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 Flak-Bait, a B-26 Marauder, flew 207 combat missions in WWII and is now being conserved piece by piece at the Smithsonian.
Radio Hangar explores Operation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level B Twenty-Four Raid on the Ploesti Oil Refineries, August First, Nineteen Forty-Three.
Ormer Locklear invented professional wing-walking and the deadly plane-to-plane 'Dance of Death' - until a 1920 film stunt killed him at 28.
How Robin Olds and the Wolfpack disguised F-4 Phantoms as bombers and destroyed seven MiG-21s in twelve minutes over Hanoi.
How test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Boeing Dash 80 over Lake Washington in 1955 and sold the world on jets.
How the wooden de Havilland Mosquito, built by furniture makers, outran WWII fighters and flew a dozen combat roles.
The Hawker Hurricane, not the Spitfire, downed the majority of Luftwaffe aircraft in the Battle of Britain - here's the full story.
The story of the Lockheed Constellation, the triple-tailed airliner Howard Hughes ordered in secret to fly higher and faster than anything in the sky.
The XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach 3 bomber made obsolete by missiles; the last one survives at the Air Force museum in Dayton.
How Voyager made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in 1986, landing with under 50 pounds of fuel to spare.
How Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic east to west in 1936, into the wind.
How Bob Hoover poured iced tea while flying upside down - and the two-engine-out energy routine that made him the finest stick-and-rudder pilot ever.
How Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, invented Alaska glacier flying from $2 and a stainless-steel bar top.
Radio Hangar explores Charles Kingsford Smith, the Southern Cross, and the First Flight Across the Pacific in Nineteen Twenty-Eight.
How FIFI, a B-29 rescued from a desert missile range in 1971, became the world's last flying Superfortress - and the rebuild that saved her again.
How a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice for 50 years was recovered and restored to flight as Glacier Girl.
How German engineer Otto Lilienthal proved human flight was possible - and gave his data away so the Wright brothers could finish the job.
How Bessie Coleman, a Texas sharecropper's daughter, sailed to France in 1920 to earn the pilot's license America denied her.
How the Douglas DC-3 made airlines profitable for the first time, then won a war as the C-47 Gooney Bird - and why it still flies today.
In 1924 the US Army Air Service flew Douglas World Cruisers around the globe in 175 days - the first flight around the world.