Mark Carwardine / Helicopter for transporting wildlife rangers, leaving Codfish Island, off Stewart Island, southern New Zealand, the main home of the endangered Kakapo, January 2009

Tim Laman / Helicopter arrives at Kwerba Village to airlift the expedition team into the Foja Mountains. Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program e...

Jeff Wilson / Royal Navy helicopter from HMS Endurance flying over sea and antarctic landscape, November 2008, Taken on location for the BBC series, Frozen Planet.

Carol Walker / Mustangs / Wild horses running from helicopter at round-up, Sand Wash Herd Area, near Maybell, Colorado, USA

Sergio Hanquet / Helicopter fighting forest fire. Ifonche, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2012.

Sergio Hanquet / Helicopter fighting forest fire. Ifonche, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2012.

Sergio Hanquet / Helicopter fighting fire in Canary Island pine (Pinus canariensis) forest. Ifonche, Tenerife. Canary Islands.

Sergio Hanquet / Helicopter in cloud of smoke, fighting fire in Canary Island pine (Pinus canariensis) forest, houses in foreground. Ifonche, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2012.

Tony Heald / Fire service helicopter with water dump container. Cape Town, South Africa. 2015.

Eric Baccega / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) reintroduction from Beauval zoo, France through Gorilla Protection Project. Unloading cage containing female Gorilla from helicopter, near habituation...

Eric Baccega / Helicopter transporting Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) female to habituation island prior to reintroduction by Gorilla Protection Project. Gorilla from Beauval zoo, France. Bateke P...

Eric Baccega / Transfer of Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) cage from helicopter to boat for onward travel to habituation island. Reintroduction from Beauval Zoo through Gorilla Protection Project....

Eric Baccega / Transfer of Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) cage from helicopter to boat for onward travel to habituation island. Reintroduction from Beauval Zoo through Gorilla Protection Project....

Franco Banfi / Air Greenland helicopter used for Kulusuk to Tasiilaq flights. East Greenland. April 2018.

Ashley Cooper / RAF 'Sea King' Helicopter preparing to drop salvage experts onto The Riverdance washed ashore off Blackpool. The Riverdance was one of 3 ships lost that day off the UK. The ship was hit by a huge wave...

Ashley Cooper / RAF 'Sea King' Helicopter preparing to drop salvage experts onto The Riverdance washed ashore off Blackpool. The Riverdance was one of 3 ships lost that day off the UK. The ship was hit by a huge wave...

Sue Flood / Helicopter landing at Snow Hill Island, Weddell Sea, Antarctica, November 2009.

Sue Flood / Helicopter from Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov flies past iceberg in the Weddell Sea near Snow Hill island emperor penguin colony, Antarctica.

Sue Flood / Helicopter taking off from Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov in the Weddell Sea en route to Snow Hill island emperor penguin colony. Antarctica.

David Fleetham / Helicopter filming a tow-in surfer at Peahi (Jaws) off Maui, Hawaii. Man in foreground is driving a jetski.

David Fleetham / Helicopter filming a tow-in surfer at Peahi (Jaws) off Maui, Hawaii. Model released.

Olga Kamenskaya / Helicopter landed near Nenet camp, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arctic, Russia, July 2017.

Olga Kamenskaya / Helicopter landed near Nenet camp, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arctic, Russia, July 2017.

Sergey Gorshkov / Helicopter over waterfall in Putoransky State Nature Reserve, Putorana Plateau, Siberia, Russia

Sergey Gorshkov / Helicopter over waterfall in Putoransky State Nature Reserve, Putorana Plateau, Siberia, Russia

Sergey Gorshkov / Helicopter at waterfall in Putoransky State Nature Reserve, Putorana Plateau, Siberia, Russia

Michel Roggo / Michel Roggo at work on the ice cap above the Sermeq Kujalleq Glacier, close to the Kangia River, Ilulissat Icefjord UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sermersuaq / Greenland ice sheet, Greenland, August 201...

Orsolya Haarberg / Sami camp where they collect their reindeer for calf marking, Lake Slappejaure. They use helicopter and motorcycles for moving the herd. Padjelanta National Park, Laponia World Heritage Site, Swedish...

Hugh Pearson / Aerial view of Mount Namuli with helicopter with ciniflex flying in front, Mozambique, May 2011.

Hugh Pearson / Helicopter with ciniflex mount for filming, on location for BBC series Africa, Mount Mabu, Mozambique, May 2011.

Hugh Pearson / Aerial of Mount Namuli taken from within helicopter, Mount Namuli, Mozambique, May 2011.

Ingo Arndt / Helicopter is loaded with insecticides for Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) locust control operation. Miandrivazo Airport, Madagascar, December 2013.

Ingo Arndt / Helicopter is loaded with insecticides for Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) locust control operation. Miandrivazo Airport, Madagascar, December 2013.

Ingo Arndt / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) helicopter pilot Eric Gadot, an expert at locust control operations flying over effected area, near Miandrivazo, Madagascar. December 2013.

Ingo Arndt / Helicopter is refuelled for Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) locust control operation. Miandrivazo Airport, Madagascar December 2013.

Ingo Arndt / Helicopter spraying insecticides, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) locust control operation. Near Miandrivazo, Madagascar December 2013.

Ingo Arndt / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) locust control operation. Spraying insecticides on the ground to kill Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria capito) nymphs. Ground control operations are necessa...

Ingo Arndt / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) locust control operation. Spraying insecticides on the ground to kill Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria capito) nymphs. Ground control operations are necessa...

Ingo Arndt / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) locust control operation. Preparation of equipment for spraying insecticides on ground to kill migratory locust (Locusta migratoria capito) nymphs. Ground contr...

Ingo Arndt / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) locust control operation. Preparation of equipment for spraying insecticides on ground to kill migratory locust (Locusta migratoria capito) nymphs. Ground contr...

Ingo Arndt / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) locust control operation. Preparation of equipment for spraying insecticides on ground to kill migratory locust (Locusta migratoria capito) nymphs. Ground contr...

Ingo Arndt / Helicopter landing bringing tourists to see Harp seals (Phoca groenlandicus) on sea ice, Magdalen Islands, Canadian Arctic, Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec, Canada, March 2013.

Ingo Arndt / Helicopter hangar with two expedition helicopters inside Icebreaker ship, Polarstern. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. The Icebr...

Jen Guyton / Aerial view of the edge of Lake Urema with shadow of helicopter, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique June 2016

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Search and Rescue helicopter winter training in Bellsund, Svalbard, Norway, March.

Erlend Haarberg / Gathering domesticated Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) with helicopter and motorcycle for calf-marking in the Padjelanta National Park, Laponia World Heritage Site, Swedish Lapland, Sweden July

Franco Banfi / Heli-diving, going into the water for a scouting scuba dive in a mountain lake, Iceland

Franco Banfi / Heli-diving, going into the water for a scouting scuba dive in a mountain lake, Iceland

Franco Banfi / Heli-diving, downloading the scuba diving equipment from the helicopter on a mountain lake, Iceland

Frederique Olivier / French Icebreaker L'Astrolabe on the edge of the fast ice off Dumont D'Urville station, with helicopter moving supplies onto the ship. Antarctica. December 2014.

Pete Oxford / Vet in helicopter, preparing to dart Elephants (Loxodonta africana) for relocation to the reserve they had escaped from. Zimbabwe, November 2013.

Pete Oxford / Tranquilized Elephants (Loxodonta africana) on truck. The Elephants had been darted from a helicopter in order to be returned to the reserve they had escaped from. Zimbabwe, November 2013.

Pete Oxford / Helicopter pilot flying over Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd. The Elephants were about to be darted for relocation to the reserve they had escaped from. Zimbabwe, November 2013.

Pete Oxford / Aerial view from helicopter of Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd. The Elephants were about to be darted for relocation to the reserve they had escaped from. Zimbabwe, November 2013.

Pete Oxford / Aerial view from helicopter of Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd. The Elephants were about to be darted for relocation to the reserve they had escaped from. Zimbabwe, November 2013.

Pete Oxford / Helicopter pilot flying over Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd. The Elephants were about to be darted for relocation to the reserve they had escaped from. Zimbabwe, November 2013.

Tim Laman / Helicopter distributing rat poison, the beginning of a rat eradication program. Grytviken, South Georgia, February 2011.

Sergey Gorshkov / Helicopter flying over Wrangel Island, Far Eastern Russia, August 2010.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Icebreaker 'K. Khlebnikov' with helicopter and the Cambell Ice Tongue, Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica.

Michel Roggo / Photographer Michel Roggo taking aerial shots over Quintana Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, February 2014 Taken for the Freshwater Project.

Axel Gebauer / Helicopter in flight over foothills of Northern Caucasus Mountains, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, October.

Sergey Gorshkov / Helicopter and photographers campsite in Kamchatka, Far East Russia, July 2005.

Tim Laman / Anand Varma (left) and photographerTim Laman aboard a helicopter flying west of Yasuni National Park, Francisco de Orellana Province, Ecuador, July.

David Tipling / Tourist helicopter taking off from heli-deck of ice-breaker, on route to Snow Hill Island Emperor Penguin colony, Weddell Sea, Antarctica, November 2006

Mark Carwardine / Helicopter for transporting wildlife rangers, leaving Codfish Island, off Stewart Island, southern New Zealand, the main home of the endangered Kakapo, January 2009

Mark Carwardine / Helicopter for transporting wildlife rangers, leaving Codfish Island, off Stewart Island, southern New Zealand, the main home of the endangered Kakapo, January 2009

Mark Carwardine / Tourist helicopters at Kakapo Castle, Fiordland National Park, South Island, New Zealand, January 2009

Mark Carwardine / View from a helicopter of Fiordland National Park, South Island, New Zealand, January 2009

Mark Carwardine / Helicopter for transporting wildlife rangers, leaving Codfish Island, off Stewart Island, southern New Zealand, the main home of the endangered Kakapo, January 2009

Mark Carwardine / Fiordland National Park, South Island, New Zealand, with tourist helicopter flying in the distance, January 2009

Martha Holmes / Interior of Royal Navy helicopter showing pilots. Antarctic Peninsula. February 2008. Taken on location for BBC tv series 'Life'

Martha Holmes / Pilot Mike Watson refuelling helicopter (mounted with Cineflex camera) from drum. Amboseli, Kenya. December 2007. Taken on location for BBC tv series 'Life'

Martha Holmes / Royal Navy helicopter (mounted with Gyron) parked at Rothera, British Antarctic Survey base. Antarctic Peninsula. February 2008. Taken on location for BBC tv series 'Life'

Carol Walker / Mustangs / Wild Horses being herded by helicopter of the Bureau of Land Managment, Adobe Town, Wyoming, USA, October 2010

Carol Walker / Mustangs / Wild Horses being herded by helicopter of the Bureau of Land Managment, Adobe Town, Wyoming, USA, October 2010

Carol Walker / Mustangs / Wild Horses being herded by helicopter of the Bureau of Land Managment, Adobe Town, Wyoming, USA, October 2010

Carol Walker / Wild horses / Mustangs, group herded into corral by helicopter, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA, October 2011

Carol Walker / Wild horses / Mustangs, group herded into corral by helicopter, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA, October 2011

Carol Walker / Wild horses / Mustangs, group herded into corral by helicopter, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA, October 2011

Carol Walker / Wild horses / Mustangs, group herded into corral by helicopter, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA, October 2011

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Aerial view from helicopter across the Flow Country showing peatland pool system, Forsinard, Caithness, Scotland, UK, May.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Vendee Globe 2008/2009 start, Les Sables d'Olonne, France, 9 November 2008.

Benoit Stichelbaut / 60ft Multihull "Banque Populaire" and helicopter, Transatlantic Jacques Vabre race. November, 2007

Merryn Thomas / Royal Navy helicopter flying over Cornish Pilot Gig off Town Beach, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. World Pilot Gig Championships, May 2009.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Helicopter flying over Maxiyacht "Banque Populaire V", skippered by Pascal Bidégorry, crossing the finish line at Lizard Point, Cornwall, for a new North Atlantic Record, in 3 days, 15 hours, 25 minu...

Benoit Stichelbaut / Helicopter flying low over "Veolia Environment" (Roland Jourdain and Jean-Luc Nelias) at the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre race, departing Le Havre, France. 8th November 2009.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Helicopter flying over fleet at the Transat AG2R La Mondiale Prologue, Concarneau, Brittany, France. April 2010.

Onne van der Wal / Four yachts racing under spinnaker, with helicopter nearby, during the Acura Miami Grand Prix, Florida, USA. March 2008

Rick Tomlinson / View from helicopter cockpit at the start of leg one of the 10th Volvo Ocean Race, Alicante, Spain, October 2008. For EDITORIAL USE only.

Rick Tomlinson / "Telefonica Blue" with the filming boat "Water Wizard" shadowing the fleet at the start of leg one of the 10th Volvo Ocean Race, 2008-2009, Alicante, Spain, October 2008. For EDITORIAL USE only.

Rick Tomlinson / Helicopter and Lifeboat during Round the Island Race, The British Classic Yacht Club Regatta, Cowes Classic Week, July 2008

Adam White / Gig crews rowing out to towards the start line near Tresco for the next heat of the 19th World Pilot Gig Championships, Isles of Scilly, May 2008

Adam White / "Iron Maid" ladies crew (Scilly) winning their heat at the 19th World Pilot Gig Championships, Isles of Scilly, May 2008

Benoit Stichelbaut / Trimaran and helicopter at Orma Multihull Championship, September 2005

Eric Baccega / Tourists taking photographs of a Harp seal (Phoca groenlandicus) on sea ice, with helicopter in background, Magdalen Islands, Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec, Canada, March 2012

Eric Baccega / Helicopter bringing tourists to see Harp seals (Phoca groenlandicus) on sea ice, Magdalen Islands, Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec, Canada, March 2012