Tuesday, August 11, 2026

She stood on Flying plane at 97yrs age!

Wing walking is strapping yourself to the top of a biplane and standing there while it flies. She has done it six times. She started at 87. Her most recent flight was at RFC Rendcomb Airfield in Cirencester, at the age of 97 years and 127 days, which broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest female wing walker — a record she already held herself. She had a stroke the year before. That detail rearranges the whole story. This is not somebody who is simply carrying on doing a thing she has always done. She had a serious medical event, recovered from it at 96, and then decided that the appropriate response was to be strapped to an aeroplane again. Wing walking is not gentle. At altitude the wind is loud and cold and constant, it pulls at everything, and you cannot get down until the pilot lands. It is genuinely physically demanding, which is precisely why the record exists. She holds it, and the only person who has ever taken it off her is her. Six times since 87. The seventh is presumably being considered.

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