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Updated: 03/19/2013 08:00:10AM
Taking wing
at Air Show
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Jane Wicker balances herself on the wing of her 450 HP Stearman aircraft.
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Wicker poses atop her plane, Aurora. She became a wing walker by answering an ad in the Washington Post.
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Jane Wicker hangs upside-down from the bottom of the wing during one of her performances.
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PUNTA GORDA — It all started with a classified ad.
Jane Wicker saw it in The Washington Post in 1990. The Flying Air Circus in Bealeton, Va., was looking for a wing walker with “no experience needed.”
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