Douglas Bader, the Legless Ace Who Flew Spitfires on Two Tin Legs and Got His Spares Parachuted In by the Enemy
How RAF ace Douglas Bader lost both legs, flew Spitfires on tin legs, and had the enemy parachute him a spare.
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Operation Black Buck, the Single Avro Vulcan and the Eleven Tankers That Flew Eight Thousand Miles to Drop One Stick of Bombs on a Falklands Runway
How the RAF sent one aging Avro Vulcan and eleven tankers nearly 8,000 miles to bomb Port Stanley in the longest raid ever flown.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear, the Army Instructor Who Climbed Out of the Cockpit to Fix a Radiator and Invented Wing-Walking, Then Died Chasing One More Shot for Hollywood
How Army instructor Ormer Locklear invented wing-walking in 1918 and died filming a Hollywood stunt in 1920, shaping modern aviation.
TaildraggerThe Cornfield Bomber, the F One Oh Six Delta Dart That Flew Itself Down to a Gentle Landing in a Montana Field After the Pilot Had Already Punched Out
The Cornfield Bomber is an F-106 that recovered from a flat spin and belly-landed itself in Montana in 1970 after its pilot ejected.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Mosquito, the Wooden Wonder Built by Furniture Makers That Outran Every Fighter in the Sky
Radio Hangar explores The de Havilland Mosquito, the Wooden Wonder Built by Furniture Makers That Outran Every Fighter in the Sky.
TaildraggerThe Gossamer Albatross, Bryan Allen, and the Human-Powered Flight Across the English Channel on Nothing but Two Legs and a Twenty-Two-Foot Propeller
How Bryan Allen pedaled the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel in 1979, achieving the first human-powered crossing.
TaildraggerThe Question Mark, the Fokker That Stayed Airborne for a Hundred and Fifty Hours in Nineteen Twenty-Nine and Taught the World to Refuel in Flight
In 1929 the Fokker 'Question Mark' stayed aloft 150 hours using in-flight refueling, proving aerial refueling was possible and reshaping aviation.
TaildraggerThe Schneider Trophy, the Supermarine S Six B, and the Seaplane Races That Gave the World the Spitfire
How the Schneider Trophy seaplane races and the Supermarine S.6B gave birth to the Spitfire that saved Britain in 1940.
TaildraggerThe X B Seventy Valkyrie, the Six-Engine Mach-Three Giant That Only Flew as Two, Lost One in a Photo Shoot, and Now Fills a Hangar in Dayton
The XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach-3 bomber that flew only twice, lost one aircraft in a 1966 photo-shoot crash, and survives in Dayton, Ohio.
TaildraggerVoyager, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, and the Nine Days Around the World Without a Single Drop of Fuel Taken On
How Voyager and its crew flew nonstop around the world in 1986 - no landings, no refueling, and 18 gallons to spare.
TaildraggerAlcock and Brown, the Vickers Vimy, and the First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic Into a Bog in Ireland
In June 1919, Alcock and Brown flew the first nonstop transatlantic flight, eight years before Lindbergh.
TaildraggerFlak-Bait, the Martin B-26 Marauder That Flew Two Hundred and Seven Missions and Came Home, Now Being Pieced Back Together at the Smithsonian
Flak-Bait, the B-26 Marauder that survived 207 combat missions, is being conserved - not restored - at the Smithsonian with every scar intact.
TaildraggerJacqueline Cochran, the Orphan From the Florida Panhandle Who Outran Every Man in the Sky and Became the First Woman Through the Sound Barrier
How Jacqueline Cochran rose from a Florida sawmill camp to set more aviation records than any pilot in history.
TaildraggerNoel Wien, the Standard Biplane With No Brakes, and the First Man to Fly the Alaska Bush Where There Were No Maps
How Noel Wien flew a brakeless 1924 Standard biplane across an unmapped Alaska and wrote the rulebook for bush flying.
TaildraggerOperation Chastise, the Dambusters, and the Bouncing Bomb Barnes Wallis Skipped Across a Reservoir to Break the Ruhr Dams
How the Dambusters used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach Germany's Ruhr dams in 1943 - the physics, the flying, and the cost.
TaildraggerPardo's Push, the F-4 Phantom That Shoved a Crippled Wingman Halfway Out of North Vietnam With Nothing but a Windshield and a Tailhook
The true story of Pardo's Push, when an F-4 pilot used his windshield to shove a crippled wingman out of North Vietnam in 1967.
TaildraggerRoscoe Turner, the Waxed Mustache, and the Lion Cub Named Gilmore Who Flew the Air Races Strapped Into His Own Parachute
How showman Roscoe Turner and his flying lion cub Gilmore won three Thompson Trophies and helped sell America on aviation.
TaildraggerThe Republic P Forty-Seven Thunderbolt, the Seven-Ton Jug That Could Dive Faster Than Any Piston Fighter and Fly Home Full of Holes
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was WWII's heaviest single-engine fighter - a 7-ton 'Jug' built to dive faster and survive more than any rival.
TaildraggerThe Swamp Ghost, the B-17E That Ditched in a New Guinea Swamp in Nineteen Forty-Two and Waited Sixty-Four Years to Come Home
The Swamp Ghost, a B-17E that ditched in a New Guinea swamp in 1942, sat untouched for 64 years before its recovery.
TaildraggerChuck Yeager, the Bell X One Glamorous Glennis, and the Cracked Ribs He Hid From the Flight Surgeon the Morning He Broke the Sound Barrier
How Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on Oct 14, 1947 with two cracked ribs and a sawed-off broom handle nobody knew about.
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