Fri Nov 26, 2021 11:51 am
#1884756
Kittyhawk wrote:There is no chase team. This is not ‘B*** in a Biplane’…
Was her father or someone else not following in a twin?
Kittyhawk wrote:There is no chase team. This is not ‘B*** in a Biplane’…
Flyzolo Team Update - Day 103
Believe it or not but Zara is still stuck in #Ayan, #Russia... There was a weather window and Zara was ready for take-off but... Her destination airfield, #Kalinka, #Gaborovsk, had too much snow on the runway.
"It has been challenging," Rutherford told reporters at Gimpo International Airport after arriving from Vladivostok in her bespoke Shark ultralight plane, the world's fastest microlight.
"I was stuck in Alaska because of visa and weather issues for a month and I was stuck in Russia for a month because of visa and weather issues," she said. "I was hoping to complete it by Christmas but I guess that’s not happening anymore, but it’s an adventure."
Rutherford, who is to remain in hotel before her planned departure for Taiwan on Monday, said she expects to complete her journey by mid-January.
With enhanced COVID-related travel restrictions, Rutherford said she has sometimes not been allowed to see local places in some countries.
"I’m seeing these places from the air and that is the most incredible thing," she said. "Although I’m not always allowed to go and visit, walk around and check out museums and restaurants, I can always see them from the air and it’s pretty incredible.”