Wrong Way Corrigan and the nine-dollar airplane that accidentally crossed the Atlantic
Douglas Corrigan 'accidentally' flew from New York to Ireland in 1938 after being denied permission three times.
The Hangar
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.
Robin Olds and the fighter ace who tricked North Vietnam's MiGs with Operation Bolo
Robin Olds scored 17 aerial victories across two wars and masterminded Operation Bolo, the most successful air-to-air mission of the Vietnam War.
Swamp Ghost the B-seventeen E Flying Fortress found in a Papua New Guinea swamp sixty-seven years after she crash-landed in nineteen forty-two
The story of Swamp Ghost, a B-17E recovered from a Papua New Guinea swamp 67 years after its 1942 crash landing.
The Bermuda Sky Queen and the flying boat that landed in the middle of the Atlantic
The Bermuda Sky Queen's 1947 emergency ocean landing saved 69 lives but was overshadowed by Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier the same day.
The Ijmuiden disaster and the B-twenty-six Marauder crews who redeemed the Widow Maker
The B-26 Marauder went from the most feared bomber in the Army Air Forces to the lowest combat loss rate of any American bomber in Europe.
Chuck Yeager and the broken ribs he hid to fly the X-1 past Mach one on October fourteenth, nineteen forty-seven
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the Bell X-1 past Mach 1 with two broken ribs and a broomstick lever.
Operation Chastise and the Dambusters who skipped bombs across German reservoirs at sixty feet on May sixteenth, nineteen forty-three
On May 16, 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers attacked Germany's Ruhr Valley dams using spinning bouncing bombs dropped at exactly sixty feet.
The Memphis Belle restoration and the thirteen years it took to bring her back from the brink at the National Museum of the United States Air Force
The Memphis Belle's 13-year restoration at Wright-Patterson required thousands of decisions to save a B-17 America nearly let disintegrate.
The Phantom Fortress and the B-seventeen that landed itself in a Belgian field with no crew aboard
A B-17 bomber flew over 100 miles and landed in a Belgian field in 1944 with no crew aboard after all hands bailed out over Germany.
The Dornier Do seventeen pulled from the English Channel and the only surviving Bomber of its kind
The last surviving Dornier Do 17, a WWII German bomber, was recovered from the English Channel in 2013 after 73 years underwater.
The Gloster E twenty-eight thirty-nine and the secret jet that changed everything on May fifteenth, nineteen forty-one
On May 15, 1941, the Gloster E.28/39 made Britain's first jet-powered flight, proving Frank Whittle's revolutionary engine concept.
The Grande Semaine d'Aviation at Reims and the week in nineteen oh nine when the world saw airplanes for the very first time
The 1909 Grande Semaine d'Aviation at Reims, France was the event that proved aviation was real and invented the airshow.
The Grumman F6F Hellcat and the fighter designed from day one to kill the Zero
How the Grumman F6F Hellcat was engineered from captured Zero data to dominate the Pacific air war with a 19-to-1 kill ratio.
Thomas Fitzpatrick and the stolen airplane he landed on a New York City street twice to win a bar bet
Thomas Fitzpatrick stole airplanes twice from Teterboro and landed them on Manhattan streets to win bar bets in 1956 and 1958.
Wiley Post and the one-eyed Oklahoma farm boy who flew around the world twice and found the jet stream
Wiley Post lost an eye in an oil field, flew around the world twice, and discovered the jet stream that every airline uses today.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the pilot who wrote The Little Prince then vanished into the Mediterranean sky
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry flew mail routes over the Sahara and Andes before writing The Little Prince, then vanished over the Mediterranean in 1944.
Charlie Furnas and the first airplane passenger who climbed aboard at Kill Devil Hills on May fourteenth, nineteen oh eight
On May 14, 1908, mechanic Charlie Furnas became the first airplane passenger in America at Kill Devil Hills, NC.
Doc the B-twenty-nine Superfortress and the sixteen-year volunteer miracle that brought her back from the Mojave Desert
How 300,000 hours of volunteer labor brought B-29 Doc from a desert hulk to the second flying Superfortress in the world.
Max Conrad the Flying Grandfather who crossed oceans alone in a Piper Comanche
Max Conrad made over 200 solo ocean crossings in single-engine Pipers, earning the title Flying Grandfather.
Operation Vengeance and the P-thirty-eight Lightnings that flew four hundred miles to kill Admiral Yamamoto
How sixteen P-38 Lightnings flew 400 miles on dead reckoning to intercept and kill Admiral Yamamoto in April 1943.