Their aims are to succeed in this unique challenge,raise awareness and funds for WWF, and celebrate 100 years of flight.
Jennifer Murray who set the record for the fastest female solo helicopter flight around the world in 2000,together with co-pilot Colin Bodill, will fly down the east coast of the U.S.,through Central and Southern America,down to the South Pole where they anticipate landing on the 17th of December, one-hundred years to the day that the Wright brothers first took to the skies.