Since her departure on Aug. 18 2021, Zara covered 28,000 nautical miles, stopping in 41 countries and five continents and finally touching down at an airfield in western Belgium on Thursday, a five month long journey. Rutherford says that growing up, she has seen few women in aviation and computer engineering. She said her next mission is to change that “Basically my dream is that in the future, if a girl wants to go into aviation or wants to go engineering, it’s not special,”.
