Dan Day is all smiles as flight instructor Woody Woodruff signs off on his first successful solo flights through the Eastern Slope Aviation Academy on July 26. (ED BERGERON PHOTO)
Dan Day is all smiles as flight instructor Woody Woodruff cuts off Day's T-shirt tail, which is considered a sign of the instructor's new confidence in their student after successful completion of the first solo flight. (ED BERGERON PHOTO)
Dan Day is all smiles as flight instructor Woody Woodruff signs off on his first successful solo flights through the Eastern Slope Aviation Academy on July 26. (ED BERGERON PHOTO)
Dan Day is all smiles as flight instructor Woody Woodruff cuts off Day's T-shirt tail, which is considered a sign of the instructor's new confidence in their student after successful completion of the first solo flight. (ED BERGERON PHOTO)
FRYEBURG, Maine — Daniel Day is the third student at the Eastern Slope Aviation Academy to complete his first solo flight at the Eastern Slope Regional Airport in Fryeburg, Maine.
“This morning under blue sky and a light crosswind, Dan Day completed his first solo,” Ed Bergeron, president of the Aviation Academy, said on July 26. “He did several takeoffs and landings with instructor Woody Woodruff, then Woody got out of the Cessna 150 and left Dan to do five takeoffs and landings on his own.
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