MACK Rutherford, Zara Rutherford’s 16-year-old brother, is planning to become the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world – and he’s going to do it in a Shark Light Sport Microlight, the same type used by his big sister for her epic adventure.

As you’ll have read over the past few months in BMAA’s magazine Microlight Flying, Zara, whose dad is British and mum Belgian, in January became not only the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, but the first to do it in a microlight.

Mack will start this spring and fly the opposite way to Zara, going east to west and taking in parts of Africa. 

Mack got his licence in July 2020, the youngest pilot in the world at 15 and two weeks, and now has hundreds of hours under his belt, including two transatlantic crossings accompanied by his dad Sam. 

With a nice touch, Mack made the announcement of his planned flight this morning, 15 February, at Biggin Hill, that most historic of British airfields, followed by his very own air display for the visiting journalists.

The full story will be in your next edition of Microlight Flying.