Tom Tippin probably isn’t the first high schooler to skip school on his sixteenth birthday. However, rather than out being a juvenile delinquent on Dec. 1, that milestone day, Tippin was prowling around the Upper Cumberland Regional Airport in Sparta, Tennessee, at 5 a.m. prepping three airplanes for his first powered solo flights.
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