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Mike Kendrick

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Mike Kendrick has been there and done it - several times over. He has run some of the most complicated and daring record attempts imaginable. He was a pioneer of early hot air balloon flight and bought his first hot air balloon when modern ballooning began in the '60s - when any landing you walked away from was a good one. Mike almost killed himself, several times and his very humorous and death defying stories on flying in many parts of the world - his near misses, injuries and difficult situations, led him to become a popular after dinner speaker. He led a balloon expedition across the Sudan, which was the subject of an adventure film, has been 'shot down' for a movie set in the Alps, made a TV series for the BBC called The Balloon, and f ...more

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Thursday's Child: The Mike Kendrick Story
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Mike Kendrick (Goodreads Author),

Simon W. Golding (Goodreads Author),

Richard Branson (Foreward)

4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions

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“If they went down right now, the nearest ship is four days steaming away, and that's not good.”
― Mike Kendrick, Thursday's Child: The Mike Kendrick Story

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“We needed a bit of luck.”
― Mike Kendrick, Thursday's Child: The Mike Kendrick Story

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“There was no escape from it once we got sucked in. We tried all sorts of maneuvering but still it shot us in a southerly direction and we couldn't get out of it.”
― Mike Kendrick, Thursday's Child: The Mike Kendrick Story

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