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I’ve been stuck in Quibdó (...

fly.zolo 2021/09/06 00:10:21

I’ve been stuck in Quibdó (Colombia) for a couple days. I was headed towards Tumaco which is further south but decided to land at the nearest airfield as the weather was slowly worsening. Quibdó happened to be the closest airfield, it also happens to be the rainiest city on Earth…

The people here were incredible a...


FlyZolo Team Update - Day 19 And ...

fly.zolo 2021/09/05 11:15:33

FlyZolo Team Update - Day 19
And more changes of plans, as that is the nature of the beast... Zara has reached Quibdo, Colombia and will be making her way back today, probably via Cartagena, depending on weather, then #Panama tomorrow.

With this, Zara reaches a huge milestone in her record-breaking attempt. This is...

FlyZolo Team Update - Day 19
And more changes of plans, as that is the nature of the beast... Zara has reached Quibdo, Colombia and will be making her way back today, probably via Cartagena, depending on weather, then #Panama tomorrow.

With this, Zara reaches a huge milestone in her record-breaking attempt. This is the first antipodal point in her quest to be the youngest woman in history to fly solo around the world in a small aircraft.

The Guinness World Record guidelines require people circumnavigating the globe to pass through two approximate antipodal points, i.e. two locations on opposite geographical sides of the Earth. The goal of the adventure therefore is to fly from one point on the globe to another, imagining that you pierce the earth from one point to another as you would pierce an orange through its center. Zara had originally chosen to pass through Tumaco, Colombia and Jambi, Indonesia. It will now be Quibdo and a new antipodal point in Indonesia, Jakarta, where she plans to arrive mid-October.

So far she has already crossed the Atlantic, stopped in Iceland and Greenland, flown through Canada, the East Coast of the USA and south through the Caribbean to Colombia. Next she will head north via Alaska to Russia, China, Indonesia, India and via the Middle East back to Belgium, where she hopes to arrive early November.

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FlyZolo Team Update - Day 19 And ...

Flyzolo 2021/09/05 10:54:23

FlyZolo Team Update - Day 19
And more changes of plans, as that is the nature of the beast... Zara has reached Quibdo, Colombia and will be making her way back today, probably via #Cartagena, depending on weather, then Panama tomorrow.

With this, Zara reaches a huge #milestone in her record-breaking attempt. This i...

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FlyZolo Team Update - Day 19 And ...

Flyzolo 2021/09/05 10:54:23

FlyZolo Team Update - Day 19
And more changes of plans, as that is the nature of the beast... Zara has reached Quibdo, Colombia and will be making her way back today, probably via #Cartagena, depending on weather, then Panama tomorrow.

With this, Zara reaches a huge #milestone in her record-breaking attempt. This i...

Timeline photos

Had to land in Quibdo (Colombia) ...

Flyzolo 2021/09/03 23:14:06

Had to land in Quibdo (Colombia) because of bad weather!

Wanted to say a huge thank you to Richard Branson for letting me stay on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. Loved talking to Richard about his adventures in his hot air balloon (flying over the Atlantic!!) and really enjoyed the paddle boarding and ...


Had to land in Quibdo (Colombia) ...

fly.zolo 2021/09/03 22:50:14

Had to land in Quibdo (Colombia) because of bad weather!

Wanted to say a huge thank you to @richardbranson for letting me stay on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. Loved talking to Richard about his adventures in his hot air balloon (flying over the Atlantic!!) and really enjoyed the paddle boarding and ...


Made it to Colombia!!! Was a ...

Sam Rutherford 2021/09/03 02:53:52

Made it to Colombia!!! Was a long 6 hour flight but super easy cruising at 8500 feet and had a 10kt tailwind later on in the trip.

Thank you so much for the amazing welcome in Barranquilla! It’s a shame I can’t stay longer but looking forward to seeing Tumaco tomorrow - my first antipodal point!

#colombia #sout...


Made it to Colombia!!! Was a ...

Flyzolo 2021/09/03 01:13:24

Made it to Colombia!!! Was a long 6 hour flight but super easy cruising at 8500 feet and had a 10kt tailwind later on in the trip.

Thank you so much for the amazing welcome in Barranquilla! It’s a shame I can’t stay longer but looking forward to seeing Tumaco tomorrow - my first antipodal point!

#colombia #sout...


Made it to Colombia!!! Was a ...

fly.zolo 2021/09/03 01:10:53

Made it to Colombia!!! Was a long 6 hour flight but super easy cruising at 8500 feet and had a 10kt tailwind later on in the trip.

Thank you so much for the amazing welcome in Barranquilla! It’s a shame I can’t stay longer but looking forward to seeing Tumaco tomorrow - my first antipodal point!

#colombia #sout...


FlyZolo Team Update - Day 16 Whilst ...

fly.zolo 2021/09/02 13:53:38

FlyZolo Team Update - Day 16
Whilst Zara Rutherford is hoping to inspire girls and young women to follow their dreams and reach for the sky, let's talk about the "National Women's Air Derby", also known as the "Powder Puff Derby".
More than 80 years ago, in 1929, 20 women took to the skies in a women's only Air Race...

FlyZolo Team Update - Day 16
Whilst Zara Rutherford is hoping to inspire girls and young women to follow their dreams and reach for the sky, let's talk about the "National Women's Air Derby", also known as the "Powder Puff Derby".
More than 80 years ago, in 1929, 20 women took to the skies in a women's only Air Race. The race took 9 days from Santa Monica, California to Cleveland, Ohio, where 15 women arrived. One of them was Amelia Earhart. 
The planes had none of the safety features of airplanes today: very few to no instruments, no gps, no lights. House keys were sometimes hung in the cockpit to see where was up and where was down.  During the race, Marvel Crosson crashed in the Gila River Valley and was killed. There was a public outcry demanding the race be canceled, but the pilots got together and decided the most fitting tribute would be to finish the derby.
Blanche Noyes had to put out a fire that erupted in mid-air over Pecos, but continued on. Margaret Perry caught typhoid fever. Pancho Barnes crashed into a car that drove onto the runway as she was trying to land, wrecking her airplane. Ruth Nichols also crashed. Claire Fahy's wing wires were eaten through, possibly sabotaged with acid; she withdrew from the race.
The women not only had to have great piloting skills, they also needed to be accomplished mechanics to keep their planes flying.
By the time they arrived in Cleveland, an estimated 18,000 people had gathered to greet the pilots at the end of the race. 

Watch an amazing excerpt of Heather Taylor's 2010 documentary "Breaking Through The Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby", here: https://ecs.page.link/xnoCn.

And listen to an amazing podcast about the Air Race here: AirSpace Ep.11:The Ninety-Nines https://ecs.page.link/ZVwkg.

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