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.
In 1929 the Fokker 'Question Mark' stayed aloft 150 hours using in-flight refueling, proving aerial refueling was possible and reshaping aviation.
How the Schneider Trophy seaplane races and the Supermarine S.6B gave birth to the Spitfire that saved Britain in 1940.
The XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach-3 bomber that flew only twice, lost one aircraft in a 1966 photo-shoot crash, and survives in Dayton, Ohio.
How Voyager and its crew flew nonstop around the world in 1986 - no landings, no refueling, and 18 gallons to spare.
In June 1919, Alcock and Brown flew the first nonstop transatlantic flight, eight years before Lindbergh.
Flak-Bait, the B-26 Marauder that survived 207 combat missions, is being conserved - not restored - at the Smithsonian with every scar intact.
How Jacqueline Cochran rose from a Florida sawmill camp to set more aviation records than any pilot in history.
How Noel Wien flew a brakeless 1924 Standard biplane across an unmapped Alaska and wrote the rulebook for bush flying.
How the Dambusters used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach Germany's Ruhr dams in 1943 - the physics, the flying, and the cost.
The true story of Pardo's Push, when an F-4 pilot used his windshield to shove a crippled wingman out of North Vietnam in 1967.
How showman Roscoe Turner and his flying lion cub Gilmore won three Thompson Trophies and helped sell America on aviation.
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was WWII's heaviest single-engine fighter - a 7-ton 'Jug' built to dive faster and survive more than any rival.
The Swamp Ghost, a B-17E that ditched in a New Guinea swamp in 1942, sat untouched for 64 years before its recovery.
How Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on Oct 14, 1947 with two cracked ribs and a sawed-off broom handle nobody knew about.
How airmail pilot Elrey Jeppesen turned a 20-cent notebook into the approach charts flown in nearly every cockpit on Earth.
The story of Robin Olds, his legendary mustache, and Operation Bolo - the 1967 trick that downed seven MiGs over Hanoi in 12 minutes.
How 'That's All, Brother,' the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne assault, was saved from a Wisconsin scrapyard and restored to flight.
The story of the Memphis Belle, the B-17 that flew 25 missions over Europe and survived a 13-year restoration to reach the museum floor.
Radio Hangar explores The Vought F4U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Bird the Marines Called Whistling Death and the Navy Said Would Never Land on a Carrier.
How one-eyed pilot Wiley Post flew solo around the world in 1933, discovered the jet stream, and helped invent the pressure suit.