David Beckham joined forces with the Prince of Wales to celebrate smashing a £15 million target to replace London’s ageing air ambulance helicopters.William invited the former England football captain to get into the cockpit of one of the two new aircraft that will help ensure the vital service for Londoners continues for years to come.Beckham met the prince at RAF Northolt in west London, where the two new helicopters were on display next to the aircraft they replaced.
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00:00incredible money that we generated but also to celebrate you know what these guys do you know
00:06to meet the medics to meet the pilots is something that like I said it's an interesting boy I've seen
00:12these in the in the air for many many years and I know the work that they do the incredible work
00:17that they do and it was just an honour to be invited by Prince William to be involved in this.
00:22Tell us a little bit about that invite it was a personal request from the Prince himself?
00:26Yeah you know I know what this means to Prince William and you know the moment he called and
00:34asked me to be I had to hide my excitement a little bit because like I said I've been a fan
00:39of the London Air Ambulance for a long time being an East End boy so you know and these guys rely
00:45on public funding and donations and the fact that I could get involved and we can raise the money
00:51that we raised you know bought one of these incredible helicopters so it's nice to help in a small way.