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A Legendary Sortie
Flight Journal
|January - February 2023
BRADLEY WENTZEL
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IF YOU WERE AT THE 2022 EAA AIRVENTURE Oshkosh airshow, you may have had the chance to see something truly unique early one morning: the rooster crowing to wake you was replaced with the magical rumble of two F7F Tigercats and four P-51 Mustangs, a sortie put together by Lewis Air Legends, Breitling, and AOPA.
This story is from the January - February 2023 edition of Flight Journal.
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