How Army instructor Ormer Locklear invented wing-walking in 1918 and died filming a Hollywood stunt in 1920, shaping modern aviation.
TaildraggerThe Cornfield Bomber is an F-106 that recovered from a flat spin and belly-landed itself in Montana in 1970 after its pilot ejected.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The de Havilland Mosquito, the Wooden Wonder Built by Furniture Makers That Outran Every Fighter in the Sky.
TaildraggerHow Bryan Allen pedaled the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel in 1979, achieving the first human-powered crossing.
TaildraggerIn 1929 the Fokker 'Question Mark' stayed aloft 150 hours using in-flight refueling, proving aerial refueling was possible and reshaping aviation.
TaildraggerHow the Schneider Trophy seaplane races and the Supermarine S.6B gave birth to the Spitfire that saved Britain in 1940.
TaildraggerThe XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach-3 bomber that flew only twice, lost one aircraft in a 1966 photo-shoot crash, and survives in Dayton, Ohio.
TaildraggerHow Voyager and its crew flew nonstop around the world in 1986 - no landings, no refueling, and 18 gallons to spare.
TaildraggerIn June 1919, Alcock and Brown flew the first nonstop transatlantic flight, eight years before Lindbergh.
TaildraggerFlak-Bait, the B-26 Marauder that survived 207 combat missions, is being conserved - not restored - at the Smithsonian with every scar intact.
TaildraggerHow Jacqueline Cochran rose from a Florida sawmill camp to set more aviation records than any pilot in history.
TaildraggerHow Noel Wien flew a brakeless 1924 Standard biplane across an unmapped Alaska and wrote the rulebook for bush flying.
TaildraggerHow the Dambusters used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach Germany's Ruhr dams in 1943 - the physics, the flying, and the cost.
TaildraggerThe true story of Pardo's Push, when an F-4 pilot used his windshield to shove a crippled wingman out of North Vietnam in 1967.
TaildraggerHow showman Roscoe Turner and his flying lion cub Gilmore won three Thompson Trophies and helped sell America on aviation.
TaildraggerThe Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was WWII's heaviest single-engine fighter - a 7-ton 'Jug' built to dive faster and survive more than any rival.
TaildraggerThe Swamp Ghost, a B-17E that ditched in a New Guinea swamp in 1942, sat untouched for 64 years before its recovery.
TaildraggerHow Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on Oct 14, 1947 with two cracked ribs and a sawed-off broom handle nobody knew about.
TaildraggerHow airmail pilot Elrey Jeppesen turned a 20-cent notebook into the approach charts flown in nearly every cockpit on Earth.
TaildraggerThe story of Robin Olds, his legendary mustache, and Operation Bolo - the 1967 trick that downed seven MiGs over Hanoi in 12 minutes.
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