In 1911, Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz biplane across America in 84 days, crashing dozens of times to become the first to cross the continent by air.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Doc, the B-29 Superfortress That Spent Forty Years as a Bombing Target in the Mojave Before a Handful of Volunteers Brought Her Back to the Sky.
TaildraggerHow RAF ace Douglas Bader lost both legs in a 1931 crash, flew Spitfires on tin legs, and became a Battle of Britain hero.
TaildraggerHow Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb and 617 Squadron's Lancaster crews broke Germany's Ruhr dams in the May 1943 Dambusters raid.
TaildraggerThe airport dog is a fixture of general aviation ramp culture - a greeter, judge of character, and living link to a century of flying tradition.
RampThe de Havilland Mosquito was a wooden WWII bomber built by furniture and piano makers that outran the Spitfire and became a legend.
TaildraggerHow the Douglas DC-3 made airlines profitable, won a war as the C-47, and became the longest-serving working aircraft ever built.
TaildraggerIn 1924, four US Army biplanes attempted the first flight around the world - two survived to complete the 26,000-mile journey.
TaildraggerHow the Gates Flying Circus and pilot Clyde Pangborn gave a million Americans their first airplane ride in the 1920s.
TaildraggerHow Captain Bob Pearson glided a fuel-starved Air Canada 767 to a dead-stick landing at Gimli in 1983.
TaildraggerThe story of the Rutan Voyager, the featherweight aircraft that flew nonstop around the world in 1986 without refueling.
TaildraggerIn January 1929, pilots Wop May and Vic Horner flew diphtheria serum 600 miles into Arctic Alberta in an open-cockpit biplane.
TaildraggerBessie Coleman crossed the Atlantic and learned French to earn the pilot's license America denied her, becoming the first Black woman to fly.
TaildraggerOn March 6, 1990, SR-71 Blackbird 972 flew Los Angeles to Washington in 64 minutes on its final flight to the Smithsonian.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Flak-Bait, the Martin B-Twenty-Six Marauder That Flew Two Hundred and Seven Missions and Refused to Die, Now Coming Back to Life Piece by Piece at the Smithsonian.
TaildraggerHow barnstormer Ormer Locklear pioneered midair plane changes and died filming a stunt for The Skywayman in 1920.
TaildraggerHow Robin Olds and his F-4 Phantoms disguised themselves as bombers to ambush North Vietnamese MiGs on January 2, 1967.
TaildraggerThe story of the Lockheed Constellation, the triple-tailed airliner Howard Hughes ordered in secret and Kelly Johnson shaped into a legend.
TaildraggerIn 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith flew the Southern Cross across the Pacific from California to Australia - aviation's greatest overwater feat.
TaildraggerHow the Vought F4U Corsair went from 'unsuitable for carriers' to the Marine Corps' legendary Whistling Death fighter.
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