How bush pilot Wop May flew a ski-equipped Bellanca Pacemaker through 55-below-zero temperatures to track the Mad Trapper of Rat River during Canada's most extraordinary wilderness manhunt in 1932.
TaildraggerHow Benny Howard's Mister Mulligan became the only airplane to win both the Bendix and Thompson trophies in 1935 - and what it cost him.
TaildraggerIn 1911, Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz coast to coast in 49 days - the first flight across America - despite dozens of crashes.
TaildraggerHow RAF ace Douglas Bader lost both legs in a 1931 crash, then flew Spitfires and Hurricanes in the Battle of Britain.
TaildraggerHow the B-26 'Flak-Bait' flew a record 207 missions and why the Smithsonian is preserving her scars instead of restoring her.
TaildraggerHow Texas daredevil Ormer Locklear invented wing walking on a Curtiss Jenny - and how his death shaped modern airshow safety.
TaildraggerThe story of Gail Halvorsen, the Candy Bomber who dropped chocolate on parachutes to blockaded Berlin's children during the 1948 airlift.
TaildraggerHow Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet in 1983 and was glided to a safe landing on a Manitoba drag strip.
TaildraggerThe Grumman F6F Hellcat downed over 5,000 enemy aircraft in the Pacific with a 19-to-1 kill ratio, built to beat the Zero.
TaildraggerThe Lockheed C-130 Hercules first flew on August 23, 1954 - and Kelly Johnson swore the 'ugly' cargo plane would ruin Lockheed. He was wrong.
TaildraggerThe story of the P-47 Thunderbolt, the eight-ton 'Jug' whose air-cooled toughness brought WWII pilots home from impossible damage.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The X B Seventy Valkyrie, the Mach Three Bomber That Folded Its Wingtips to Ride Its Own Shockwave, and the Lone Survivor Standing in Dayton.
TaildraggerThe story of Harold Gillam, the Alaska bush pilot who mastered instrument flight and flew through weather that grounded everyone else.
TaildraggerHow Voyager and its crew flew nonstop around the world without refueling in 1986 - the design, the risks, and the record.
TaildraggerHow Clyde Pangborn walked the wing of Miss Veedol over the Pacific in 1931 to complete the first nonstop transpacific flight.
TaildraggerHow Noel Wien became the first pilot to cross the Arctic Circle in Alaska - and why his caution made him a legend.
TaildraggerHow the RAF's 1943 Dambusters raid used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach the Ruhr dams at just sixty feet.
TaildraggerHow Pancho Barnes became the fastest woman in the world and built the desert club at the heart of the supersonic age.
TaildraggerHow 'That's All, Brother,' the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne assault, was rescued from a scrap line and flown home by volunteers.
TaildraggerThe Boeing 307 Stratoliner was the first pressurized airliner - and its lone survivor sank in Elliott Bay in 2002 before being rebuilt again.
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