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 Memphis Belle survived 25 WWII missions, then a 13-year restoration returned the famous B-17 to display at the Air Force Museum in Dayton.
How the 65-horsepower Piper J-3 Cub taught America to fly and trained the pilots who won World War II.
The story of the F4U Corsair, the gull-winged 'Whistling Death' the Navy nearly abandoned before the Marines made it a WWII legend.
How Voyager and the Rutan team flew nonstop around the world in 1986, landing with just 18 gallons of fuel to spare.
How Bessie Coleman crossed the Atlantic to become the first Black and Native American woman to earn a pilot's license.
How Talkeetna bush pilot Don Sheldon flew an ordinary Cessna 180 on skis onto Denali's glaciers to rescue stranded climbers.
On September 24, 1929, Jimmy Doolittle flew from takeoff to landing entirely on instruments, launching the age of instrument flight.
How barnstormer Ormer Locklear and the surplus Curtiss Jenny sold America its first airplane ride after World War I.
How Pancho Barnes became the fastest woman on earth and built the desert club where test pilots broke the sound barrier.
In 1958-59, two men kept a Cessna 172 airborne over Las Vegas for 64 days without landing - a record that still stands today.
How the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne invasion was rescued from a turboprop conversion line and restored to fly over Normandy again.
How the slow, homely Douglas SBD Dauntless sank four Japanese carriers at Midway and turned the Pacific War in five minutes.
The 1924 Douglas World Cruiser Chicago made the first flight around the world - and still hangs in the Smithsonian today.
The F-86 Sabre dominated MiG Alley in the Korean War until jet combat ended with the armistice on July 27, 1953.
The Night Witches flew obsolete Po-2 biplanes into WWII combat, cutting their engines to glide silently onto targets in the dark.
How the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt 'Jug' - a seven-ton fighter - outdove enemies and brought its pilots home riddled with holes.
How Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a $310 Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Dublin in 1938 and called it an accident.
How Betty Skelton and her red Pitts Special 'Little Stinker' broke aviation's barriers with inverted ribbon cuts and 17 records.
How Noel Wien's 1924 Fairbanks-to-Nome flight invented Alaska bush flying and shaped modern backcountry aviation.
How AirCorps Aviation in Bemidji, Minnesota rebuilt the P-51 Mustang 'Sierra Sue Two' from corroded parts into an Oshkosh Grand Champion.