, under the command of RADM George Dufek, became the first to land at the South Pole. Operation “Deep Freeze” also become the first expedition to stand at the pole since Captain Scott and the first Americans to set foot on the South Pole. GEORGE DUFEK 1956 (FIRST TO LAND AT THE POLE)
- 37. Today the 109thAirlift Wing of the N.Y. Air National Guard, make daily 841 mile trips from the airstrip at McMurdo Station to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
- 39. Replacing lost and brokenlimbs with wings
- 40. • Extreme conditions • Physically demanding • Technically difficult • Logistically difficult – Everything you need you must take with you – You can’t leave anything there. NO ONE HAS EVER FLOWN A FLEXWING IN ANTARCTICA
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- 46. WORLD FIRSTS Ouraircraft performance is similar to that of the first aviation pioneers in Antarctica: • first to fly open cockpit flex-wing Microlight aircraft in Antarctica • first to land a Microlight at the South Pole NEVER BEEN ATTEMPTED BY THE ABLE BODIED
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- 49. Team challenges 8 disabledservice personnel will fly to the South Pole with a support team and: • Antarctic Prosthetics, that can function at -30°C • Adapted Protective Clothing – To protect skin grafts / burns – To protect paralysed eyes – To protect against poor circulation in amputated limbs • Hi-tech foods • Heated flying suits and helmets Everything that flies in a small Microlight has to be light weight.
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- 54. Safety challenges Expeditionsmust operate in a self supported manner, be risk assessed and receive a permit from the FCO. • Fully Risk Assessed by FCO & MOD. • Rescue / Evacuation Plan and Insurance. • Experienced Leaders – Antarctic Veterans. • Doctors embedded in the team. • Team Training at -25°C in Northern Scandinavia (Jan 2013). • Team includes CAA Certified flying instructors and examiners. Richard over Everest Kirk – Halley 6 Dr Matt Edwards - Sky Blu station James – BAAE 2002
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- 60. Puls-R Max take ofFweight: 450 kg Range:1288 km (800Miles) ATTEMPT ON THE SOUTH POLE: ENGINE COLD START CUSTOM HANGAR TENT SOLAR PANEL CONVERTED SNOWMOBILE HELMETS 72 HOURS RATIONS(2) STOVE fUEL GPS TRANSCEIVER(2) ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION SUIT,BOOTS,MITTS, LINERs& WINDPROOF OVER SUIT (x2)SLEEPING BAG (2) x
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- 68. 3D PRINTING -LASER SINTERED TITANIUM Wing Rigging
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- 73. A400M take ofF weight:141,000kg Range: 4,540km (2,450Miles) DEPLOYMENT TO ANTARCTICA: Flying@10,000ft 1800 miles (Equivalent TO flying from London to ISTANBULL) OF COLD&ICE 3400 LITRES OF PETROL Mt vinson SOUTH POLE (AVE)12MPH WIND WIND Plan (z)
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- 78. YOU CAN FUNDA WOUNDED PILOT THROUGH TRAINING FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF AN APPLE MACBOOK COMPUTER Inspire
- 79. Enable YOU CAN PROVIDE ANENTIRE MICROLIGHT FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SECOND HAND CAR, PROVIDING TRAINING FOR YEARS TO COME!
- 80. Support WE NEED TOFUND OUR TRAINING & EXPEDITIONS FUEL INSURANCE AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE PILOT EQUIPMENT
- 81. You can makea donation now Text ‘WINGS’ to 70900 to donate £3 to Help for Heroes - Flying for Freedom You will be charged £3 plus your standard network rate £3 goes directly to Help for Heroes Flying for Freedom | Telephone helpline: 01494 750500 www.flyingforfreedom.org Donate