Young pilot close to finishing record solo flight around globe

Sunday, June 24, 2007

HOUSTON -- Two stops before completing a journey that would make him the youngest person to fly solo around the Earth, Barrington Irving glided into Houston on Saturday with a message for the roughly 50 students who cheered his arrival.

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