COMMUNICATIONS AWARD For creative distinction in disseminating information about the helicopter industry
Georgina Hunter-Jones Editor, Helicopter Life Magazine, Chichester, West Sussex, England
For more than 35 years, UK resident and Helicopter Life editor Georgina Hunter-Jones has highlighted the importance of helicopters in our everyday lives. Hunter-Jones’s passion for rotorcraft began early. She remembers writing creative stories as a little girl. While in university,
she discovered her second passion in a most uncommon way. She wanted to work a summer in Kenya, but her mother offered her a different adventure: If Hunter-Jones stayed in the United Kingdom, her mother would pay for her private-pilot single-engine land airplane license. Hunter-Jones took her mother up on the offer, a decision that changed her life. Hunter-Jones was hooked. She went on to earn additional airplane ratings,
including flight instructor, before receiving similar ratings in helicopters. Since earning that first license, she’s flown around the world in a variety of helicopters and airplanes, accumulating more than 8,500 hours of flight time. She’s competed in the World Helicopter Championships, set a world altitude record in a helicopter, and gained UK CAA examiner authorization for both aircraft categories.
While she had difficulty finding paid writing opportunities before Georgina Hunter-Jones
she stepped into aviation, Hunter-Jones found the helicopter journalism industry fertile ground. Not long after she started flying, she began writing about aviation in a variety of publications, including Rotor and Wing, Flight International, Air Pictorial, Helicopter World, 4 Rotors, and Flyer Magazine. In 1997, she became the editor of the Helicopter Club of Great Britain’s periodical, Rotor Torque, turning it into a full-color magazine and expanding
its content. In 2004, she developed her own publication, Helicopter Life, dedicated to educating and inspiring those in the helicopter industry. Hunter-Jones’s aim has always been to promote and drive an interest
in helicopters. Her magazine has covered a diverse selection of subjects, including firefighting, helicopter safaris, film work, international air ambulance work, and charter flying, to illustrate how helicopters are utilized by civilian and commercial operators worldwide. She has also written regular flight-test reports for the magazine for aircraft ranging from the piston Bell 47 to the S-64 Skycrane. Hunter-Jones focuses particularly on promoting alternate technologies
in the aviation world and has championed small start-up helicopter companies looking to make helicopter flying accessible to everyone. Hunter-Jones also dedicates her time to mentoring and inspiring
Hunter-Jones has always aimed to promote helicopters, including
championing small start-up companies seeking to make helicopter flying accessible to everyone.
the next generation through her writing. Her children’s book Biscuit and Oscar Learn to Fly opens the world of flight to young minds. She’s also written two nonfiction books about her aviation experiences, one about her flight across the Atlantic and the other about her flight across Russia. A member of the Whirly-Girls, she often mentors the next generation of female
helicopter pilots and volunteers as a member of Te Skinners’ Co., a London charitable organization dating to the 15th century that supports educating youths.
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