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US teen Matt Buthmiller breaks Aussie pilot Ryan Campbell?s record for youngest person to fly solo around the world | News.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/us-teen-matt-buthmiller-breaks-aussie-pilot-ryan-campbells-record-for-youngest-person-to-fly-solo-around-the-world/story-e6frfq80-1226990409614)

Trying to upstage our own Ryan C ?? :eek:

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Trying to? :confused:

I think he already has done so. :D

Did it in a real aeroplane too! :E

When he touched down at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, California he was 10 days younger than Campbell when he set his record last year.

Anyone out there at least a day younger than Matt want to give it a go?

[smiling monkey]

Did it in a real aeroplane too!

Looks like a B58 Baron in the background?

And I love the way how he's trying to ignore his mum in the photo .. just like how a normal teenager seen in public with his mum would .. lol

[TBM-Legend]

Well done...

[no B58 with tip tanks...more like a B36]

[50 50]

Surprised he can move with all the gold on his shoulders. I only know one clown that wears more, and it includes some type of sheriff star.

[Stationair8]

More bars than the Hong Kong Hilton!

Well done to the young bloke, most 19 year olds couldn't organise a beer in a brewery.

[Wally Mk2]

Great effort there:ok:

One has to wonder how these youngsters get the funding for such an adventure. I'd say there would be plenty of enthusiastic drivers out there wanting to do the same thing but have no funds.
Am not saying it's a handful but with GPS, A/P & $$$$ can't be that difficult:-)

Wmk2

p.s....SE over that much water! OMG hero stuff, should have 6 x gold bars:E

[Jabawocky]

Ryan Campbell is a very down to earth young adult and a man of humility. Ryan was logging a few hours in the Retard Vehicle on Sunday and around our dinner table Sunday night he was explaining how he was very pleased to see Matt achieve the same goal he did a year before.

He was genuinely pleased. I watched his body language and expressions, he was genuine and not bunging it on.

If there is one young Australian we can all be proud of, and not just for flying the globe it is Ryan Campbell. :D

Well done to Matt for joining a very elite club :ok:

[Humbly Reserved]

Glad to see such apt people keep raising the bar with this record, well done.

And a wee bit jealous how such an accomplishment was set by an individual so young.

Makes me think to what I was doing at 19 years of age :E:E:E

I always had a lot of respect for Ryan, although IMO he comes off with a bit of an ego (which is expected and deserved I might add) with his reply to Matts record. It's probably just me, but I would've taken off my sunnies when making that video and sat up straight. Although I greatly admire him for acknowledging Matt so soon after his completion.

Hopefully get to hear more about them and their accomplishments in the near future

HAK

[Jack Ranga]

although IMO he comes off with a bit of an ego


You couldn't be more wrong.

[Subversive1]

I dont mean to rain on anyone's parade, but this isn't 1927, and I see little point in either of these flights.

Stationair8, you say most 19 year olds couldn't organise a beer in a brewery. I have known 19 year olds who were among the first boots on the ground in East Timor after the independence violence, who have earned OAMs or bravery medals for saving lives during natural disasters, and who volunteer their time to make a practical difference in their community.

I am sure Ryan is not a bad young bloke, but I'd still rank his achievement well below the above examples.

[A Squared]

[no B58 with tip tanks...more like a B36]

No single engine B58's either. (from the first sentence in the article)

[VH-XXX]

Subversive1, wash your mouth out, I was hounded for suggesting similar in the original thread! :ouch:

As you say, it's not like it was a TigerMoth !

With today's technology and aircraft design it's more about fundraising for the expedition than the actual flying.

[nitpicker330]

Stationair8-----you'll have to remove your reference to the Hong Kong Hilton hotel.......hasn't been one there in that name since 1995.....:ok:

[pithblot]

Subversive & Triple Eggs Ray?,

I was thinking similar things (it's not 1927, not a Gypsy Moth etc) back in 1989 while watching the aviation event of the millennium. We were waiting on the airside of the old Darwin terminal (ah the water tower and the fighter lines, Mirage, within spitting distance !) so we had a great view of a loose three ship aero club formation who scrambled to heroically escort the newest Darling of the flying set into Darwin.

As the Piper Saratoga heaved into view, and with tears in our eyes, we listened over the radio as Gaby Kennard announced,

"Hello Australia,
Hello Darwin,
Hello 60 Minutes"

Then we got on with flying :)

Maybe, with just one one flight, these flying celebrities will achieve more than a multitude of anonymous heroes do in a lifetime? Gaby Kennard certainly made her mark with fundraising for the RFDS and I see Qantas is going to name an A380 in her honour.

Well done, all of you!

[Jack Ranga]

Hardly the point is it? While a lot of you slag gen y for being lazy, unmotivated so & so's he got off his arse & did something. Don't think I'd attempt it, regardless of whether he had a GPS & autopilot it's still a long way across the pacific ;)

[Wally Mk2]

I see some news now coming down the wire about a young teen & his dad trying to break a world record in a Bo has crashed & it ended very sadly.
Yahoo news is running it now.
Went into the water off Samoa:-(

Such a sad thing to read:-(


Wmk2