Wing walking Totally Explained

Everything about Wing Walking totally explained

Seen in airshows and barnstorming during the 1920s, wing walking is the act of moving on the wings of an airplane during flight.
Wing walking was seen as an extreme form of barnstorming, and wing walkers would constantly take up challenges of outdoing each other. They themselves admitted (or rather proclaimed proudly) that the point of their trade was to make money on the audience's prospect of possibly watching someone die.
Barnstorming and wingwalking might today be termed extreme sports and the inherent hazards proved deadly for many participants. Eight wing walkers died in a relatively short period during the infancy of wing walking and even the great Ormer Locklear himself perished in 1920 while performing a stunt for a film. Eventually, the US Government made wing walking below 1500 feet illegal, effectively making it impossible for spectators to watch wing walkers. As wing walkers struggled to work their way around legal and financial restrictions, the act faded from existence, with a few remnants in the 1950s and 1960s.

Other uses of the term

Another meaning of "wing walker" is a member of an airport ground crew whose primary job function is to walk alongside an aircraft's wing tip during towing or taxiing to ensure that the aircraft doesn't collide with any objects on the ground.

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