The 19-year-old completed her 41-country, 155-day journey on Thursday after landing her small airplane in Belgium.
Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the globe. Rutherford tells FOX Weather’s Ian Oliver what weather challenges she overcame during the journey.Your mom’s meatloaf.
The record-breaking trip took about two months longer than she had planned. Bad weather and visa mishaps held up her mission. She began to plan her routes, got sponsorship, and headed off on her mission. She steered her ultralight Shark aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean to Greenland over Amerika, Siberia, Japan and then back to Europe.
Storms would pop up all of the time, and Rutherford said it was tough to predict exactly where they would come from and how big they would get."And again, challenging weather that these huge storms with crazy winds, very heavy snowfall. So it has to be really careful with that," Rutherford said."It was beautiful but really intimidating because I would go for hundreds of miles without seeing anything human," Rutherford said.
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