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PETER TEICHMAN’S HANGAR 11 COLLECTION

n any given day in the skies over England, you might be lucky enough to see Peter Teichman practicing his impressive demonstration routine in a pristine P-51D Mustang named “Jumpin’ Jacques.” Peter has about 8,000 flying hours, of which over 2,000 are on warbirds. He counts, however, over 11,000 flights in his logbook, meaning he doesn’t have a lot of what pilots call “droning time”—cruising at altitude on autopilot. Registered as

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