Pilot Mack, 16, aims to break solo round-the-world record

Mack qualified for his pilot’s licence in July 2020 – the youngest pilot in the world at the age of 15 years and two weeks

Mack Rutherford is bidding to break a world (Gareth Fuller/PA)

A 16-year-old will attempt to become the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a bid to show that young people can do incredible things.

Mack Rutherford may still be in school, but the British-Belgian teenager is determined to follow in his trailblazing older sister’s footsteps and soar into the record books himself.