Radio Hangar explores Amelia Earhart and the Friendship, the gold trimotor that crossed the Atlantic on June seventeenth, nineteen twenty-eight.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The Cleveland National Air Races and Jimmy Doolittle winning the first Thompson Trophy in the Travel Air Mystery Ship, nineteen twenty-nine.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores That's All, Brother and the C-forty-seven that led the D-Day invasion, rescued from a Wisconsin boneyard the week before the scrappers came.
TaildraggerThe true story of Franz Stigler, the German ace who escorted a crippled B-17 to safety instead of shooting it down in December 1943.
TaildraggerThe crew of B-17 'Old 666' earned two Medals of Honor and a DSC for every man - the most decorated flight in U.S. history.
TaildraggerOn June 15, 1916, Bill Boeing test-flew the B&W seaplane himself - the first airplane Boeing ever built.
TaildraggerHow Bob Hoover poured iced tea while barrel-rolling a Shrike Commander - and why that trick proved he was aviation's smoothest hand.
TaildraggerOn June 13, 1944, the V-1 buzz bomb struck London, becoming the first cruise missile used in combat and changing air warfare forever.
TaildraggerOn June 7, 1939, the Dixie Clipper made history as the first scheduled transatlantic passenger flight from New York to Europe.
TaildraggerSpitfire ML407 survived D-Day, decades of neglect, and personal tragedy to become one of the world's most storied warbirds.
TaildraggerThe 1971 midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 and a Marine F-4 Phantom killed 49 people and helped drive the development of TCAS.
TaildraggerHow Butch Voris and four combat-veteran Hellcat pilots created the Blue Angels in 1946 to save naval aviation.
TaildraggerFlak Bait, the most battle-damaged American bomber to survive WWII, flew 207 missions and took over 1,000 flak holes before its painstaking Smithsonian restoration.
TaildraggerOn June 5, 1944, over 800 C-47 crews flew paratroopers into Normandy through flak and cloud, launching the D-Day invasion.
TaildraggerNoel Wien's 1924 flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks in an open-cockpit biplane changed Alaska forever.
TaildraggerThe 1952 Farnborough airshow disaster killed 31 people and fundamentally changed how every airshow in the world manages spectator safety.
TaildraggerOn June 4, 1783, the Montgolfier brothers launched the first public hot air balloon flight in Annonay, France, launching the age of human flight.
TaildraggerHow Eddie Rickenbacker, America's WWI Ace of Aces, survived 24 days adrift in the Pacific in 1942.
TaildraggerThe 1962 crash of Air France Flight 007 at Orly killed 130 people, including 106 Atlanta art patrons, and reshaped a city's cultural identity.
TaildraggerOn June 2, 1910, Charles Rolls completed the first nonstop round-trip flight across the English Channel - and died flying 39 days later.
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