Elizabeth Bromage, known to friends and family as Betty, has kept her title as the world's oldest wing walker at age 97, entering the Guinness World Records for a second time. The British woman broke her own previous record, set four years earlier.
She received her certification to applause. Bromage told the BBC that wing walking was something different, and that she would be bored otherwise.
Bromage said the hard part was getting up onto the plane, but that once there it was easy, and that amusement park rides were far worse.
Because of her age, Bromage remains still during the flight while the aircraft performs stunts at full speed. Speaking on "Good Morning Britain" the day after her flight, she said she had a few bruises but was fine. She said that at 97 she had nothing left to be afraid of, and insisted the words "I can't" were not part of her vocabulary.
Ten years of wing walking
Bromage discovered wing walking ten years ago and has now flown six times. She told the BBC that as people age, they can't go certain places, can't do certain things, can't drive, can't see well, and that her own poor eyesight frustrates her, so she wants to keep doing what she still can.
She flew on Tuesday, August 4, in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, to raise funds for the hospital service that treated her after a stroke last year. She is already thinking about what she might do to mark her 100th birthday, calling it something special.
