Is this a first?
 

A baby has been born in a Royal Navy rescue helicopter en route to a maternity unit.

The 6lb boy was delivered in the back of the Sea King helicopter off Land's End.
It is believed to be the first birth aboard a military aircraft.

The aircraft was scrambled from the Culdrose Navy base near Helston to the Isles of Scilly to pick up Niki Burns.

She had experienced a complication while in labour in hospital on the main island of St Mary's.
She and her husband were airlifted, together with a civilian doctor and midwife.

They set off for the Royal Cornwall hospital at Treliske, Truro, but 10 miles from Land's End the woman gave birth with the help of a Royal Navy paramedic and the civilian medical staff.

The helicopter landed at the hospital 22 minutes after the child was born.

"Apparently there were no complications," said a Royal Navy spokesman.