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It seems to me that the main/default article for "Wing walking" should be the kind with the biplanes, not the relationship pattern. Kufat 08:16, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I should have put it on wikitionary. A good article on the history and such for the biplane activity would be nice, with the mention of the decision making thing for completeness... but without pictures and that history this shouldn't be here. Jdblick I don't know how to put in a timestamp... yours is off anyways.

I don't like that the concept of wing walking decision making is too academic to be put on wikipedia. I think it is a very important way of describing how people make decisions, fundamental even. 06:57, 17 October 2009 (UTC) user:jdblick

RDAC

this is a good US government site on wing walking - if someone could edit in some facts that'd be nice as editing near bedtime=bad article. - AMP'd 03:49, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Right. And you can use the pix as they are US gov't. That is where I got that one from. --Justanother 04:07, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've improved the article with that link. I'm hoping there is a sauce somewhere that talks about why people don't wing walk anymore, either because of legal and financial restrictions, or because of the fact that modern planes go much faster. Also, [[Image:Ormer Locklear Wing Walking.jpg]] is a good picture that I uploaded; find a good place to put it. I'm going to bed. V-Man737 07:13, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another quick google search turns up a lot of places that seem to be offering wing walking for charities. Methinks wing walking is still possible, you just need an old plane. - AMP'd 15:58, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is this modern "wing-walking" practiced as a spiritual improvement activity like swimming with dolphins or fire-walking. I will do something with it later but anyone else is more that welcome to jusp on it sooner it they like. --Justanother 15:39, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Modern wing walking

We can work on the modern aspects here. Still looking for non-commercial RS but these below give you a good idea of what is out there.

Also, as I mentioned, there is the "self-knowledge" (or thrill-seeking) thing that is done, I think. Here we learn something about legality of such in the UK. --Justanother 22:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.salthillairshow.com/barnstormers/airshow_barnstormers.html also some history
http://www.generalaviationnews.com/editorial/articledetail.lasso?-token.key=3285&-token.src=feature&-nothing RS, yeah
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/focus/2004/03/wingwalk.shtml BBC, yeah!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/4708621.stm and again!!
http://www.airventure.org/2006/performers/gene_soucy.html EAA is a decent source
http://airshow.aviation.ca/content/view/62/53/ Prolly OK too though check out the author (smile); wonder if Gene Soucy has an article here or should?

--Justanother 22:53, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.icasfoundation.org/ --Justanother 22:59, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wingwalking is not dead

The article is written as if wingwalking is obviously too dangerous to be done any more, but in fact it is still performed in the U.S. to the present day. Or perhaps it "still" is the wrong word and it first faded out and then returned; I don't know, which means I can't put this into the article very well. This article describes how it is practiced today, but does not make much reference to anything before the 1970s:

Debbie Gary (2008). "My Wingwalker". Air & Space / Smithsonian: pp. 42–47. ISSN 0886-2257. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

(Currently the article is also available online here.)

Earlier I tried mashing this cite into the existing article and adding a "cleanup" tag, but that was the wrong procedure. So now I'm citing it here where it belongs and adding a "dubious" tag on the last part of the article, but really the tone of the whole thing needs to be fixed.

--207.176.159.90 (talk) 21:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Skydiving

As per my recent addition, we might want to note that skydivers do a considerable amount of "wing walking" as part of their sport. Indeed, the static line training method when used with the C-182 aircraft has the student first stand on a specially constructed step outside the aircraft door and then hang free by the wing-strut until signaled to let go. Also skydiving camera fliers routinely exit the aircraft and stand on a very narrow step while hanging on to an externally mounted hand rail. This is how they achieve those beautiful tandem student exit shots. Lastly, skydivers exit en-masse will usually put "floaters" outside the aircraft in order to accomodate more jumpers in the door. Indeed, the number of floaters (I've seen up to six floaters - but I'm sure others have seen more) can cause some center of gravity issues and requires an experienced jump pilot. I mention all this here because I'd be curious to know how other editors might want to accomodate this information into the body of the article. I've performed each of these maneuvers many times, and it sure feels like "wing walking" to me. And it's as cool as heck to watch from vantage point of another aircraft, too. Rklawton (talk) 15:09, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wingwalkers who perished

Is there anyway to know the names of the eight who perished? I've been told one of my relatives died this way - not having any luck proving it so far.

THanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mslisa99 (talk • contribs) 22:42, 27 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rule

The first rule of wing walking is never let go of anything until you have a firm grip on something else.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 15:17, 2 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]