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Nineteen-year-old Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, arriving back in Belgium on Thursday after an odyssey spanning 52 countries and five continents. The Belgian-British teenager touched down at Kortrijk-Wevelgem airfield – the final stop in a expedition that kicked off in August and lasted 156 days – greeted by her family, fans and crowds of reporters. Within hours, Guinness World Records confirmed that Rutherford was indeed the youngest woman to complete the feat, and also the youngest person of any gender to circumnavigate solo in a microlight airplane. …