In 1925, Noel Wien flew an open-cockpit Hisso Standard 500 miles from Fairbanks to Nome across Alaska no pilot had ever seen.
TaildraggerHow the RAF's Dambusters used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to break the Ruhr dams flying at 60 feet in the dark.
TaildraggerHow wing walker Ormer Locklear and the surplus Curtiss Jenny turned 1919 America into a nation that looked up at the sky.
TaildraggerThe story of Swamp Ghost, a B-17E that sat 64 years in a New Guinea swamp before its 2006 recovery and preservation in Hawaii.
TaildraggerHow Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Dash 80 prototype over Lake Washington in 1955 and helped launch the jet age.
TaildraggerHow Claire Chennault turned the outclassed P-40 into a war-winner with the Flying Tigers over China, months before America entered WWII.
TaildraggerHow the Gossamer Condor won the Kremer Prize on August 23, 1977, achieving the first human-powered controlled flight.
TaildraggerHow the Grumman F6F Hellcat, built around combat reports from the Pacific, destroyed Japanese naval air power with a 19-to-1 kill ratio.
TaildraggerHow the Schneider Trophy floatplane race and Supermarine's S.6B secretly forged the engineering behind the Spitfire.
TaildraggerHow Bob Reeve turned a Valdez tidal mud flat into a runway, pioneered glacier landings, and invented Alaska bush flying.
TaildraggerHow Charles Kingsford Smith and the Southern Cross made the first trans-Pacific flight from the US to Australia in 1928.
TaildraggerHow Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947 - flying with two cracked ribs and a broomstick to close the hatch.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Doc, the B-29 Superfortress the Navy Used for Bomb Practice, and the Wichita Volunteers Who Spent Sixteen Years Bringing Her Back to the Sky.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Jerrie Mock, the Spirit of Columbus, and the Ohio Housewife Who Flew a Single-Engine Cessna Solo Around the World in Nineteen Sixty-Four.
TaildraggerHow F-4 pilot Bob Pardo used his jet's nose to push a crippled wingman out of North Vietnam in 1967 - one of aviation's boldest maneuvers.
TaildraggerHow the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the seven-ton 'Jug,' became WWII's toughest fighter and brought more pilots home than any of its rivals.
TaildraggerHow Howard Hughes flew the Spruce Goose one mile off Long Beach in 1947 to prove his critics wrong.
TaildraggerHow one-eyed pilot Wiley Post flew the wooden Winnie Mae around the world twice and pioneered the pressure suit and jet stream.
TaildraggerHow Beryl Markham became the first person to fly the Atlantic solo east to west, from England to North America, in September 1936.
TaildraggerHow Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon mastered glacier landings on Denali and flew hundreds of daring rescue missions in a fabric Super Cub.
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