Aviation history and storytelling with Taildragger. Warbird restorations, legendary pilots, famous flights, and the stories that shaped aviation from the Wright Brothers to the Space Shuttle.
The story of the Lockheed Constellation, the triple-tailed airliner Howard Hughes ordered in secret to fly higher and faster than anything in the sky.
The XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach 3 bomber made obsolete by missiles; the last one survives at the Air Force museum in Dayton.
How Voyager made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in 1986, landing with under 50 pounds of fuel to spare.
How Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic east to west in 1936, into the wind.
How Bob Hoover poured iced tea while flying upside down - and the two-engine-out energy routine that made him the finest stick-and-rudder pilot ever.
How Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, invented Alaska glacier flying from $2 and a stainless-steel bar top.
Radio Hangar explores Charles Kingsford Smith, the Southern Cross, and the First Flight Across the Pacific in Nineteen Twenty-Eight.
How FIFI, a B-29 rescued from a desert missile range in 1971, became the world's last flying Superfortress - and the rebuild that saved her again.
How a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice for 50 years was recovered and restored to flight as Glacier Girl.
How German engineer Otto Lilienthal proved human flight was possible - and gave his data away so the Wright brothers could finish the job.
How Bessie Coleman, a Texas sharecropper's daughter, sailed to France in 1920 to earn the pilot's license America denied her.
How the Douglas DC-3 made airlines profitable for the first time, then won a war as the C-47 Gooney Bird - and why it still flies today.
In 1924 the US Army Air Service flew Douglas World Cruisers around the globe in 175 days - the first flight around the world.
Radio Hangar explores The Memphis Belle, the B Seventeen That Flew Twenty-Five and Went Home to Prove It Could Be Done.
The Night Witches flew plywood Po-2 biplanes on up to 18 silent night bombing runs, becoming WWII's most feared women aviators.
How the Travel Air Mystery Ship, flown by Doug Davis, beat the Army and Navy at the 1929 Cleveland air races.
How race driver Eddie Rickenbacker became WWI's top American ace, then survived 24 days on a Pacific raft in 1942.
How motorcycle racer Glenn Curtiss became the 'Fastest Man on Earth,' invented the flying boat, and gave the U.S. Navy its first aircraft.
How Noel Wien flew Fairbanks to Nome in 1925 and wrote the careful-pilot rules every bush pilot still lives by.
Operation Tidal Wave, the August 1, 1943 low-level B-24 raid on Ploesti, became the costliest U.S. air mission of WWII.