I am suggesting this young man deserves some serious awards from the Honourable Company of Air Pilots and the Light Aircraft Association.
18 year old Lachlan Smart is the youngest pilot to ever cross the Pacific and Atlantic and has done the latter the long way via the Azores.
Biggin Hill will play a starring role in a Guinness world record attempt later today when the teenage pilot touches down at the airport.
Lachlan Smart is attempting to become the youngest person in history to fly around the globe solo, in a single engine aircraft, in a trip titled Wings Around the World.
The 18-year-old began his historic flight earlier this month when he took off in Australia and he has already made his way across the Pacific, America and the Atlantic.
And just after 7pm tonight, the native of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, will land at London Biggin Hill Airport for the latest stop during his 24,000 nautical mile adventure.
Read more at
The youngest ever pilot to go round the world about to land in Biggin Hill | Kent and Sussex Courier
He is spending around 11 days in the UK while the S22 has a check.
With so much bad news around today this is uplifting.
(Appeal to mods.. can we keep this in Private Flying and not ANZ & Pacific where it will get lost?)