“Work hard and move ahead to achieve your goals.”
His journey started on March 23 and has involved going through sandstorms in Sudan, intense heat in Dubai and airport closures in India.
On Monday, days before finishing his journey, Mack said that he was “trying to show that younger people could make a difference” and described the experience as “definitely Amazing”.
He additionally revealed that the feat worried him at one point sleeping in a shed beside a runway on an uninhabited Pacific island after a “furry moment” flying through rain and low cloud.
Mack Rutherford has broken Guinness World Records – he is now the youngest individual to fly around the world solo and the youngest individual to circumnavigate the globe in a microlight plane.
The previous record holder for flying solo was British Pilot Travis Ludlow; he was 18 and 150 days old when he finished his journey last year.
Mack’s ride took him through Europe, Asia, Africa, the US, oceans, and a UK touchdown at London’s Biggin Hill Airport.
The boy flew a Shark, a high-performance ultralight plane with a cruising speed achieving 300km/h (186mph).
His sister, Zara Rutherford, has been helping him along the way since she became the youngest lady to fly around the world; she turned 19 in January.
She was amongst people who greeted him following his very last landing on Wednesday.
Miss Rutherford told the Associated Press: “While he becomes flying, I continuously tried to be in contact and assist him.
The teen has desired to be a pilot since he was three years of age and qualified for his pilot licence in September 2020, at the age of 15.
His father, Sam Rutherford, is an expert ferry pilot, and his mom Beatrice is a private pilot.
