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Flyzolo Team Update - Day 155 If ...

Dimitar Dimitrov 20/01/2022 07:30:25

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Flyzolo Team Update - Day 155
If all goes according to plan and weather permitting ?:, Zara, at 19 years old, will be landing in Wevelgem-Kortrijk, #Belgium, today after having circumnavigated the globe in a small airplane. ? ✈?

We would like to share already a few random facts about her epic #journey that will have lasted more than 5 months ? ? :

*️⃣ Official Guinness World Records broken:
1. The youngest person to circumnavigate by aircraft solo (female) is 19 years 199 days, achieved by Zara Rutherford (Belgium, b. 5 July 2002), on 20 January 2022

2. The youngest person to circumnavigate solo by microlight is 19 years 199 days, achieved by Zara Rutherford (Belgium, b. 5 July 2002), on 20 January 2022

*️⃣ #Guinness World Record requirements: Zara had to include one pair of antipodals (points diametrically perfectly opposite to each other on the globe). On 3rd September 2021 she visited the first antipodal: Quibdo, Colombia (the wettest city on Earth). On 21st December she visited the second antipodal: Jakarta, Indonesia.

*️⃣ Zara is also the first Belgian ?? to have circumnavigated the world flying solo.

*️⃣ Aircraft: Shark.aero one of the fastest ultralight aircraft in the world (up to 300 km/h), designed with help of Czech engineers, produced in Slovakia.

*️⃣ Facts and Figures:
Total distance: 52,080.3 km (28,121 nautical miles)
Total time in the air: 260 hours
Takeoffs and landings: 71 (69 stops, including 10 diversions to an airfield other than planned; 2 returns to the same airfield)
Longest flight: 2000 km (1080 nautical miles)
Longest flight over water: 1861 km (1005 nautical miles)
Highest altitude: 4200 meters (13,800 ft), over Greenland
Continents visited: 5
Countries visited: 41
Highest temperature in flight: +36°C (Colombia)
Lowest temperature in flight: -25°C (Ayan, Siberia, Russia), dropping to -35°C at night

*️⃣ Safety: Zara received advice from experienced pilots at all times. She was in contact with the flight operations team through the Iridium Communications satellite system and via YB Tracking. She had a personal locator beacon (PLB) with satellite connection, survival suit and a life-raft in case of landing in water. The Shark Aero is equipped with an integrated parachute.

*️⃣ FlyZolo Team: Zara received invaluable help from hundreds of people in all locations along her route. She would particularly like to thank the British and Belgian governments and all her sponsors. At all times she could also get assistance from her ground team based in Europe: https://flyzolo.com/meet-the-team/

*️⃣ Sponsors: Zara would like to thank her main sponsor ICDSoft, her logo sponsors, Shark.aero, TMC, Virgin, Elgi Equipments Limited, SafeSky and all others which you will find here: https://flyzolo.com/partners/

*️⃣ Mission: With her flight Zara wants to encourage girls and young women to pursue their dreams and reduce the gender gap in aviation as well as in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (#STEM).

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