In 1911, Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz across America in 49 days and 19 crashes - the first coast-to-coast flight, though he never won the prize.
TaildraggerHow Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon made the first nonstop transpacific flight in 1931 by jettisoning their landing gear.
TaildraggerBefore the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh spent four barnstorming years wing-walking, parachuting, and teaching himself to fly a surplus Jenny.
TaildraggerHow pilot Gail Halvorsen became the Candy Bomber of the Berlin Airlift, dropping candy on handkerchief parachutes over Tempelhof.
TaildraggerOn March 10, 1967, Captain Bob Pardo pushed a crippled F-4 Phantom out of North Vietnam using his own windscreen - the legendary Pardo's Push.
TaildraggerThe Swamp Ghost is a B-17E bomber that sat in a New Guinea swamp for 64 years before recovery - now the only intact combat B-17E in the world.
TaildraggerHow the de Havilland Mosquito, built from wood in furniture shops, became WWII's fastest bomber and outran every fighter sent to catch it.
TaildraggerThe P-47 Thunderbolt, the heavy 'Jug,' was built around a turbosupercharger and became WWII's toughest fighter-bomber.
TaildraggerThe story of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, the wooden flying boat that flew just once in 1947 and outlived every critic.
TaildraggerHow Voyager flew around the world nonstop and unrefueled in 1986, the last great milestone of atmospheric flight.
TaildraggerHow Alcock and Brown made the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh reached Paris.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman sailed to France in 1920 to become the first Black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerHow Douglas Bader lost both legs in a 1931 crash, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain on two tin legs, and scored 20.5 victories.
TaildraggerHow a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice for 50 years was melted out, restored, and flown again as Glacier Girl.
TaildraggerThe story of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club, the desert bar where sound-barrier test pilots learned to be human.
TaildraggerRoscoe Turner flew a real lion cub as his copilot and won the Thompson Trophy three times - a record no pilot ever matched.
TaildraggerThe Douglas DC-3 first flew in 1935 and still hauls freight worldwide 90 years later - here's why it was never truly replaced.
TaildraggerHow the Soviet 588th 'Night Witches' turned an obsolete wood-and-fabric biplane into a fearsome night bomber on the Eastern Front.
TaildraggerHow the Thirteen Black Cats turned 1920s Hollywood stunt flying into a business with a printed price list for every deadly aerial trick.
TaildraggerHow Alberto Santos-Dumont made Europe's first witnessed powered flight in 1906 and shaped aviation history.
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