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Logan Tinley Plans To Circumnavigate The World To Raise Money For Childhood Cancer

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Nineteen-year-old Logan Tinley, of Fort Worth, Texas, is getting ready to take a solo flight of a lifetime.

The young pilot and student at Vanderbilt University is setting out to become the youngest American to circumnavigate the world in a month.

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He's doing it in a single engine propeller plane.

While a potential world-record is motivating, Tinley is also looking to raise half a million dollars to help fight childhood cancers.

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