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Ready, teddy, go for high-flying bear.
(From Yorkshire Post)
Julie Hemmings A FURRY daredevil is taking a well-earned break before starting a further round of fundraising stunts.
Terence the teddy is recuperating at home after becoming the first British bear in space, the culmination of an action-packed nine months as the fundraising mascot of the Great North Air Ambulance.
The airmen of RAF 100 Squadron, based at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, took Terence under their wing and with them he has travelled the world and beyond.
Including his trip aboard pioneer Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne - fired from the Mojave Desert in California in September - Terence has flown on 17 different types of military and civilian aircraft and with 100 Squadron has travelled to the Middle and Far East, Cyprus and all over Britain.
He has flown on board the squadron's Hawk jets for demonstrations at air shows and joined the RAF Falcon parachute display team for two jumps, as well as finding the time to go Formula One racing at Silverstone.
The Great North Air Ambulance had intended to auction off Terence to raise cash - its three helicopters, based at Durham Tees Valley Airport, Blyth in Northumberland and Appleby in Cumbria, cost GBP2.25m a year to run, all from fundraising.
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