How two men kept a Cessna 172 airborne for nearly 65 days over Las Vegas in 1958–59, setting a flight endurance record that still stands.
TaildraggerThe story of the F4U Corsair, the 'Whistling Death' fighter too wild for carriers that the Marines turned into a legend.
TaildraggerHow one-eyed Oklahoma roughneck Wiley Post flew solo around the world and discovered the jet stream in a wooden airplane.
TaildraggerHow John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a converted Vickers Vimy bomber across the Atlantic nonstop in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh.
TaildraggerHow broke bush pilot Bob Reeve used tidal mudflats and homemade steel skis to land airplanes on Alaskan glaciers and build an airline.
TaildraggerHow a WWII B-29 named Doc went from a Mojave bombing target to one of only two airworthy Superfortresses, restored by volunteers in Wichita.
TaildraggerHow Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning, was cut from under 268 feet of Greenland ice and flew again 50 years later.
TaildraggerHow Jimmy Doolittle's 15-minute blind flight in 1929 invented instrument flying and changed aviation forever.
TaildraggerHow Roscoe Turner, the showman with a lion co-pilot, became the only pilot to win the Thompson Trophy three times.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches flew 23,000+ night bombing sorties in plywood biplanes, gliding silently onto German lines on the WWII Eastern Front.
TaildraggerThe story of the Piper J-3 Cub, the $1,000 yellow airplane that taught America to fly and trained most WWII pilots.
TaildraggerThe Spruce Goose flew just one mile for 26 seconds in 1947, yet still holds the record for the longest wingspan of any aircraft ever flown.
TaildraggerHow Benny Howard's homebuilt cabin racer Mister Mulligan won both the 1935 Bendix and Thompson trophies - a feat never repeated.
TaildraggerHow Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz made the first flight across America in 1911, surviving 16 crashes over 49 days.
TaildraggerHow Don Sheldon, Talkeetna's legendary glacier pilot, landed ski planes on Denali to ferry climbers and pull off impossible rescues.
TaildraggerHow Flak-Bait, a B-26 Marauder, flew 207 combat missions in WWII and is now being conserved piece by piece at the Smithsonian.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Operation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level B Twenty-Four Raid on the Ploesti Oil Refineries, August First, Nineteen Forty-Three.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear invented professional wing-walking and the deadly plane-to-plane 'Dance of Death' - until a 1920 film stunt killed him at 28.
TaildraggerHow Robin Olds and the Wolfpack disguised F-4 Phantoms as bombers and destroyed seven MiG-21s in twelve minutes over Hanoi.
TaildraggerHow test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Boeing Dash 80 over Lake Washington in 1955 and sold the world on jets.
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