Carlo Schmid (Swiss pilot)
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Carlo Schmid is a Swiss pilot.[1]
In 2012 he became the youngest solo pilot to fly around the world at the age of 22, breaking the previous record held by Barrington Irving.[1] The 110-hour[1] flight of his Cessna 210[1] lasted 80 days from July 11 to September 29, 2012.[2] The flight concluded with a landing at Dübendorf Air Base, accompanied by the PC-7 Team of the Swiss Air Force.[2]
In 2014, Schmid's record was broken by 19-year-old Matt Guthmiller[3] and in 2022 by 17-year old British-Belgian pilot Mack Rutherford.[4]
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External links
- Official Website Archived 2014-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Swissinfo.ch
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung
- SCCIJ.jp
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- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lua error: bad argument #1 to "get" (not a valid title).
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Emotionaler Empfang für jüngsten Weltumflieger. (September 29, 2012) Retrieved from link
- ↑ MIT student finishes record flight around the world - The Boston Globe. Retrieved from BostonGlobe.com
- ↑ Teenage pilot becomes youngest person to fly solo around the globe. Amy Cassidy. (2022-08-24) Retrieved 2022-08-25 from CNN
