Wing walking?

[eugegall]

I really want to do this?

Can anyone suggest anywhere i can do this in the south east?

Cheers?

[Pitts2112]

Try the search function. There are loads of threads on this topic.

[Cusco]

Here's one for starters

http://www.pprune.org/private-flying/452845-amanda-franklin.html

[Mr Cessna]

Damyns Hall do wing walking, they use an old biplane and they usually do it from June - September
:E

[Barcli]

In a word - dont

[18greens]

Don't listen to the naysayers. If you want to do it go for it.

Talk to Vic Norman at Aerosuperbatics at rendcombe. Looks like it's £399 for a trip. Let us know how it goes.

[PLINKY DEL MAYO]

Here's one for you:

Wingwalking, Wing Walk, Wingwalking Displays, Wingwalk, Wing walk UK, Wing Walking (http://www.aerobatictactics.co.uk/wing_walking.html)

[Dawdler]

Here's one for starters

Amanda Franklin (http://www.pprune.org/private-flying/452845-amanda-franklin.html)

Cusco It perhaps should be pointed out that at the time of the tragic accident incurred by the Franklins, neither were wing walking. Both were in the cockpit and suffered burn injuries from which Amanda has sadly died..

It is a sad fact the aircraft suffered engine problems which could indeed happen to any aircraft. The death of beautiful Amanda is a tremendous loss to her family and the aviation fraternity both. I am sure neither would wish such display activities be fettered in the future by one unfortunate accident.

[Cusco]

OK Dawdler, the tragic Amanda just made it back to the cockpit but the engine fire that led to the crash happened during a wing walking routine.

I watched the wing walkers at Duxford Airshow last week, flying in winds which had cancelled many of the displays and take my hat off to them:

I certainly wouldn't do it: and having seen Martin Shaw's Stearman inverted and on fire at Old Buck after a take-off accident a few years ago I certainly wouldn't want to be on the wing at take-off.

Like this poor girl:

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Each one to his own.

[rusty sparrow]

run this event regularly - not cheap at £400 +

Wing Walking Experience, Damyns Hall Aerodrome, Essex # (http://www.spicebham.com/bookit/bkiteventwriteup.asp?eventno=025414)

[stiknruda]

Cusco,

I know you, I like you and as the sun came up this morning I saw yr reference to Amanda and couldn't work out what you meant. I've met both Amanda's and Kyle's fathers - who perished in a mid-air a few years ago. I've seen Kyle and his dad pefrorm with Kyle on the wing of a jet powered Waco bipe

Thank you for posting that terrible Oz event - aviation can be as dangerous or safe as you want to make it! Spinning in from that height was a lot more cataclysmic than I'd believed possible.

I've spent the last few days doing close formation aerobatics - today, we had a fully-informed passenger. I guarantee that we were not as tight as we were yesterday. It alters the dynamic when you involve third-parties.

Stik

[Flash0710]

if you are brave enough go fo it.... personally i'm too terrified and a bit embarrassed that Girls do it and i wont:D......

You would have to have the brains of a Jeremy Kyle participant to get on the roof of a Tiger Moth...

This picture i have robbed from somewhere blatently shows people on powerful well equpped machines doing a great job for GA and wingwalking by excecuting a flawless aerial wedding.....

im sure you have all seen it before but this thread had me reaching for my razor blades so i thought i would cheer you all up....

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/Noblelordflash/973055FD-F51D-70CE-1ADCA47661573636.jpg

Much Love.....


Xxxx

[Cusco]

Stik: I'm truly flattered by your warm endorsement on the basis of a single meeting over ten years ago:

The OP was expressing a wish to carry out wing walking and was effectively canvassing details of where he could sublimate his desires.

I don't think he'd used the search function, and having read about the Kyles' tragic accident a few weeks ago and with the Amanda Franklin thread already running just six postings below his I linked them for his convenience.

I'm not in any way seeking to besmirch the Kyles' performances: I have seen videos of their act a couple of years ago and they are true professionals: What happened to them with Amanda's loss in an unmitigated tragedy.

I watched the wing walkers at Duxford at the spring Airshow last week flying in winds of 24G35 and have the greatest respect for their undoubted skill.

I'm merely pointing out that wing walking is not a walk in the park for untrained personnel and using examples that are in the public domain expressing a personal desire never to be strapped onto the top of a wing:

Amanda at least had the skill to try and climb back into the cockpit when the engine caught fire: Imagine an untrained joyrider in the same situation as illustarted by the lady in OZ.

Or if as happened to the Shaw Stearman at Old Buck with an EFATO and flip over onto its back with ensuing fire.

I guess I was trying to point out some real risks to the OP>

That's all.

Edit :the system added the definition of E F A T O : I'm not trying to teach Grandma to suck eggs................;)

[stiknruda]

Cusco - we've met three times! (B, OB, LKI)

But then I'm only just approaching the dementia-zone!

Stik

[BackPacker]

Edit :the system added the definition of E F A T O : I'm not trying to teach Grandma to suck eggs................

It's done that to me too a number of times. Incredibly annoying. And I also don't understand it, as it's the only abbreviation that gets expanded. CFIT for instance is not.

Mods, do something about it!

[toptobottom]

I think you'll find the mods are behind the edit...

[Genghis the Engineer]

if you are brave enough go fo it.... personally i'm too terrified and a bit embarrassed that Girls do it and i wont:D......

You would have to have the brains of a Jeremy Kyle participant to get on the roof of a Tiger Moth...

This picture i have robbed from somewhere blatently shows people on powerful well equpped machines doing a great job for GA and wingwalking by excecuting a flawless aerial wedding.....

im sure you have all seen it before but this thread had me reaching for my razor blades so i thought i would cheer you all up....

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/Noblelordflash/973055FD-F51D-70CE-1ADCA47661573636.jpg

Much Love.....


Xxxx

I'm trying to work out how the heck he gets the ring on her finger - let alone kisses the bride?

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[Genghis the Engineer]

I think you'll find the mods are behind the edit...

Danny in one of his more whymsical moments I think. There are several that you trip over occasionally such as l-a-s-e-r (for very good reasons in that case).

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[Deeday]

such as l-a-s-e-r (for very good reasons in that case)Very good reason? please do tell. I've always wondered about that one [after which we shall end the thread drift].

[Genghis the Engineer]

Very good reason? please do tell. I've always wondered about that one [after which we shall end the thread drift].

"Well m'lud, my client could scarecely have reason to believe that shining his device at passing helicopters was illegal or dangerous, given that he bought it from an advert on a well known pilots website"

... that website having automatically attracted google adverts for pointing devices because of the use of the "L word" in several threads.

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[BackPacker]

Thread on these stupid abbreviation expansions and character substitutions now continued here:

http://www.pprune.org/computer-internet-issues-troubleshooting/453168-laser-efato-other-abbreviations.html

[smokey49]

Wingwalk Displays (01285720900) flys at Membury Airfield (J14 on the M4)
every Saturday fro April to September.:O