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Kyle
Franklin
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Photo by
Mike Zimmerman |
Kyle
grew up living in a hangar-house in Ruidoso, NM. The hangar soon
became his favorite playground as well as a place where he and
his father shared quality time servicing Waco's, Super Cubs, and
the Aerostar. Kyle's first airplane ride was four weeks after
his birth. Father Jimmy taught him how to fly when he was eight
years old and later taught him aerobatics. As a toddler, Kyle
seized every opportunity to wing-walk in Dad's Waco Mystery Ship
as it taxied about on the ground at air shows. Kyle took his
first airborne wing-walk at age 14, and just three years later
he was wing-walking professionally at age 17.
At this point, Kyle became the
world's youngest professional wing-walker as well as half of the
only father/son wing-walking team in history. After the
transition to the Jet Waco, Kyle became the world's first and
only jet wing-walker.
Today, Kyle is still performing
as one of the youngest air show professionals in the industry.
He flies a wild and crazy wing tip dragging comedy act in his
Super Cub - and does it for fun so often that his cub needs skid
plates taped on the wingtips!
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Super Cub