BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Chip2447
Date: 17 Aug 07 - 09:47 PM

Crap, hit the wrong button...
         "I am too 'big' to undertake such a flight as I would have to be under 13 stones weight..."

         Holy shite batman, that would mean that I have to lose 13 stones weight to be under 13 stones.

Perhaps we can get use of the Spruce Goose for a short walkabout. that one Should hold us.

Chip2447(the round one)
P.S. Used to work with a little girl from Ireland who once asked me my weigh, in stones, she didn't quite get the concept of pounds. when I told her I weighed about 17 or 18 stones she nearly fell out of her seat. She claimed that no-one she knew in Ireland weighted that much. wonder what her reaction to 25 stones and a bit more today would be      today.

Chip2447)

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Chip2447
Date: 17 Aug 07 - 09:27 PM

No need for all that...
         
          "However it would appear that I am too 'big' to undertake such a flight as I would have to be under 13 stones weight...too much to think of dieting to that, at my age, and enjoying food and drink as I do."

          Just get a bigger airplane.

         "I am too 'big' to undertake such a flight as I would have to be under 13 stones weight..."

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Chorusgirl
Date: 17 Aug 07 - 02:35 PM

Must have heavy hollyhocks!!

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 17 Aug 07 - 11:14 AM

Gee thanks Bobert..you're all heart.........thanks foir trying to help anyway. However it would appear that I am too 'big' to undertake such a flight as I would have to be under 13 stones weight...too much to think of dieting to that, at my age, and enjoying food and drink as I do.
Thanks to all contributors anyway. Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Aug 07 - 08:44 AM

LOLOLOLOL!!

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Aug 07 - 08:17 AM

Nevermind, GS... No reason to travel this far just to plunge to yer death when you can plunge to yer death on yer side of the pond...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Aug 07 - 06:54 AM

It would be a long way for GS to come Bobert - he's in Lincolnshire, UK! Not many Greyhound buses on the Transatlantic run? :-) :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Cluin
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 08:45 PM

If you can't get ahold of Shatner, try John Lithgow.

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 08:34 PM

Google "Flying Circus", G-zer... It's in Faulkquier (sp) County, Va...

Short of that, if you got the $80 an hour to rent a Cesna, we can bget you walkin' in no time... Just get yer insurance apid up and a Greyhound Bus ticket to Va., bring yer $80 an hour and the glory will be all yers...

Oh, you don't wnata walk no Cesna wing??? I wouldn't either... You want to walk a lower wing of a Stetsman (sp)... Okay, that will cost you a few extra bucks...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Chorusgirl
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 06:54 PM

I've not seen any trace of his hollyhocks!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Rowan
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 06:32 PM

If you do get to do it, remember Arthur Dent.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 05:29 PM

You mean to go where no man has..........

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 03:18 PM

You really need to talk to William Shatner about this.

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 03:07 PM

Especially around the hollyhocks.....................

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 12:40 PM

Wear a parachute. Maybe just a reserve, but wear a chute. The airflow is/can be quite fierce.

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 11:58 AM

My hollyhocks? What about them?

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 09:01 AM

Bee - one deranged member thinks GS is a sex-pest and a pervert, and that he should be arrested! If she actually knew him, she'd realise what a ridiculous idea that is, and what an pillock she makes of herself in even suggesting it.

BTW - he is in antiques! But his hollyhocks don't bear thinking about! LOL!

S:0)

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 08:40 AM

mmmmmmmm interesting....antique dealing/collecting is a hobby and I have a cabinet in a prestigious Antique Centre. Have done a couple of 'firewalks' over hot coals, bungeed, abseiled,been to Romania a few times, overland, with Humanitarian aid etc etc for charity and people tell me that at my age I should not be doing these things. I am enjoying my retirement!!!!!!
My doctor told me I have the heart of a thirty year old but when I asked him if he could do anything about the body....well......
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Bee
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 07:27 AM

Good Lord! This reinforces for me once again that you cannot really guess anything about people from limited interaction on a forum. I would never have guessed Georgiansilver was into such daredevil activities - Maybe it's the handle, Georgiansilver, but I pictured you more as an antique collecting type with a nice little garden full of Hollyhocks!

Good luck and do hang on!

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: The PA
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 03:25 AM

Or e.mail

[e-mail]

that all.

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: The PA
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 03:19 AM

Or :

www.georgewalkerevents.co.uk

just dont ask me how I know these things !!! Any one else up for something mad?

Good luck

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: The PA
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 03:17 AM

Try

www.extremedreams.co.uk

they may be able to help

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 02:51 AM

Thanks for the info so far. It is actually quite frustrating as nothing has worked so far. I had already tried the Utterly Butterly (team Guinot) source but they do not allow money raising for charity.
Any further suggestions will be welcomed....anyone any contacts?
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Greg B
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 08:19 PM

Wingwalking on a Tiger Moth?

Oh HELL no!

You want a Stearman. You REALLY want a Stearman.

On the other hand, I've flown a couple of Stearmans but
never a Moth, Tiger or otherwise. For the pilot, the
Moths must be more fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 07:54 PM

Thanks, Cluin! I thought it was going to be from that movie where the airplane is loaded with the stoneworks of an old castle, being taken to the states and a gargoyle comes alive on the wing. Can't remember the name of it.

Georgiansilver, here are a couple of links:

wingwalking;

HERE's their pdf info about what they can offer;

and, HERE is one man's experience, apparently with Utterly Butterly, as mentioned above.

Good luck and DO hang on!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: bobad
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 07:06 PM

Remember DAEDALUS and ICARUS.

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: skipy
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 06:49 PM

I'm guessing here, but possibly on the upper mainplane of a biplane.
Skipy (aircraft engineer)

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Flatpick
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 06:30 PM

Try the Utterly Butterly folks ....I don't know their website in UK, but they certainly encourage wingwalking

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 05:38 PM

Yikes!!

Mike, be sure you remember the First Rule of Wing-Walking (also works for changing jobs):    Don't let go with one hand until you've got a firm grip on something with the other!

Don Firth (I get a nose-bleed just thinking about it!)

Subject: RE: BS: Wingwalk..where can I do one?
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 05:14 PM

There's........... something on the wing!

Subject: BS: Wingwalk..UK.where can I do one?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 04:20 PM

Many of you know that I do charity work of one sort or another...firewalking etc....so I want to do a 'wingwalk' but am not sure who I contact to arrange one. If anyone knows of a company or individual who might facilitate this could you please either PM me or let me know on here.
Thanks and Best wishes, Mike.