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 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.
The Stinson Reliant Gullwing is a 1930s luxury cabin monoplane whose distinctive double-tapered wing still draws crowds at Oshkosh.
How Benny Howard's homebuilt Mister Mulligan won both the 1935 Bendix and Thompson trophies - the only airplane ever to do it.
How Minnesota farmer Bernard Pietenpol bolted a Ford Model A engine to a homebuilt airplane and launched the entire experimental aviation movement.
How Curtis Pitts and pilot Betty Skelton turned a homemade Florida biplane into the airplane that taught the world to roll.
How 1920s barnstormers turned surplus Jennies and farmers' hay fields into flying's first schools - and why Oshkosh carries on their legacy.
How Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon pioneered glacier landings on Denali and rewrote the rules of backcountry flying.
The C-47 'That's All, Brother' led the D-Day airborne invasion, was rescued from a scrapyard, and flies again today.
The Beechcraft Staggerwing's backward-staggered wings made this 1930s luxury biplane faster than fighters - here's the real story.
The Boeing Stearman 'Yellow Peril' trained WWII pilots, then survived as a crop duster - here's how restorers bring it back to life.
The North American T-6 Texan trained more military pilots than any aircraft in history - and its supersonic prop tips still own the Oshkosh warbird ramp.
The North American T-6 Texan, the 'Pilot Maker,' trained a generation of WWII fighter pilots and still fills the warbird ramp at Oshkosh.
The Vought F4U Corsair earned the name Whistling Death in WWII and remains a star of the Oshkosh warbird ramp today.
How Wiley Post, a one-eyed Oklahoma pilot, flew the Winnie Mae solo around the world in 1933 and pioneered the pressure suit.