Dr Janet Folkes
Holder of 50 ballooning records for flights, including co-piloting a world record-breaking achievement in Gordon Bennett Cup 2009, spending 69 hours in the air. Janet was an expert in lasers in the Faculty of Engineering.
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Photography credit: Nottingham Post
Special thanks to Dr Folkes’ family for agreeing to the use of this image.