Tom Lackey, 93 from Shirley, West Midlands will attempt his 31st wing walk in March 2014 from Morocco to the rock of Gibraltar in aid of Cancer Research.

 

Tom has raised over £1 million for several charities and currently holds nine Guinness world records relating to aerobatics. He was featured on BBC television during August 2013 when he successfully completed his most daring wing walk to date, across the Irish Sea from Castle Kennedy in Scotland to the City of Derry airport in Ireland. He flew for 81 minutes strapped to a Boeing Stearman.

 

Tom worked until he was 79 as the owner of a successful building company that had been previously established by his father. It traded for over 100 years until Tom retired in 2000 and began the pursuit of a pilot’s license. Tom completed the majority of his training but, due to his age, he was not allowed to fly solo. Wing walking thus appealed as a daredevil sport and in fourteen years has achieved nine world records and wing walked 30 times.

When on terra firma, Tom uses a TGA ‘Superlight’ mobility scooter to get around, including getting to local boating lake where he regularly rows to keep fit.  He commented “I do hope my latest presentations after my wing walking endeavour delivers as many donations as possible for Cancer Research and once I’ve landed, I’ll begin planning the next.”