A 95-year-old British great-grandfather has became the world's oldest wing walker.Ivor Button took to the skies yesterday (9) strapped to the top of a plane which took off from Staverton Airport, in Gloucestershire.He beat the previous record set by late Tom Lackey, who was 93 when he performed the stunt in 2013.Widower Ivor said: ''I’m of sound mind!"I was not scared. I was more concerned about getting cold.''Ivor, who has 17 grandchildren and step grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, is not new to skyward ventures - having already enjoyed gliding, ballooning and micro-lighting.He was hit with the flying bug early on - in 1932 when he was six years old his parents took him to Sir Alan Cobham’s Flying Circus.It gave thousands of people their first-ever flying experience - in an age when flying was outside the experience of most people.Dad-of-four Ivor, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, said: “They paid ten shillings for all of us to go up in an open cockpit aircraft.''I was so small I couldn’t see over the cockpit, but I must have been strapped in.“I was most disappointed when I went back to school the next day. They didn’t believe me, but I just loved it.”
According to Guinness World Records, the previous oldest wing walker was Thomas Lackey.He was aged 93 years and 100 days when completed a wing walk between Stranraer, Scotland, and Derry, Northern Ireland, in 2013.Tom landed safely at City of Derry airport after a one-hour, 21-minute journey across the Irish Sea.Ivor's sky-high adventure raised money charity Ataxia UK - a condition which affects co-ordination, balance and speech, and is suffered by some of Ivor's family.In most cases there's no cure for ataxia and supportive treatment to control the symptoms is necessary.