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Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Meaders: Paralyzed Air Race Pilot

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9938 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Episode 118 of the Pilot to Pilot podcast features Formula One Air Race Pilot, Justin Meaders. Justin, was Injured in a horrible motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. There was never a moment where Justin felt sorry for himself, he wasn’t going to let this injury define him. Justin chronicles his journey on how he became a pilot and how he is now a formula one air race pilot.

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0:00.0

Episode 118 of the Pilot the Pilot Podcast takes off now. My name is Justin Meaders and I'm a Formula One race pilot, actually the first paraplegic

0:21.7

or any race pilot that I know of.

0:24.0

A. V Nation, what is going on and welcome back to the pilot

0:29.0

the pilot podcast, episode number 118.

0:32.0

My name is Justin Seams and I am your host today I mean I say this all the time but really today is a special episode I'm talking with Justin from limitless

0:40.7

underscore Air underscore racing I believe I got that right,

0:43.9

but go ahead and follow him real quick,

0:45.4

check him out before you listen.

0:46.8

Then come back and listen real quick,

0:48.3

but Justin has an incredible story.

0:50.3

Justin is a paralyzed pilot. He was a former expert pro class of road racing

0:56.4

and he was starting to make a name for himself. He actually had an accident and

1:00.9

unfortunately he had an accident where the bike flipped over multiple times and it left him paralyzed.

1:05.2

He was going 150 miles an hour when he crashed on his motorcycle and the motorcycle landed on him several times breaking his back and multiple other bones while also damaging his spinal cord.

1:15.3

This accident put an abrupt end to his racing career and he was also a firefighter,

1:20.4

but just did not let that keep him down.

1:23.1

He actually talked about this and I actually asked him the question, just, what was it like?

1:26.7

What was going through your head?

1:27.7

And he was just like, I want to keep doing more.

1:29.4

Like, I'm not going to let this define who I am.

1:31.7

And I want to be a pilot. I've always wanted to be one and I just want to keep going and going.

1:36.0

So through this podcast we start finding out just what he did to become a pilot and what he did to eventually lead him to become a Formula One Air Race pilot.

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