The Hangar Sep 30, 2026The Granville Brothers, the Gee Bee Super Sportster, and the Springfield Barrel That Made the Thompson Trophy Both Beautiful and DeadlyThe Gee Bee Super Sportster was the fastest propeller-driven aircraft in America in the early 1930s - and its extreme design left fingerprints on every WWII fighter that followed.Taildragger
The Hangar Sep 12, 2026The Granville Brothers, the Gee Bee Racers, and the Most Beautiful Dangerous Thing That Ever Flew Over ClevelandThe Granville Brothers built the fastest - and most dangerous - racing aircraft of the 1930s, winning the 1932 Thompson Trophy at 252 mph.Taildragger
The Hangar Jul 27, 2026Wrong Way Corrigan, the Curtiss Robin, and the Twenty-Eight Hour Mistake That Flew From Brooklyn to DublinHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a $310 Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Dublin in 1938 and called it an accident.Taildragger
The Hangar May 6, 2026Wrong Way Corrigan and the transatlantic flight nobody was supposed to believeDouglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew from New York to Dublin in 1938, claiming he meant to go to California - and never admitted otherwise.Taildragger