Flak-Bait, the B Twenty-Six Marauder That Flew Two Hundred and Seven Missions and Came Home Every Time
How Flak-Bait, a B-26 Marauder, flew a record 207 combat missions in WWII and survives today at the Smithsonian.
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Ormer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, and the Night the Arc Lights Killed Him Over DeMille Field
How Ormer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, pioneered plane-to-plane transfers and died filming a night stunt in 1920.
TaildraggerRoscoe Turner, the Powder-Blue Colonel, and Gilmore the Lion Cub Who Rode Shotgun Through the Golden Age of Air Racing
Radio Hangar explores Roscoe Turner, the Powder-Blue Colonel, and Gilmore the Lion Cub Who Rode Shotgun Through the Golden Age of Air Racing.
TaildraggerTex Johnston Rolls the Dash Eighty, the Day Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Barrel-Rolled a Jet Transport Over Lake Washington to Sell the Jet Age
Radio Hangar explores Tex Johnston Rolls the Dash Eighty, the Day Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Barrel-Rolled a Jet Transport Over Lake Washington to Sell the Jet Age.
TaildraggerThe Lockheed Constellation, Howard Hughes's Triple-Tail Queen of the Skies and the Airplane That Made the Whole Country Feel Small
The Lockheed Constellation was Howard Hughes's triple-tail airliner that shrank America and the Atlantic before jets ended its reign.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches, the Five Eighty-Eighth Night Bomber Regiment, and the Women Who Bombed the Germans From Plywood Biplanes With the Engine Switched Off
The Night Witches flew plywood biplanes over Nazi lines at night with engines off - one of WWII's bravest aviation stories.
TaildraggerThe USS Forrestal Fire of July Twenty-Ninth, Nineteen Sixty-Seven, Chief Gerald Farrier, and the Ninety Seconds That Rewrote How the Navy Fights Fire
How the 1967 USS Forrestal fire killed 134 sailors and permanently changed how the U.S. Navy fights fire at sea.
TaildraggerThe Vought F Four U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Whistling Death, and the Gull Wing Born From a Propeller Too Big for the Ground
How the Vought F4U Corsair's inverted gull wing solved a propeller problem and made it one of WWII's deadliest fighters.
TaildraggerWrong Way Corrigan, the Patched-Up Curtiss Robin, and the Twenty-Eight Hour Flight to Ireland He Swore He Never Meant to Take
How Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938 and blamed a compass.
TaildraggerAntoine de Saint-Exupery, the Aeropostale Mail Pilot Who Wrote The Little Prince and Vanished Over the Mediterranean in a P Thirty-Eight
The story of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the Aeropostale mail pilot who wrote The Little Prince and vanished over the Mediterranean in 1944.
TaildraggerCal Rodgers, the Vin Fiz, and the Forty-Nine Day Crash Across America to Win a Prize He Never Collected
The story of Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz, the first airplane to cross America in 1911, after 49 days and countless crashes.
TaildraggerCarl Ben Eielson, the Schoolteacher Who Flew Alaska's First Airmail and Vanished on the Ice off Siberia
How schoolteacher Carl Ben Eielson flew Alaska's first airmail, crossed both poles, and vanished on the Siberian ice at age 32.
TaildraggerDaredevil Lindbergh, the Wing-Walking Kid Who Barnstormed the Great Plains Four Years Before He Ever Saw Paris
Before crossing the Atlantic in 1927, Charles Lindbergh spent four years barnstorming the Great Plains as a wing-walker and parachute jumper.
TaildraggerOperation Chastise, Barnes Wallis's Bouncing Bomb, and the Night Six-Seventeen Squadron Skipped a Weapon Across the Ruhr to Break the Dams
How 617 Squadron used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach the Ruhr dams in 1943's Operation Chastise.
TaildraggerOperation Tidal Wave, the Ploesti Raid, and the Day the Liberators Went in at Chimney Height Over Hitler's Oil
The 1943 Ploesti raid sent 178 low-flying B-24 Liberators against Hitler's oil, earning five Medals of Honor at a staggering cost.
TaildraggerPardo's Push, the F Four Phantom That Shoved Another Fighter Out of North Vietnam on Its Tailhook
The true story of Pardo's Push: how an F-4 pilot used his windscreen and a tailhook to shove a fuel-starved Phantom out of North Vietnam in 1967.
TaildraggerThe B Twenty-Five That Hit the Empire State Building, the Fog Over Manhattan on July Twenty-Eighth, Nineteen Forty-Five, and Betty Lou Oliver, the Woman Who Fell Seventy-Five Stories and Lived
On July 28, 1945, a B-25 bomber hit the Empire State Building in fog - and elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver survived a 75-story fall.
TaildraggerThe Douglas DC-3, the Gooney Bird, and the Airplane That Made the World Small Enough to Fly Across
How the Douglas DC-3 made air travel profitable, won a war as the Gooney Bird, and still flies for a living today.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee R One, the Granville Brothers, and the Fat Little Racer Jimmy Doolittle Rode to the Thompson Trophy at Cleveland in Nineteen Thirty-Two
How Jimmy Doolittle tamed the deadly Gee Bee R-1 to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy and set a world speed record at Cleveland.
TaildraggerThe Ohka, the Yasukuni Betty, and the Cherry Blossom Suicide Bomb Hanging in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka at the Udvar-Hazy Center was a rocket-powered suicide weapon - here's its grim history and why it matters.
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