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At 99, she became the world's oldest wing-walker
Her niece saw it on the news. Then she made a call.
A 99-year-old woman named Helga Duffy was strapped to the top of a small plane at Rendcomb Airfield in Gloucestershire, England this week and became the world's oldest wing-walker, according to Guinness World Records. She broke a record set only three months earlier by a 97-year-old, Betty Bromage, after Duffy's niece saw the news and staff at her care facility urged her to try. "I had no idea what it was," Duffy said of the stunt. She has arthritis and a bad right knee, and she spent more than five minutes in the air anyway. A former nurse, she described the sensation at a thousand meters as unlike anything else. "I felt so good, I thought, 'is this like if you take drugs?' I'm sure it is." An adjudicator met her on the ground with a certificate. The flight raised over 1,600 pounds for the regional Air Ambulance charity. Bromage, meanwhile, says she plans to reclaim the title at 100.
