France 24 is not responsible for the content of external websites. Teenage pilot Zara Rutherford took her ultralight sports plane into the skies on Wednesday on the first leg of a country, five-continent flight around the world. The intrepid year-old British-Belgian dreams one day of becoming an astronaut, but for now her goal is to become the youngest woman to circumnavigate the planet flying solo. The first leg was a short hop across the Channel from her Belgian home town of Kortrijk to England. Her three-month voyage will then take her over oceans, deserts and the vast Siberian wilderness. She will try to avoid daunting main air hubs -- apart from New York's busy JFK airport -- in her tiny kilogramme pound Shark UL prop plane, and touch down instead on smaller airports and airfields for overnight rests and refuelling. She will be on her own for flights lasting five to six hours. She has secured permission to visit countries including Greenland, Honduras, Saudi Arabia and Myanmar.
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Zara Rutherford is attempting to become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo, and one of her first stops was Happy Valley-Goose Bay, where she landed on Monday. The Belgian-British pilot's three-month journey will take her across five continents and 52 countries. Rutherford, now 19, grew up around airplanes. Her parents are both pilots, and she got her own licence when she was just Apparently, my first flight was when I was three months old," she said. She's always dreamed of flying around the world, she added, and her parents supported her when she told them what she wanted to do. Rutherford trained extensively before beginning her journey last week, accompanying her father on flights across the Atlantic Ocean.
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With her parents looking on, year-old Zara Rutherford took off from an airstrip in Kortrijk, western Belgium in gusty, overcast conditions. Rutherford is aiming to break the record set by American aviator Shaesta Waiz, who was 30 when she set the world benchmark in I am also in a bit of disbelief. I think my next step is to check the weather again," she told The Associated Press before takeoff. I am not sure that will work. Rutherford hails from a family of pilots.
With her parents looking on, year-old Zara Rutherford took off from an airstrip in Kortrijk, western Belgium in gusty, overcast conditions. Rutherford is aiming to break the record set by American aviator Shaesta Waiz, who was 30 when she set the world benchmark in I am also in a bit of disbelief. I am not sure that will work. Rutherford hails from a family of pilots. She said she wants to inspire girls and young women to get into aviation and encourage them to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics; also known as STEM. The Shark is too small for long-distance flying over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
