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.
How Pancho Barnes, the fastest woman alive in 1930, built the desert club where test pilots gathered before breaking the sound barrier.
How a dying R.J. Mitchell designed the Supermarine Spitfire's elliptical wing and died in 1937, before it saved Britain.
The Swamp Ghost is the world's only intact B-17E, recovered from a New Guinea swamp after 64 years and now displayed at Pearl Harbor.
How Jimmy Doolittle tamed the deadly Gee Bee Model R to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy at 252 mph - then walked away for good.
How Air Canada Flight 143 ran both engines dry at 41,000 feet in 1983 and glided to a safe landing on a drag strip.
On August 18, 1940 - the Battle of Britain's 'Hardest Day' - the RAF and Luftwaffe suffered their heaviest single-day losses over Kent.
The story of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - the eight-ton 'Jug' that outdove enemy fighters and brought its pilots home riddled with holes.
How the Thirteen Black Cats organized at Burdett Field in 1925 and used a fixed price list to turn barnstorming into a real profession.
How volunteers and public donations returned Avro Vulcan XH558, the last flying Vulcan, to the sky from 2007 to 2015.
How Bob Reeve turned Alaska's Valdez mudflats into a runway with metal-shod skis and became a legendary glacier pilot.
In 1911 Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz coast to coast in 84 days, becoming the first person to cross America by air despite missing the prize.
On August 17, 1978, Double Eagle II became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic, ending a century of failed attempts and 13 deaths.
How Eric 'Winkle' Brown flew 487 aircraft types and made the first jet carrier landing in history.
How Ivan Gates and pilot Clyde Pangborn built the Gates Flying Circus and flew a million Americans on their first flights.
Radio Hangar explores Just Jane, the Avro Lancaster November X Six One One, and the Two Lincolnshire Farmers Who Bought a Bomber to Bring Their Brother Home.
How 16 P-38 Lightnings flew a 1,000-mile dead-reckoning ambush to kill Admiral Yamamoto, the mastermind of Pearl Harbor.
How showman-pilot Roscoe Turner won three Thompson Trophies flying the Wedell-Williams racer - with a lion cub named Gilmore riding along.
How Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the $16 million Dash 80 prototype over Seattle in 1955 and sold the world on the jet age.
The Memphis Belle flew 25 missions, rotted for decades in the open, then took 13 years to restore for Dayton.
The Night Witches flew wood-and-canvas biplanes over the German lines at night with their engines cut - here's their story.