Lindsay Muir interview

Category: oral-history

Catalogue number: OH0008

Lindsay Muir with Hot Air Balloon Championship Trophy

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Jennifer d'Alton and Lindsay Muir discussed the challenges and opportunities faced by women in ballooning,   

  • Lindsay Muir recounts her first hot air balloon flight on November 21, 1983, 200 years after the first balloon in France.
  • Lindsay Muir enjoys teaching flying, passing on knowledge to young pilots.
  • Lindsay Muir shares stories of dramatic hot air balloon flights, including a flight with a passenger who had a brain tumour.
  • Lindsay Muir recounts a close call during a flight when he was sucked into a cloud and had to make a fast vertical landing on a grass airfield.
  • Lindsay Muir discusses plans to create the first all-women's team to fly across the Atlantic.
  • Lindsay Muir discusses lack of representation of women in sport leadership positions.
Interviewer: Jennifer d'Alton
Interview date: 21 June 2024
Transcript pdf (click to open in new tab):Lindsay Muir Transcript.pdf
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