We’d all like to think that we’ll age well, but can we dream of aging as well as Betty Bromage? Bromage is a wing walking daredevil at 88, she has broken the record of oldest woman to wing walk at 87, then again at 88. This woman’s outlook on life is incredible and something we all should strive for.
A Wing Walking Daredevil at 88
When Bromage moved into an assisted-living community she was trying to think of something to do. Bromage is not one to slow down or get stuck in her ways. She had first considered skydiving, but there was something about wing walking that was calling her name. To her, the idea of being strapped to the wing of a bright-yellow 1944 Boeing–Stearman captured her imagination. Boy, did it make her daring. After her first time doing it, she requested for more excitement, so the pilot did a loop-de-loop!
Of course, being a daredevil doesn’t mean she is unsafe. Not only does the pilot make sure that everything is secure but Bromage is strapped in with a harness. She even got the okay from her doctor, who now has a portrait of her on a wing to show other patients. Plus according to her:
“You’re warned at the beginning that it’s a potentially dangerous activity and things could go wrong, but I said: ‘Well, at 88 what does it matter? You’ve got to go sometime; you might as well go in a blaze of glory.'”
Read more about this amazing lady here.