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.
Radio Hangar explores Jerrie Mock, the Spirit of Columbus, and the Ohio Housewife Who Flew a Single-Engine Cessna Solo Around the World in Nineteen Sixty-Four.
How F-4 pilot Bob Pardo used his jet's nose to push a crippled wingman out of North Vietnam in 1967 - one of aviation's boldest maneuvers.
How the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the seven-ton 'Jug,' became WWII's toughest fighter and brought more pilots home than any of its rivals.
How Howard Hughes flew the Spruce Goose one mile off Long Beach in 1947 to prove his critics wrong.
How one-eyed pilot Wiley Post flew the wooden Winnie Mae around the world twice and pioneered the pressure suit and jet stream.
How Beryl Markham became the first person to fly the Atlantic solo east to west, from England to North America, in September 1936.
How Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon mastered glacier landings on Denali and flew hundreds of daring rescue missions in a fabric Super Cub.
How pilot Gail Halvorsen became the Candy Bomber, dropping chocolate on handkerchief parachutes to children during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
How Jimmy Doolittle's 1929 blind flight proved airplanes could fly safely on instruments alone, launching the modern age of IFR aviation.
The last airworthy Bristol Blenheim was rebuilt three times over nearly 40 years, surviving two crashes to fly again at Duxford.
The Night Witches flew 23,000 night sorties in wood-and-canvas biplanes, gliding silently over German lines on the WWII Eastern Front.
The F4U Corsair's iconic gull wing wasn't styling - it was geometry solving a 13-foot propeller problem. Here's the full story.
Radio Hangar explores The XB-70 Valkyrie, the Six-Engine Mach Three Bomber That Folded Its Wingtips in Flight and Now Sits Alone at Dayton After a Camera Killed Her Sister.
How Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938 and called it a navigation error.
How John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 1919, crash-landing a converted bomber in an Irish bog.
In 1911, Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz biplane across America in 84 days, crashing dozens of times to become the first to cross the continent by air.
Radio Hangar explores Doc, the B-29 Superfortress That Spent Forty Years as a Bombing Target in the Mojave Before a Handful of Volunteers Brought Her Back to the Sky.
How RAF ace Douglas Bader lost both legs in a 1931 crash, flew Spitfires on tin legs, and became a Battle of Britain hero.
How Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb and 617 Squadron's Lancaster crews broke Germany's Ruhr dams in the May 1943 Dambusters raid.
The de Havilland Mosquito was a wooden WWII bomber built by furniture and piano makers that outran the Spitfire and became a legend.