Kyle Franklin

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!