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Breitling Dials Up a Unique Formation

These fighters that are the emblems of Breitling’s Super AVI collection. Ray Fowler flies lead in the MAM P-51D, “Double Trouble Two,” with John Fuentes in MAM’s FG-1D Corsair stepped down on his right wing. Mike Spalding in MAM’s DeHavilland Mosquito is down below abreast of Taylor Stevenson in the Cavanaugh Flight Museum’s P-40N. (Photo by Bradley Wentzel)

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A Mustang, Mosquito, Corsair and Warhawk bring the Super AVI collection to life On a sweltering day last August, liquid-cooled Merlin and Allison V-12s and an air-cooled Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engine idled impatiently at the east end of the Military Aviation Museum’s (MAM’s) beautifully maintained, 5,000-foot grass runway. Sweating through his tan flight suit in the hot cockpit of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum’s P-40N, Taylor Stevenson was less concerned than usual about getting...

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