As a teenager, Matt Guthmiller was so obsessed with aviation his parents grew a little exasperated, so they decided to indulge him a bit.
“My parents finally paid for me to take a $20 intro flight,” Guthmiller told Cowboy State Daily. “I think they thought I was going to get this aviation thing out of my system. Now I live at an airport.”
A Military Jet In The Middle Of Nowhere
In 2014 when he was a sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Guthmiller, now 28, became the youngest person to fly around the world. He’s also founded his own aviation media company.
Most recently, he took his obsession with all things aviation nearly into the stratosphere – literally – when he and a friend bought a training jet fighter from the Estonian Air Force.
“He didn’t have a hangar for it, so it stays here and I get to fly it,” said Guthmiller, who moved to an airfield near tiny Alpine, Wyoming, a couple years ago.
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