FLYING 50,000km solo around the world in a single engine micro plane is a high-risk undertaking, even veteran pilots admit and respect her courage.
But 19-year old British-Belgian Zara Rutterford who is out to set a world record as the youngest woman to do that, says ‘doing something a bit crazy’ like this is part of her ultimate dream. “I think it is one of those ultimate things one can dream of!”
The day she decided to make Kota Kinabalu as a stopover for this epic marathon aviation journey, it was precisely this somewhat ‘crazy big stuff that fired up the imagination of both layman and pilots