The Memphis Belle, the B Seventeen That Flew Twenty-Five and Came Home to Rot Before Dayton Brought Her Back
The Memphis Belle flew 25 missions, rotted for decades in the open, then took 13 years to restore for Dayton.
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The Night Witches, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, and the Women Who Glided Wood-and-Canvas Biplanes Over the German Lines With the Engine Cut
The Night Witches flew wood-and-canvas biplanes over the German lines at night with their engines cut - here's their story.
TaildraggerThe Vought F4U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Bird the Japanese Called Whistling Death, and the Gull Wing Born to Swing the Biggest Propeller in the Fleet
How the F4U Corsair's inverted gull wing, 2,000-hp engine, and whistling scream made it one of WWII's greatest fighters.
TaildraggerVoyager, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, and the Nine Days They Flew Around the World Without Stopping or Taking On a Drop of Fuel
In 1986, Voyager flew nonstop around the world unrefueled - here's the full story of that record-setting nine-day flight.
TaildraggerBessie Coleman, Queen Bess, and the Farm Girl From Texas Who Sailed to France to Earn the License No One in America Would Give Her
How Bessie Coleman sailed to France in 1920 to become the first Black woman and first Native American woman to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerBob Hoover, the Pilot's Pilot, the Stolen Focke-Wulf, and the Glass of Iced Tea He Poured While Rolling a Shrike Commander
The story of Bob Hoover, the 'pilot's pilot' who poured iced tea while barrel-rolling and stole a Focke-Wulf to escape a WWII POW camp.
TaildraggerButch O'Hare, the Grumman Wildcat, and the Six Minutes Over the Lexington That Saved a Carrier and Named an Airport
How Butch O'Hare downed five bombers in six minutes to save the USS Lexington - and why Chicago's airport bears his name.
TaildraggerDoc, the B-29 Superfortress That Sat Twenty Years as a Desert Bombing Target Before Three Hundred Thousand Volunteer Hours Brought Her Back to the Sky
How a B-29 named Doc survived 20 years as a desert bombing target and flew again after 300,000 volunteer hours.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon, the Talkeetna Glacier Pilot Who Landed a Super Cub on the Side of Mount McKinley and Flew More Rescues Than Any Bush Pilot in Alaska
How Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon landed a Super Cub on Denali's glaciers and flew more mountain rescues than any pilot in the state.
TaildraggerFlak-Bait, the Martin B-26 Marauder That Flew Two Hundred and Seven Missions and Never Killed a Crewman, Now Being Rebuilt Rivet by Rivet at the Smithsonian
How the B-26 Marauder Flak-Bait flew ~207 combat missions without losing a crewman - and why the Smithsonian is conserving her rivet by rivet.
TaildraggerJoe Kittinger, Excelsior Three, and the Step Off the Edge of Space on August Sixteenth, Nineteen Sixty
On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger stepped from a balloon 102,800 feet up and set records that stood for 52 years.
TaildraggerOperation Chastise, the Dam Busters of Six Seventeen Squadron, and the Bouncing Bomb That Skipped Across a German Reservoir at Sixty Feet in the Dark
How the Dam Busters of 617 Squadron used a bouncing bomb to breach Germany's Ruhr dams at 60 feet in the dark on 16 May 1943.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, and the Texas Lieutenant Who Climbed Out of the Cockpit and Never Really Came Back
Ormer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, invented wing walking and the mid-air plane change before dying on film in 1920.
TaildraggerThe Berlin Candy Bomber, Gail Halvorsen, and the Two Sticks of Gum That Turned a C Fifty-Four Into a Wiggle-Winged Miracle Over Tempelhof
How Gail Halvorsen's two sticks of gum sparked the Berlin Candy Bomber legend during the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift.
TaildraggerThe Douglas DC-3, the Gooney Bird That Made the Airlines Pay and Never Really Stopped Flying
How the Douglas DC-3 became the first airplane to make airlines profitable - and why it's still flying freight nearly 90 years later.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee Model R, Jimmy Doolittle, and the Flying Barrel That Won the Thompson Trophy and Terrified Every Man Who Ever Strapped Into It
How Jimmy Doolittle tamed the Gee Bee Model R - aviation's most feared racer - to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy and a world speed record.
TaildraggerWiley Post, the Winnie Mae, and the One-Eyed Oklahoma Roughneck Who Flew Solo Around the World in Seven Days
How one-eyed Oklahoma roughneck Wiley Post flew solo around the world in under 8 days and pioneered the autopilot, pressure suit, and jet stream.
TaildraggerKA114, the de Havilland Mosquito, and the Wooden Wonder That Flew Again After Sixteen Years Because One Man in New Zealand Built the Molds From Scratch
How KA114 became the first flying de Havilland Mosquito in 16 years, thanks to one man in New Zealand who rebuilt the molds by hand.
TaildraggerNoel Wien, the Cautious Dane of the Arctic, and the Bush Pilot Who Flew to Siberia and Lived to Grow Old
How Noel Wien became Alaska's greatest bush pilot and the first to fly commercially between North America and Asia - by being careful.
TaildraggerOperation Bolo, Robin Olds, and the MiG Trap That Cleaned Out the Sky Over Hanoi in Twelve Minutes
How Robin Olds and the Wolfpack used a decoy trap to destroy seven MiG-21s in twelve minutes over Hanoi on January 2, 1967.
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