British pensioner becomes world's oldest wing walker just days before 99th birthday

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British pensioner becomes world's oldest wing walker just days before 99th birthday.

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A British pensioner has set a new Guinness World Record as the oldest man to complete a wing walk, just days before his 99th birthday.Harry Heasman, 98, took to the skies on Saturday above the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire - standing astride a 1940s biplane.Mr Heasman was airborne for approximately six minutes, reaching a height of 1,000 metres.He was strapped in with a perch to lean against during the flight.Martyn Carrington, his pilot from Ethel Dares Wing Walking, said he was proud to be involved in the project - which saw him leapfrog previous record-holder John Symmonds, who achieved the feat at 95.The 98-year-old's connection to aviation stretches back 85 years to World War Two.As a 14-year-old, he left school to work in a furniture factory that had been converted for wartime production.The facility manufactured gliders and the Mosquito bomber, which was constructed largely from wood.These aircraft were later deployed in the D-Day landings, in which his brother...

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