Nineteen-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thursday 155 days after she departed.
Home! And no longer alone. The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thursday 155 days after she departed. She made it count for herself, her family and dedicated it to all young…
On Thursday, at age 19, Zara Rutherford earned the Guinness World Record for the youngest woman to complete a solo flight around the globe, ending her 155-day journey through the skies of the world by touching down in her home country, Belgium.
The 19-year-old British-Belgian aviator used her gap year after high school to break two Guinness World records, becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in a microlight aircraft and the youngest woman to make such a journey.