Mack and Zara Rutherford are winners of the prestigious Royal Automobile Club’s Segrave Trophy. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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.
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