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image captionAlex Westgate said he spent most of the flight coaching himself along
A teenager has become one of the youngest people to fly a glider plane solo on his 14th birthday.
Alex Westgate took to the air on his own on Wednesday at Husbands Bosworth airfield in Leicestershire.
The young pilot, who began training during the first lockdown, said he felt very calm behind the wheel and coached himself along. It really felt amazing flying the glider and being up in the air all by myself, he said. I was talking to myself a lot because I was the only one there and I wanted to get everything perfect and land safely.