LONDON : Siblings and solo around-the-world aviators Mack and Zara Rutherford set more records on Tuesday as they collected a trophy whose previous winners include Lewis Hamilton and Richard Branson.The British-Belgian duo are the youngest winners of the Royal Automobile Club's Segrave Trophy, first award
LONDON : Siblings and solo around-the-world aviators Mack and Zara Rutherford set more records on Tuesday as they collected a trophy whose previous winners include Lewis Hamilton and Richard Branson.
Mack, who was the world's youngest qualified pilot at 15, was only 16 when he set off from the Bulgarian capital Sofia last year to become, at 17, the youngest person to fly unaccompanied around the world. "A massive high for me was being able to fly straight over Central Park at a 1,000 feet in New York, that was really cool," Zara, who is studying electrical engineering at Stanford University, told Reuters television.
Mack, who beat the record set by 18-year-old Briton Travis Ludlow in 2021, had to land on an uninhabited island after crossing the Pacific Ocean on a trip whose itinerary had to be changed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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