Bud Anderson, Old Crow, and the Triple Ace Who Never Lost a Wingman, Told From Warbird Alley at Oshkosh
Bud Anderson flew the P-51 'Old Crow' to triple-ace status in WWII and never lost a single wingman across two combat tours.
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Burt Rutan, the VariEze, and the Backwards Little Canard That Buzzed Into Oshkosh in Nineteen Seventy-Five and Blew the Doors Off the Homebuilt World
Radio Hangar explores Burt Rutan, the VariEze, and the Backwards Little Canard That Buzzed Into Oshkosh in Nineteen Seventy-Five and Blew the Doors Off the Homebuilt World.
TaildraggerDoc, the B-29 Superfortress Pulled From a Desert Bombing Range and Rebuilt by the People Who Once Built Her
How Doc, one of only two flying B-29 Superfortresses, was rescued from a desert bombing range and rebuilt by the people who first built her.
TaildraggerGlacier Girl, the Lost Squadron, and the P Thirty-Eight Lightning They Dug Out From Under Two Hundred Sixty-Eight Feet of Greenland Ice
How Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning, was recovered from 268 feet of Greenland ice 50 years after crash-landing and flew again in 2002.
TaildraggerGlacier Girl, the Lost Squadron, and the P-38 Lightning They Dug Out From Under Two Hundred Sixty-Eight Feet of Greenland Ice
How Glacier Girl, a P-38 abandoned on Greenland's ice cap in 1942, was recovered from 268 feet of ice and flown again in 2002.
TaildraggerHoward Hughes, the H-1 Racer, and the Silver Bullet That Set the Landplane Speed Record and Came Back to Oshkosh in Miniature Perfection
How Howard Hughes's H-1 Racer set the 1935 landplane speed record and returned to Oshkosh decades later as an award-winning replica.
TaildraggerSteve Wittman, Chief Oshkosh, and the Air Racer Whose Name Is Painted on the Field Where the Whole Show Lands
Steve Wittman was a legally blind air racer and self-taught engineer whose name Oshkosh's airport bears - and whose ideas still fly today.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Beaver, the Flying Half-Ton Truck the Bush Pilots Designed Themselves, Rumbling In Over the Oshkosh Seaplane Base
The de Havilland Beaver became a legend because its makers asked bush pilots what they needed - power, big doors, and toughness.
TaildraggerThe Gates Flying Circus, Ivan Gates, and Upside-Down Pangborn - the Barnstorming Outfit That Sold America Its First Airplane Ride a Dollar at a Time
How the Gates Flying Circus sold over a million Americans their first airplane ride for a dollar and launched the barnstorming era.
TaildraggerThe Piper J-3 Cub, the Little Yellow Airplane That Taught a Nation to Fly, and the Cubs That Still Swarm Into Oshkosh Every Summer
How the Piper J-3 Cub taught America to fly, went to war as the L-4 Grasshopper, and still swarms into Oshkosh every summer.
TaildraggerThe Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the Jug, and the Seven-Ton Fighter That Brought Its Pilots Home on the Oshkosh Warbird Ramp
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was WWII's biggest single-engine fighter, and its massive airframe is exactly why it brought so many pilots home.
TaildraggerThe Stinson Reliant Gullwing and the Detroit Cabin Cruiser That Still Rules the Vintage Rows at Oshkosh
The Stinson Reliant Gullwing is a 1930s luxury cabin monoplane whose distinctive double-tapered wing still draws crowds at Oshkosh.
TaildraggerBenny Howard, Mister Mulligan, and the Homebuilt Racer That Won Both the Bendix and the Thompson in a Single Year
How Benny Howard's homebuilt Mister Mulligan won both the 1935 Bendix and Thompson trophies - the only airplane ever to do it.
TaildraggerBernard Pietenpol, the Air Camper, and the Minnesota Farmer Who Bolted a Ford Engine to a Homebuilt and Started It All
How Minnesota farmer Bernard Pietenpol bolted a Ford Model A engine to a homebuilt airplane and launched the entire experimental aviation movement.
TaildraggerCurtis Pitts, Betty Skelton, and the Little Biplane That Taught the World to Roll
How Curtis Pitts and pilot Betty Skelton turned a homemade Florida biplane into the airplane that taught the world to roll.
TaildraggerCurtiss Field, Long Island, and the Barnstormer's Contract That Sent a Kid to His First Loop
How 1920s barnstormers turned surplus Jennies and farmers' hay fields into flying's first schools - and why Oshkosh carries on their legacy.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon, the Talkeetna Mountain Pilot, and the Glacier Landings That Wrote the Book on Bush Flying
How Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon pioneered glacier landings on Denali and rewrote the rules of backcountry flying.
TaildraggerThat's All, Brother - The C-47 That Led the D-Day Sky Train and Came Back From a Boneyard to Fly Over Oshkosh
The C-47 'That's All, Brother' led the D-Day airborne invasion, was rescued from a scrapyard, and flies again today.
TaildraggerThe Beechcraft Staggerwing and the Backward Biplane That Outran Every Airplane in Its Class
The Beechcraft Staggerwing's backward-staggered wings made this 1930s luxury biplane faster than fighters - here's the real story.
TaildraggerThe Boeing Stearman, the Yellow Peril, and the Fabric-and-Dope Craft That Brings a Warbird Back to Life on the Oshkosh Vintage Rows
The Boeing Stearman 'Yellow Peril' trained WWII pilots, then survived as a crop duster - here's how restorers bring it back to life.
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