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 Bob Hoover poured iced tea mid-barrel-roll and flew dead-stick loops in a business twin - the story of aviation's greatest stick-and-rudder pilot.
How Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, used homemade stainless-steel skis to land on Alaska's glaciers and supply remote gold mines.
On July 4, 1908, Glenn Curtiss flew the June Bug over a kilometer before official judges - the first publicly documented flight in America.
How the Red Baron really fell on April 21, 1918 - and why the evidence points to a gunner on the ground, not Roy Brown.
How pilot Gail Halvorsen became the Candy Bomber, dropping chocolate on parachutes to children during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
How the war-surplus Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny' gave 1920s America its first taste of flight and launched the barnstorming era.
The de Havilland Mosquito was a wooden WWII aircraft so fast that enemy fighters couldn't catch it, serving in nearly every combat role.
How Henry Ford's corrugated-metal Ford Trimotor, the 'Tin Goose,' became America's first practical airliner and taught a nation to fly.
How Jimmy Doolittle tamed the deadly Gee Bee Model R to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy and set a 296 mph world speed record.
The only airworthy Bristol Blenheim survived two crashes and three rebuilds over nearly 40 years to fly again at Duxford.
The Swamp Ghost is a B-17E that ditched in a New Guinea swamp in 1942 and sat intact for 50 years before recovery.
How two Ohio bicycle makers solved control - not power - to achieve the first flight at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903.
The XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach 3 bomber; only one survives after a 1966 photo-shoot collision destroyed its twin. Here's the full story.
How Bessie Coleman crossed an ocean and learned French to become the first Black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license.
How volunteers pulled the B-29 Doc from a desert bombing range and spent 18 years restoring her into the world's second flyable Superfortress.
How Alaskan bush pilot Don Sheldon pioneered glacier landings on Denali and flew death-defying high-altitude rescues in a Piper Super Cub.
How Flak-Bait, a B-26 Marauder, flew a record 207 combat missions in WWII and survives today at the Smithsonian.
How Ormer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, pioneered plane-to-plane transfers and died filming a night stunt in 1920.
Radio Hangar explores Roscoe Turner, the Powder-Blue Colonel, and Gilmore the Lion Cub Who Rode Shotgun Through the Golden Age of Air Racing.
Radio Hangar explores Tex Johnston Rolls the Dash Eighty, the Day Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Barrel-Rolled a Jet Transport Over Lake Washington to Sell the Jet Age.