How barnstormer Ormer Locklear and the surplus Curtiss Jenny sold America its first airplane ride after World War I.
TaildraggerHow Pancho Barnes became the fastest woman on earth and built the desert club where test pilots broke the sound barrier.
TaildraggerIn 1958-59, two men kept a Cessna 172 airborne over Las Vegas for 64 days without landing - a record that still stands today.
TaildraggerHow the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne invasion was rescued from a turboprop conversion line and restored to fly over Normandy again.
TaildraggerHow the slow, homely Douglas SBD Dauntless sank four Japanese carriers at Midway and turned the Pacific War in five minutes.
TaildraggerThe 1924 Douglas World Cruiser Chicago made the first flight around the world - and still hangs in the Smithsonian today.
TaildraggerThe F-86 Sabre dominated MiG Alley in the Korean War until jet combat ended with the armistice on July 27, 1953.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches flew obsolete Po-2 biplanes into WWII combat, cutting their engines to glide silently onto targets in the dark.
TaildraggerHow the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt 'Jug' - a seven-ton fighter - outdove enemies and brought its pilots home riddled with holes.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a $310 Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Dublin in 1938 and called it an accident.
TaildraggerHow Betty Skelton and her red Pitts Special 'Little Stinker' broke aviation's barriers with inverted ribbon cuts and 17 records.
TaildraggerHow Noel Wien's 1924 Fairbanks-to-Nome flight invented Alaska bush flying and shaped modern backcountry aviation.
TaildraggerHow AirCorps Aviation in Bemidji, Minnesota rebuilt the P-51 Mustang 'Sierra Sue Two' from corroded parts into an Oshkosh Grand Champion.
TaildraggerIn 2005 Steve Fossett flew Burt Rutan's GlobalFlyer solo around the world nonstop, unrefueled, in 67 hours on a single tank.
TaildraggerSteve Wittman, the near-blind Oshkosh airport manager and racing legend, invented the landing gear under thousands of aircraft and gave EAA its home field.
TaildraggerThe story of the Beechcraft Staggerwing, the negative-stagger luxury biplane the Beeches built during the Depression and a Bendix winner.
TaildraggerHow the Ford Trimotor, the corrugated 'Tin Goose,' taught a fearful America to trust the airliner - and why it still flies at Oshkosh.
TaildraggerHow Kelly Johnson's twin-boom P-38 Lightning became WWII's 'fork-tailed devil' and why it still stops the show at Oshkosh.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh's Wicker-Seat Gamble Across the Atlantic, and the Full-Scale Ryan Hanging in the EAA Museum at Oshkosh.
TaildraggerAluminum Overcast is one of fewer than a dozen airworthy B-17s left, kept flying by the EAA at Oshkosh's Wittman Field.
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