95-year-old Brit becomes the world's oldest WING WALKER

95-year-old Brit becomes the world's oldest WING WALKER

pA 95-year-old British great-grandfather has became the world's oldest wing walker.ppIvor Button took to the skies yesterday (9) strapped to the top of a plane which took off from Staverton Airport, in Gloucestershire.ppHe beat the previous record set by late Tom Lackey, who was 93 when he performed the stunt in 2013.ppWidower Ivor said: ''I’m of sound mind!pp"I was not scared. I was more concerned about getting cold.''ppIvor, who has 17 grandchildren and step grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, is not new to skyward ventures - having already enjoyed gliding, ballooning and micro-lighting.ppHe was hit with the flying bug early on - in 1932 when he was six years old his parents took him to Sir Alan Cobham’s Flying Circus.ppIt gave thousands of people their first-ever flying experience - in an age when flying was outside the experience of most people.ppDad-of-four Ivor, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, said: “They paid ten shillings for all of us to go up in an open cockpit aircraft.pp''I was so small I couldn’t see over the cockpit, but I must have been strapped in.pp“I was most disappointed when I went back to school the next day. They didn’t believe me, but I just loved it.”brppAccording to Guinness World Records, the previous oldest wing walker was Thomas Lackey.ppHe was aged 93 years and 100 days when completed a wing walk between Stranraer, Scotland, and Derry, Northern Ireland, in 2013.ppTom landed safely at City of Derry airport after a one-hour, 21-minute journey across the Irish Sea.ppIvor's sky-high adventure raised money charity Ataxia UK - a condition which affects co-ordination, balance and speech, and is suffered by some of Ivor's family.ppIn most cases there's no cure for ataxia and supportive treatment to control the symptoms is necessary.


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