Bob Timm and John Cook and the sixty-four days they kept a Cessna one seventy-two airborne over Las Vegas
In 1959, Bob Timm and John Cook set an unbroken endurance flight record of 64 days in a Cessna 172 over Las Vegas.
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Hurricane R four one eighteen and the Battle of Britain veteran pulled from India and restored to fly again
Hurricane R4118, a Battle of Britain combat veteran with 49 sorties, was recovered from India and restored to airworthy condition.
TaildraggerSaburo Sakai and the four-hour flight home blind in one eye from Guadalcanal
How Saburo Sakai flew 560 miles home with a bullet in his head after being hit over Guadalcanal in 1942.
TaildraggerTex Johnston and the barrel roll that sold the Boeing seven oh seven over Lake Washington
How test pilot Tex Johnston's unauthorized barrel roll over Lake Washington in 1955 helped launch the Boeing 707 and the jet age.
TaildraggerBessie Coleman and the woman who crossed an ocean just to learn to fly
Bessie Coleman became the world's first Black woman to earn a pilot's license by traveling to France after every U.S. flight school rejected her.
TaildraggerCharles Lindbergh and the Spirit of Saint Louis lifting off from Roosevelt Field on May twentieth, nineteen twenty-seven
On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh departed Roosevelt Field in the Spirit of Saint Louis for the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.
TaildraggerLincoln Beachey and the man who owned the sky until San Francisco Bay took him back
Lincoln Beachey was America's first airshow pilot, drawing crowds of 250,000 before his death at 28 changed aviation safety forever.
TaildraggerWhiskey Seven the C-forty-seven that flew back to Normandy seventy years after D-Day
Whiskey Seven, a D-Day C-47, was restored by volunteers and flew back to Normandy 70 years later to drop paratroopers over the same fields.
TaildraggerBeryl Markham and the solo westbound Atlantic crossing that nobody remembers
Beryl Markham became the first woman to fly solo westbound across the Atlantic in 1936, a feat harder than Lindbergh's or Earhart's crossings.
TaildraggerHarry Hawker and Mackenzie-Grieve and the transatlantic attempt that ended in the North Atlantic on May nineteenth, nineteen nineteen
On May 19, 1919, Harry Hawker and Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve ditched in the North Atlantic, failing to cross but proving it could be done.
TaildraggerPancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club where test pilots drank for free
Pancho Barnes ran the Happy Bottom Riding Club, the legendary desert bar where America's test pilots drank free after breaking records.
TaildraggerThe Lady Be Good and the B-twenty-four Liberator that vanished into the Sahara and waited sixteen years to be found
The B-24 Lady Be Good vanished over Libya in 1943 and was found 16 years later in the Sahara, perfectly preserved with working radios.
TaildraggerThe nineteen ten Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field and the week America fell in love with airplanes
The 1910 Los Angeles Air Meet at Dominguez Field drew hundreds of thousands and ignited America's love affair with flight.
TaildraggerThe Vought F4U Corsair and the bent-wing bird they said couldn't land on a carrier
The Vought F4U Corsair's iconic bent wings solved an engineering problem and created the Pacific's deadliest fighter.
TaildraggerAlcock and Brown and the sixteen hours that crossed the Atlantic for the very first time
Alcock and Brown completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight in June 1919, eight years before Lindbergh, in an open-cockpit biplane.
TaildraggerBill Odom and the Labor Day crash that killed the Cleveland National Air Races
The 1949 Berea crash that killed pilot Bill Odom and two bystanders ended the Cleveland National Air Races and reshaped airshow safety forever.
TaildraggerDick Bong and America's Ace of Aces who never wanted to be famous
Major Richard 'Dick' Bong scored 40 aerial victories in WWII, becoming America's all-time Ace of Aces.
TaildraggerMathias Rust and the teenager who flew a Cessna into the heart of Moscow
In 1987, 19-year-old Mathias Rust flew a rented Cessna 172 through Soviet airspace and landed near the Kremlin, changing Cold War history.
TaildraggerThe Bristol Blenheim and the twenty-year resurrection of Britain's forgotten bomber
The Bristol Blenheim flew Britain's first offensive mission of WWII, then vanished — until one man spent 31 years bringing her back.
TaildraggerThe Mount Saint Helens eruption of May eighteenth nineteen eighty and the volcanic ash cloud that grounded the Northwest and changed aviation forever
The 1980 Mount Saint Helens eruption exposed aviation's vulnerability to volcanic ash and sparked the global warning systems pilots rely on today.
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