Lindsay Muir interview
Category: oral-history Catalogue number: | OH0008Details| Description: | 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.
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| Interviewer: | Jennifer d'Alton |
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| Interview date: | 21 June 2024 |
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| Transcript pdf (click to open in new tab): | Lindsay Muir Transcript.pdf |
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