Elrey Jeppesen and the Little Black Book That Turned the Deadly Airmail Runs Into the Charts in Every Cockpit
How airmail pilot Elrey Jeppesen turned a 20-cent notebook into the approach charts flown in nearly every cockpit on Earth.
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Robin Olds, the Handlebar Mustache, and Operation Bolo, the Day the Wolfpack Tricked Seven MiGs Out of the Sky Over Hanoi
The story of Robin Olds, his legendary mustache, and Operation Bolo - the 1967 trick that downed seven MiGs over Hanoi in 12 minutes.
TaildraggerThat's All, Brother, the C-47 That Led the D-Day Sky Train, Rotting in a Wisconsin Boneyard Until a Historian Read Her Serial Number
How 'That's All, Brother,' the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne assault, was saved from a Wisconsin scrapyard and restored to flight.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle, Twenty-Five Missions Over Europe, and the Thirteen-Year Restoration That Brought Her Back From the Scrap Line to the Museum Floor
The story of the Memphis Belle, the B-17 that flew 25 missions over Europe and survived a 13-year restoration to reach the museum floor.
TaildraggerThe Vought F4U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Bird the Marines Called Whistling Death and the Navy Said Would Never Land on a Carrier
Radio Hangar explores The Vought F4U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Bird the Marines Called Whistling Death and the Navy Said Would Never Land on a Carrier.
TaildraggerWiley Post, the One-Eyed Oklahoma Roughneck, the Winnie Mae, and the Solo Flight Around the World That Also Found the Jet Stream
How one-eyed pilot Wiley Post flew solo around the world in 1933, discovered the jet stream, and helped invent the pressure suit.
TaildraggerBob Hoover, the Iced Tea Pour, and the Shrike Commander He Rolled Off Both Runways With Both Engines Shut Down
How Bob Hoover poured iced tea mid-barrel-roll and flew dead-stick loops in a business twin - the story of aviation's greatest stick-and-rudder pilot.
TaildraggerBob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, and the Stainless-Steel Skis That Landed Gold Miners on the Ice
How Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, used homemade stainless-steel skis to land on Alaska's glaciers and supply remote gold mines.
TaildraggerGlenn Curtiss, the June Bug, and the Fourth of July in Nineteen Oh Eight When America First Measured a Man Flying
On July 4, 1908, Glenn Curtiss flew the June Bug over a kilometer before official judges - the first publicly documented flight in America.
TaildraggerRoy Brown, Wop May, and the Morning the Red Baron Fell Over the Somme
How the Red Baron really fell on April 21, 1918 - and why the evidence points to a gunner on the ground, not Roy Brown.
TaildraggerThe Candy Bomber, Gail Halvorsen, and the Wiggling Wings That Dropped Chocolate Into a Starving Berlin
How pilot Gail Halvorsen became the Candy Bomber, dropping chocolate on parachutes to children during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
TaildraggerThe Curtiss Jenny, the Ninety-Horse War-Surplus Trainer That Sold for the Price of a Used Car and Carried the Whole Barnstorming Era on Its Wings
How the war-surplus Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny' gave 1920s America its first taste of flight and launched the barnstorming era.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Mosquito, the Wooden Wonder Built From Furniture Glue and Spruce That Outran Every Fighter the Germans Could Throw at It
The de Havilland Mosquito was a wooden WWII aircraft so fast that enemy fighters couldn't catch it, serving in nearly every combat role.
TaildraggerThe Ford Trimotor, the Tin Goose Henry Ford Built From Corrugated Metal, and the Birthday That Gave America Its First Real Airliner
How Henry Ford's corrugated-metal Ford Trimotor, the 'Tin Goose,' became America's first practical airliner and taught a nation to fly.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee Model R, the Flying Beer Keg the Granville Brothers Built for Speed, and the Nineteen Thirty-Two Afternoon Jimmy Doolittle Wrestled It Around the Cleveland Pylons
How Jimmy Doolittle tamed the deadly Gee Bee Model R to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy and set a 296 mph world speed record.
TaildraggerThe Only Flying Blenheim, Graham Warner's Twenty-Year Fight, and the Duxford Bomber That Crashed Twice and Came Home Anyway
The only airworthy Bristol Blenheim survived two crashes and three rebuilds over nearly 40 years to fly again at Duxford.
TaildraggerThe Swamp Ghost, the B Seventeen E That Ditched in a New Guinea Marsh in Nineteen Forty-Two and Sat in the Reeds for Half a Century
The Swamp Ghost is a B-17E that ditched in a New Guinea swamp in 1942 and sat intact for 50 years before recovery.
TaildraggerThe Wright Brothers, Ohio to Kitty Hawk, and the Six-Second Grocery-Store Photograph That Almost Never Got Taken
How two Ohio bicycle makers solved control - not power - to achieve the first flight at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903.
TaildraggerThe X B Seventy Valkyrie, North American's Mach Three White Bird, and the Lone Survivor That Sits in Dayton After a Camera Killed Its Twin
The XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach 3 bomber; only one survives after a 1966 photo-shoot collision destroyed its twin. Here's the full story.
TaildraggerBessie Coleman, Queen Bess, and the Barnstormer Who Crossed an Ocean to Learn What America Would Not Teach Her
How Bessie Coleman crossed an ocean and learned French to become the first Black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license.
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