At 17, he was ready to smash the record as the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world, but covid delayed his record breaking flight with just 18 days to spare. [from the archives]

More: BBC News

UPDATE: Travis is now a student at Emory Rddle Aeronautical University in Florida working on an ePlane.

UPDATE 2: The Guinness World Record for “the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo in an aircraft” has been broken by 17 year old Mack Rutherford.

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