SneakyDingo
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Ref: https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...walking-flights-revokes-owners-pilot-license/
Have you ever heard of an idea and thought, "I better do that before they make it illegal?" For me, it was wing walking. You know, those old barnstormers and daredevils of old, playing tennis on the top of a biplane or otherwise doing crazy antics that the fun police would be all over today.
We have reached the end of another era. Wing walking was something I highly recommended if given the opportunity and the means, but the last place that I know of where you could go and do it has been shut down by the FAA. No real surprises that this would eventually come to pass, but I will cherish this photo and the coin I received for completion for the rest of my life. Maybe one day they'll find a way to do it again, but I doubt it.
Last I checked, I only knew of one other place in the world where you can go wing walking, and they had a much lower weight limit, an insanely long time to queue, and were located in the UK.
I'm posting this partially as a "prove me wrong" moment, but as far as I know this was the last place you could commercially sign up to be a wing walker, without being employed by a flying troupe.
Video of wing walking:
Have you ever heard of an idea and thought, "I better do that before they make it illegal?" For me, it was wing walking. You know, those old barnstormers and daredevils of old, playing tennis on the top of a biplane or otherwise doing crazy antics that the fun police would be all over today.
We have reached the end of another era. Wing walking was something I highly recommended if given the opportunity and the means, but the last place that I know of where you could go and do it has been shut down by the FAA. No real surprises that this would eventually come to pass, but I will cherish this photo and the coin I received for completion for the rest of my life. Maybe one day they'll find a way to do it again, but I doubt it.
Last I checked, I only knew of one other place in the world where you can go wing walking, and they had a much lower weight limit, an insanely long time to queue, and were located in the UK.
I'm posting this partially as a "prove me wrong" moment, but as far as I know this was the last place you could commercially sign up to be a wing walker, without being employed by a flying troupe.
Video of wing walking:
