Erendira Wallenda plans helicopter stunt over Niagara Falls
![ba28dd43-erendira wallenda_1468596366250_1629568_ver1.0_640_360_1497538767875-403440.jpg](https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox35orlando.com/www.fox35orlando.com/content/uploads/2019/09/764/432/erendira20wallenda_1468596366250_1629568_ver1.0_640_360_1497538767875_3558641_ver1.0_640_360.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - The aerialist wife of daredevil Nik Wallenda is preparing for a stunt that will have her hanging by her teeth from a helicopter over Niagara Falls.
Thursday morning's performance comes on the fifth anniversary of Nik Wallenda's televised high-wire walk over Niagara Falls.
Plans call for Erendira (AR'-en-deer-uh) Wallenda to be tethered by her waist as she performs a series of maneuvers on a hoop suspended from a helicopter 300 feet (91 meters) above the water. At one point she'll hang from her toes. At another, her teeth.
The Wallendas say the stunt will break a height record Nik Wallenda set in 2011 when he hung by his teeth 250 feet (76 meters) above Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.
The Niagara County Legislature set aside $35,000 for the act last month.