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 the F4U Corsair's inverted gull wing, 2,000-hp engine, and whistling scream made it one of WWII's greatest fighters.
In 1986, Voyager flew nonstop around the world unrefueled - here's the full story of that record-setting nine-day flight.
How Bessie Coleman sailed to France in 1920 to become the first Black woman and first Native American woman to earn a pilot's license.
The story of Bob Hoover, the 'pilot's pilot' who poured iced tea while barrel-rolling and stole a Focke-Wulf to escape a WWII POW camp.
How Butch O'Hare downed five bombers in six minutes to save the USS Lexington - and why Chicago's airport bears his name.
How a B-29 named Doc survived 20 years as a desert bombing target and flew again after 300,000 volunteer hours.
How Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon landed a Super Cub on Denali's glaciers and flew more mountain rescues than any pilot in the state.
How the B-26 Marauder Flak-Bait flew ~207 combat missions without losing a crewman - and why the Smithsonian is conserving her rivet by rivet.
On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger stepped from a balloon 102,800 feet up and set records that stood for 52 years.
How the Dam Busters of 617 Squadron used a bouncing bomb to breach Germany's Ruhr dams at 60 feet in the dark on 16 May 1943.
Ormer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, invented wing walking and the mid-air plane change before dying on film in 1920.
How Gail Halvorsen's two sticks of gum sparked the Berlin Candy Bomber legend during the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift.
How the Douglas DC-3 became the first airplane to make airlines profitable - and why it's still flying freight nearly 90 years later.
How Jimmy Doolittle tamed the Gee Bee Model R - aviation's most feared racer - to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy and a world speed record.
How one-eyed Oklahoma roughneck Wiley Post flew solo around the world in under 8 days and pioneered the autopilot, pressure suit, and jet stream.
How KA114 became the first flying de Havilland Mosquito in 16 years, thanks to one man in New Zealand who rebuilt the molds by hand.
How Noel Wien became Alaska's greatest bush pilot and the first to fly commercially between North America and Asia - by being careful.
How Robin Olds and the Wolfpack used a decoy trap to destroy seven MiG-21s in twelve minutes over Hanoi on January 2, 1967.
How Captain Bob Pardo used his F-4 Phantom's windscreen to physically push a crippled fighter out of North Vietnam in 1967.
On its final flight in 1990, SR-71 Blackbird tail 972 set four world speed records flying LA to DC in 64 minutes, then retired to the Smithsonian.