News Forum - Zara heads for Phuket in her quest to be the youngest woman to fly around the world, solo

[Thaiger]

Zara Rutherford arrives in Phuket next week. In a plane. In her own plane. Alone. The 19 year old is dropping into Phuket (maybe ‘dropping’ is the wrong word) as part of her ground-breaking around-the-world journey in a microlight/ultralight plane. She flew out of Belgium, heading west, in August this year, to fly solo around the world flying in a small two-person light aircraft. When she completes her journey Zara will be the youngest woman ever to fly solo around the world, and the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a microlight. Currently Zara is approximately 3/4 […]

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[BIGGLES]

Excellent effort to date outstanding level of determination.

Good luck with your endeavours!

PER ARDUA AD ASTRA

[JamesE]

From the article: "Currently Zara is approximately 3/4 through her epic journey. It hasn’t all been fluffy white clouds and blue skies, however, with a precarious crossing from Iceland to Greenland where she ended up only a few hundred metres above the Atlantic as she was forced down by a low cloud cover. She also had a few visa issues as she flew through Russia which slowed her progress."

Not sure how one gets from a precarious Iceland to Greenland leg to having visa issues in Russia. Was the trip to Greenland even more of a disaster than low cloud cover?

[Alavan]

12 hours ago, JamesE said:

From the article: "Currently Zara is approximately 3/4 through her epic journey. It hasn’t all been fluffy white clouds and blue skies, however, with a precarious crossing from Iceland to Greenland where she ended up only a few hundred metres above the Atlantic as she was forced down by a low cloud cover. She also had a few visa issues as she flew through Russia which slowed her progress."

Not sure how one gets from a precarious Iceland to Greenland leg to having visa issues in Russia. Was the trip to Greenland even more of a disaster than low cloud cover?

If you saw the map you could see that from Greenland she flew to the American continent.
From Alaska she flew to Russia (it is not that far, a US Vice-President candidate could see it through her kitchen window).

 

[JamesE]

5 hours ago, Alavan said:

If you saw the map you could see that from Greenland she flew to the American continent.
From Alaska she flew to Russia (it is not that far, a US Vice-President candidate could see it through her kitchen window).

Yes, yes, yes... I saw the map, but the joke is in the narrative "Iceland-Greenland-Russia" not in the actual "Iceland-Greenland-North America-South America-Russia"...

That would assume that said lunatic was ever actually in the kitchen.