Pilot Per Lindstrand

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Per Lindstrand

Living place: Sweden

Birthday: 8-9-1948 (76 years old)

Global rank: #98112

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Who is Pilot Per Lindstrand?
Per Lindstrand is a Swedish businessman, explorer, pilot and aeronautical engineer. He is also known for his cross-oceanic ballooning and for wanting to set a world record for flying across the globe in a hot air balloon. He is the founder of the Lindstrand balloon factory based in Oswestry, UK.
On 6/6/1988 Per Lindstrand set a world record by flying a hot air balloon when it reached at an altitude of 19, 811 m. This record was only broken by Vijaypat Singhania on November 26, 2005. In 1991 Per Lindstrand and Branson made the longest flight in history, flying 6.761 miles from Japan to Northern Canada in a hot air balloon.
December 1998 he teamed up with Richard Branson and Steve Fossett made a 7 day flight with a length of 20000 km in a hot air balloon called Rozière from Morocco to the Pacific Ocean.
In 1988 and 1999 he was honored twice with medals. Gold Medal from Royal Aero Club's Gold Medal.
In 1988 he won the trophy of the British national aviation club.
February 2006 he was awarded an honorary scholarship from the Royal Institute of British Architects with his creations.
 
 

Young / Before famous

Per Lindstrand was for a time a technical officer in the Swedish Air Force.
In 1970 he made the first hot air balloon flight of his life out of a bet and with a hot air balloon he owned. self-made.
Per Lindstrand studied and earned a degree in aeronautical engineering, after which he moved to work for the Swedish airline Saab and the American Lockheed.
The second time he received a hot air balloon, which his neighbor bought from a company in England, he realized that compared to this new balloon he could make it much better.
In 1983, during a sponsorship event of an industrial dairy company in Wales with a hot air balloon carrying Gotta Lotta milk bottles, but due to bad weather, the flight was delayed. An accident occurred when Per Lindstrand was pulled up 30 feet and fell resulting in a dislocated shoulder.

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When was Pilot Per Lindstrand born?
Per Lindstrand birthday 8-9-1948 (at the age of 76).
Where is Pilot Per Lindstrand's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Per Lindstrand was born in Sweden. Mr, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Per Lindstrand's global rank is 98112 and whose rank is 137 in list of famous Pilot.
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Events in 1948 and 8-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Per Lindstrand

  • Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu militant (Jan. 30).
  • Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia (Feb. 23-25). Background: The Cold War
  • Organization of American States (OAS) Charter signed at Bogotá, Colombia (April 30).
  • Nation of Israel proclaimed; British end Mandate at midnight; Arab armies attack (May 14). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
  • Berlin Airlift begins (June 21); ends May 12, 1949.
  • Stalin and Tito break (June 28).
  • United States of Indonesia established as Dutch and Indonesians settle conflict (Dec. 27).

Birthday Per Lindstrand (8-9) in history

  • Day 8-9 year 1900: A hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing about 8,000 people.
  • Day 8-9 year 1935: Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish," was shot and mortally wounded by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.
  • Day 8-9 year 1951: The San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed, formally ending World War II hostilities with Japan.
  • Day 8-9 year 1952: Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea was published.
  • Day 8-9 year 1966: Star Trek premiered on television.
  • Day 8-9 year 1974: President Gerald Ford gave former President Nixon a full pardon for all federal crimes he may have committed while he was in office.
  • Day 8-9 year 1998: Mark McGwire's 62nd home run broke Roger Maris's record of 61 homers set in 1961.
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