Bob Timm and John Cook and the Cessna one seventy-two that stayed airborne for sixty-four days
In 1958-59, Bob Timm and John Cook kept a stock Cessna 172 airborne for 64 days, setting a record that still stands.
The Hangar
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.
Jimmy Angel and the crash landing on top of the world's tallest waterfall
Jimmy Angel crashed his Flamingo monoplane atop Venezuela's Auyán-tepui in 1937, proving the world's tallest waterfall existed.
The Grande Semaine d'Aviation at Reims and the week in nineteen oh nine that invented the airshow
The 1909 Grande Semaine d'Aviation at Reims, France, was the event that transformed flying from a curiosity into a global industry.
Pappy Boyington and the Black Sheep who owned the skies over the Solomon Islands
The story of Pappy Boyington, the Marine Corps' top ace of WWII who turned a squadron of misfits into legends over the Solomon Islands.
The Memphis Belle and the thirteen-year restoration that saved America's most famous bomber
The Memphis Belle's 13-year restoration at Wright-Patterson required over 200,000 hours to save America's most famous WWII bomber from decades of neglect.
Operation Eagle Claw and the desert disaster that rebuilt American special operations aviation
Operation Eagle Claw's 1980 desert failure killed eight Americans and reshaped U.S. special operations aviation forever.
The Vought F four U Corsair and the bent-wing bird that was too hot for the Navy's own carriers
The Vought F4U Corsair was rejected by the Navy for carrier use but became one of WWII's greatest fighters in Marine Corps hands.
Louise Thaden and the Staggerwing that won the nineteen thirty-six Bendix Trophy
Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes won the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race outright in a Beechcraft Staggerwing, beating every male competitor.
Art Scholl and the final inverted spin that the cameras never stopped rolling on
Art Scholl, one of the greatest aerobatic pilots in history, died filming a flat spin sequence for Top Gun in 1985.
Richard Bong, America's Ace of Aces and the forty victories that changed the Pacific War
Richard Bong scored 40 aerial victories in the Pacific, making him the highest-scoring American fighter ace in history.
Whiskey Seven and the C forty-seven that flew back to Normandy seventy-five years later
The story of Whiskey Seven, a D-Day C-47 restored by volunteers and flown back to Normandy 70 and 75 years later.
The Douglas World Cruisers and the Alaskan gauntlet on the first flight around the world
How four open-cockpit biplanes attempted the first flight around the world in 1924, and why Alaska nearly ended it all.
Thomas Fitzpatrick and the stolen Piper that landed on a Manhattan street twice to win a bar bet
Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a Piper from Teterboro and landed it on a Manhattan street twice - in 1956 and 1958 - to win bar bets.
The Night Witches and the Soviet women who bombed the Eastern Front in plywood biplanes
The Night Witches of the 588th Regiment flew plywood biplanes with dead engines through enemy fire, completing over 23,000 combat sorties on the Eastern Front.
Lady Be Good, the ghost bomber of the Sahara that waited sixteen years to be found
The B-24 Lady Be Good vanished over the Sahara in 1943 and was found intact sixteen years later, four hundred miles past its base.
Roscoe Turner and the lion that flew the National Air Races
Roscoe Turner won three Thompson Trophies, flew with a lion cub, and became the greatest air racing pilot of the 1930s.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the last flight of the pilot who wrote The Little Prince
The story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the airmail pilot and wartime reconnaissance flyer who wrote The Little Prince and vanished over the Mediterranean in 1944.
Swamp Ghost, the B seventeen Flying Fortress pulled from the jungles of Papua New Guinea after sixty-seven years
The Swamp Ghost B-17E survived 67 years in a Papua New Guinea swamp to become the most original Flying Fortress left on earth.
The Gimli Glider and the seven sixty-seven that ran out of gas at forty-one thousand feet
How a metric conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 without fuel at 41,000 feet, and a glider pilot landed a 767 with no engines.
The Doolittle Raid and sixteen B twenty-fives that changed the course of the Pacific War
The Doolittle Raid of April 1942 launched sixteen B-25 bombers from a carrier deck to strike Tokyo and alter the course of the Pacific War.