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 Gladys Ingle of the Thirteen Black Cats changed an airplane wheel in mid-air, and why barnstorming built modern aviation.
On July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot flew a 25-hp monoplane across the English Channel, ending England's age as an unreachable island.
How Paul Poberezny turned a wrecked glider and a garage-built airplane into EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the world's largest fly-in.
The Beechcraft Staggerwing's backward-staggered wings gave it speed and visibility - and today's restorers keep the vintage biplane gleaming at Oshkosh.
How the Douglas DC-3 made airlines profitable for the first time and then carried paratroopers into Normandy as the C-47 Gooney Bird.
The Ford Trimotor 'Tin Goose' helped launch U.S. air travel - and you can still buy a ride in one at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
The Gee Bee Super Sportster earned a killer reputation, but Doolittle and Delmar Benjamin proved it was demanding, not evil.
The P-51 Mustang began as an underpowered disappointment until a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine swap turned it into WWII's finest piston fighter.
How the EAA and its volunteers keep Aluminum Overcast, one of the last airworthy B-17 bombers, flying at Oshkosh and across America.
Bud Anderson flew the P-51 'Old Crow' to triple-ace status in WWII and never lost a single wingman across two combat tours.
Radio Hangar explores Burt Rutan, the VariEze, and the Backwards Little Canard That Buzzed Into Oshkosh in Nineteen Seventy-Five and Blew the Doors Off the Homebuilt World.
How Doc, one of only two flying B-29 Superfortresses, was rescued from a desert bombing range and rebuilt by the people who first built her.
How Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning, was recovered from 268 feet of Greenland ice 50 years after crash-landing and flew again in 2002.
How Glacier Girl, a P-38 abandoned on Greenland's ice cap in 1942, was recovered from 268 feet of ice and flown again in 2002.
How Howard Hughes's H-1 Racer set the 1935 landplane speed record and returned to Oshkosh decades later as an award-winning replica.
Steve Wittman was a legally blind air racer and self-taught engineer whose name Oshkosh's airport bears - and whose ideas still fly today.
The de Havilland Beaver became a legend because its makers asked bush pilots what they needed - power, big doors, and toughness.
How the Gates Flying Circus sold over a million Americans their first airplane ride for a dollar and launched the barnstorming era.
How the Piper J-3 Cub taught America to fly, went to war as the L-4 Grasshopper, and still swarms into Oshkosh every summer.
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was WWII's biggest single-engine fighter, and its massive airframe is exactly why it brought so many pilots home.