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I confess, I'm not sure what's terribly impressive about this either. Flight isn't exactly something new. Was there some kind of time limit or maximum number of

• coding123 5y ago
  Most of the other 18 year olds I knew when I was that young were proud of the drunken party they had the night before. It's fucking damn impressive.
• jcims 5y ago
  Watch some videos of cross country flights in single engine planes (ultralights no less) on YouTube. There is a lot going on. Add to that the challenges of interacting with control towers literally all over the world, looking for traffic, managing weather, the endurance of being buffeted around in a tiny plane and the existential anxiety of placing your life in the proverbial hands of a rotax engine for months on end. Did she cure cancer or save the whales or reverse global warming or whatever else might clear the bar for 'terribly impressive'? No. But it's still a pretty amazing accomplishment and regardless of what was placed in front of her she still had to do the time.
• gkanai 5y ago
  > I'm not sure what's terribly impressive about this either. It is not easy to do this. Losing the engine at the wrong time or place would have meant near certain death especially in the winter regions. Very few people have done this, and none at her age/gender. It's a tremendous accomplishment even if you do not think so.