The de Havilland Mosquito - built of wood, crewed by two, carrying no guns - recorded the lowest loss rate of any aircraft in RAF Bomber Command during World War II.
TaildraggerIn 1924, two U.S. Army Air Service biplanes completed the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe - 175 days, 363 hours, and 26,345 miles in open cockpits.
TaildraggerHow 100 American pilots resigned their commissions and defeated the Japanese Air Force over Burma and China before the US officially entered WWII.
TaildraggerThe Northrop N-9M Flying Wing proved a radical concept in 1942 - and the one survivor at Chino still flies to prove it today.
TaildraggerIn January 1929, Wop May and Vic Horner flew diphtheria antitoxin 700 miles to Fort Vermilion, Alberta in brutal cold, completing in two days what would have taken dogsled teams three weeks.
TaildraggerIn 1911, Cal Rodgers flew coast-to-coast in 49 days aboard a grape-soda-sponsored Wright biplane - crashing 15+ times, flying with a broken arm, and changing aviation forever.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon was the Talkeetna bush pilot who flew the Alaska Range for thirty years, pioneering glacier landing techniques that still define mountain flying today.
TaildraggerOn October 21, 1928, seventeen-year-old Elinor Smith flew a Waco biplane under all four East River bridges, launching one of American aviation's most celebrated careers.
TaildraggerHarriet Quimby became the first woman to fly the English Channel on April 16, 1912 - a milestone nearly erased by the Titanic sinking the night before.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle completed 25 combat missions in 1943, spent decades deteriorating outdoors in Memphis, and was saved by a landmark restoration unveiled May 17, 2018.
TaildraggerOn April 18, 1943, sixteen P-38 Lightnings flew a precisely calculated intercept mission over Bougainville and shot down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of Pearl Harbor.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear invented wing-walking in 1917 as a mechanical fix, not a stunt, and died on camera at 28 performing a night dive for a Hollywood film in 1920.
TaildraggerOn August 27, 1939, test pilot Erich Warsitz flew the Heinkel He 178 for six minutes - the first turbojet-powered flight in history - five days before World War II began.
TaildraggerHow a five-paragraph memo by an RAF test pilot led to the engine swap that transformed the P-51 Mustang into the war-winning fighter of World War II.
TaildraggerHow Howard Hughes built a 320-foot wooden flying boat, silenced Congress with a single 26-second flight, and created the most ambitious aircraft ever constructed.
TaildraggerWiley Post, a one-eyed Oklahoma oilfield worker, flew solo around the world in 1933 and pioneered pressure suit technology that became the foundation for modern spacesuits.
TaildraggerBeryl Markham made the first solo east-to-west Atlantic crossing in 1936, flying 21 hours against the prevailing winds in a single-engine Percival Vega Gull.
TaildraggerHow Bob Reeve arrived in Depression-era Alaska with $75 and invented commercial glacier flying on the tidal flats of Valdez.
TaildraggerOn October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 with two broken ribs and a broom handle - the complete story of how it happened.
TaildraggerHow Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew 26,366 miles around the Earth without landing or refueling - nine days in a cockpit two feet wide.
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