19-year-old Zara Rutherford becomes the youngest woman to fly around the world solo

Most 1 -year-olds are still trying to perfect their driving skills. But ara utherford had her eyes set a little higher. The British-Belgian teenager wanted to be the youngest woman to y around the world solo. On anuary 22, 2022, utherford ful lled her lifelong dream when she successfully landed her two-seat ultralight aircraft back at the Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in Belgium, where she departed from 155 days ago.

utherford s historic ight broke Shaesta Waiz s ve-year-old record. The Afghan-American pilot was 30 when she completed the solo around-the-world excursion in 2017. The teenager is also the youngest person to make the epic journey in a microlight plane and the rst Belgian to do so.