Retired Airline Captain Michelle Huntington talks about transoceanic ferry flights, lightning strikes, and breast cancer with humor and grace in her entertaining and impactful memoir, Lady MacGyver
Send us Fan Mail In her memoir, Lady MacGyver, Michelle Huntington shares everything from ferry flights across oceans to surviving a lightning strike over Australia's Snowy Mountains, building an airline career after being told women couldn't be pilots, motherhood, breast cancer, and the mindset that carried her through it all. Our discussion explores those experiences, along with her writing process, her philosophy of "keep going until you can't," and even a friendly debate about the word av...
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