98-Year-Old WWII Veteran Sets Wing Walking World Record

98-Year-Old WWII Veteran Sets Wing Walking World Record

World War II veteran Harry Heasman officially became the world’s oldest wing walker at age 98, standing atop a flying aircraft for over nine minutes at more than 1,000 feet above Duxford Airfield in Cambridge, England on Saturday. A Guinness World Records adjudicator certified the achievement on-site. “I have dreamed of doing this since I was a young child and to finally live that dream at 98 years old and to be a Guinness World Records title holder is beyond anything I could have ever imagined,” Heasman told Guinness World Records. The British nonagenarian trained with a physical instructor for eleven months to prepare physically and mentally for the record attempt. His feat raised funds for the Lennox Children’s Cancer Fund and honored his late wife and son, both cancer victims. “Harry is proof that it is never too late to chase a dream,” said fund representative Lindsey Bidwell. Story URL