A basketball-mad grandmother with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) who has made an inspirational return to the court is to be strapped to the outside of an airplane in a bid to raise funds to compete in a top international tournament.
Karen Fulton, 63, initially wanted to be fired out of a cannon for he incredibly daring effort to raise 3,000 – the majority of which will go to a cancer charity.
However, when that plan was thwarted Karen, originally from Gorton and who lived in Reddish for 20 years, decided to take on a wing walk instead. READ MORE: Woman who spent months fighting for her life in hospital among 420 neighbours who won £8m In just a few weeks' time, she will be attached to the wing of a Boeing Stearman Biplane for over 10 minutes as it rises to a height of 15,00 feet and travels at speeds of up to 135 mph above an airfield in Yorkshire.
Mum-of-two and grandma-of-three Karen wants to raise money for the charity Breast Cancer Now as her family has been touched by it.
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