BROWNFIELD, Maine — Bob and Derek Potter’s schedule to hay their field changed Saturday when a single-engine airplane was forced to make an emergency landing on it.
Rick and Tracy Brennan of Boulder, Colo., had been in route from the Chatham Municipal Airport in Chatham, Mass., on the southeastern tip of Cape Cod, when their plane ran out of gas heading for the Eastern Slope Regional Airport. Rick, the pilot, is a retired Air Force pilot who flew F-111 fighters.
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