Radio Hangar explores The Night Witches, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment and the Wood-and-Canvas Biplanes Soviet Women Flew With the Engine Cut.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a $310 Curtiss Robin across the Atlantic in 1938 and blamed a backwards compass.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license - by learning French and sailing to France when no U.S. school would teach her.
TaildraggerHow bush pilot Bob Reeve pioneered glacier flying and made the 1937 Walsh Glacier landing that nearly cost him his life and his airplane.
TaildraggerHow Doc, a B-29 that sat 40 years as a desert missile target, was restored to flight by Wichita volunteers over 16 years.
TaildraggerHow RAF ace Douglas Bader lost both legs, flew Spitfires on tin legs, and had the enemy parachute him a spare.
TaildraggerHow the RAF sent one aging Avro Vulcan and eleven tankers nearly 8,000 miles to bomb Port Stanley in the longest raid ever flown.
TaildraggerHow Army instructor Ormer Locklear invented wing-walking in 1918 and died filming a Hollywood stunt in 1920, shaping modern aviation.
TaildraggerThe Cornfield Bomber is an F-106 that recovered from a flat spin and belly-landed itself in Montana in 1970 after its pilot ejected.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The de Havilland Mosquito, the Wooden Wonder Built by Furniture Makers That Outran Every Fighter in the Sky.
TaildraggerHow Bryan Allen pedaled the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel in 1979, achieving the first human-powered crossing.
TaildraggerHow the Schneider Trophy seaplane races and the Supermarine S.6B gave birth to the Spitfire that saved Britain in 1940.
TaildraggerThe XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach-3 bomber that flew only twice, lost one aircraft in a 1966 photo-shoot crash, and survives in Dayton, Ohio.
TaildraggerHow Voyager and its crew flew nonstop around the world in 1986 - no landings, no refueling, and 18 gallons to spare.
TaildraggerIn June 1919, Alcock and Brown flew the first nonstop transatlantic flight, eight years before Lindbergh.
TaildraggerFlak-Bait, the B-26 Marauder that survived 207 combat missions, is being conserved - not restored - at the Smithsonian with every scar intact.
TaildraggerHow Jacqueline Cochran rose from a Florida sawmill camp to set more aviation records than any pilot in history.
TaildraggerHow Noel Wien flew a brakeless 1924 Standard biplane across an unmapped Alaska and wrote the rulebook for bush flying.
TaildraggerHow the Dambusters used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach Germany's Ruhr dams in 1943 - the physics, the flying, and the cost.
TaildraggerThe true story of Pardo's Push, when an F-4 pilot used his windshield to shove a crippled wingman out of North Vietnam in 1967.
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