PRU Pink and the Spy Spitfires That Flew Without Guns
The RAF's unarmed, pink-painted Photo Reconnaissance Unit Spitfires gathered the intelligence that shaped Allied strategy across every major WWII campaign.
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The North American X-15, the Rocket Plane That Flew to Space, and the Eight Pilots Who Earned Astronaut Wings Without Ever Riding a Capsule
The North American X-15 holds the all-time speed record for a winged aircraft and sent eight pilots to space - records that have stood for nearly sixty years.
VectorThe Schneider Trophy, the Supermarine S Six B, and the Air Race That Gave Birth to the Spitfire
The Schneider Trophy seaplane races of the 1920s and 1930s directly produced the engineering breakthroughs that made the Supermarine Spitfire - and Britain's survival in 1940 - possible.
TaildraggerCal Rodgers, the Vin Fiz, and the Forty-Nine Days It Took to Fly Across America When Nobody Had Ever Done It
In 1911, Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz coast to coast in 49 days - the first flight across America - despite dozens of crashes.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear, the Wing Walker Who Climbed Out of a Jenny at Sixty Miles an Hour and Turned the Whole Sky Into a Stage
How Texas daredevil Ormer Locklear invented wing walking on a Curtiss Jenny - and how his death shaped modern airshow safety.
TaildraggerThe Candy Bomber, Gail Halvorsen, and Operation Little Vittles Over Blockaded Berlin
The story of Gail Halvorsen, the Candy Bomber who dropped chocolate on parachutes to blockaded Berlin's children during the 1948 airlift.
TaildraggerThe Gimli Glider, Air Canada One Forty-Three, and the Brand-New Boeing Seven Sixty-Seven That Ran Out of Fuel at Forty-One Thousand Feet and Was Landed on a Drag Strip by a Glider Pilot
How Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet in 1983 and was glided to a safe landing on a Manitoba drag strip.
TaildraggerThe Grumman F6F Hellcat, the Ace Maker Built to Kill the Zero, and the Ironworks Fighter That Won the Pacific in Nineteen Months
The Grumman F6F Hellcat downed over 5,000 enemy aircraft in the Pacific with a 19-to-1 kill ratio, built to beat the Zero.
TaildraggerThe Lockheed C-130 Hercules First Flight, August Twenty-Third, Nineteen Fifty-Four, and the Ugly Duckling Kelly Johnson Swore Would Ruin the Company
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules first flew on August 23, 1954 - and Kelly Johnson swore the 'ugly' cargo plane would ruin Lockheed. He was wrong.
TaildraggerThe Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the Jug, and the Eight-Ton Fighter That Brought Its Pilots Home With Cylinders Shot Away
The story of the P-47 Thunderbolt, the eight-ton 'Jug' whose air-cooled toughness brought WWII pilots home from impossible damage.
TaildraggerThe X B Seventy Valkyrie, the Mach Three Bomber That Folded Its Wingtips to Ride Its Own Shockwave, and the Lone Survivor Standing in Dayton
Radio Hangar explores The X B Seventy Valkyrie, the Mach Three Bomber That Folded Its Wingtips to Ride Its Own Shockwave, and the Lone Survivor Standing in Dayton.
TaildraggerThrill Em Chill Em Gillam, Harold Gillam and the Alaska Bush Pilot Who Flew Blind Through Weather That Grounded Everyone Else
The story of Harold Gillam, the Alaska bush pilot who mastered instrument flight and flew through weather that grounded everyone else.
TaildraggerVoyager, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, and the Nine Days They Flew Around the World Without Landing or Taking On a Single Drop of Fuel
How Voyager and its crew flew nonstop around the world without refueling in 1986 - the design, the risks, and the record.
TaildraggerClyde Pangborn, Miss Veedol, and the First Nonstop Flight Across the Pacific, the Belly Landing in Wenatchee Nineteen Thirty-One
How Clyde Pangborn walked the wing of Miss Veedol over the Pacific in 1931 to complete the first nonstop transpacific flight.
TaildraggerNoel Wien, the Quiet Barnstormer Who Flew North of the Arctic Circle With No Map, No Radio, and No One Ahead of Him
How Noel Wien became the first pilot to cross the Arctic Circle in Alaska - and why his caution made him a legend.
TaildraggerPancho Barnes, the Fastest Woman in the World, and the Happy Bottom Riding Club at the Edge of the Sound Barrier
How Pancho Barnes became the fastest woman in the world and built the desert club at the heart of the supersonic age.
TaildraggerThat's All, Brother, the Lead C-47 of the D-Day Airborne Assault, Rescued From a Boneyard Conversion Line and Flown Home by Volunteers
How 'That's All, Brother,' the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne assault, was rescued from a scrap line and flown home by volunteers.
TaildraggerThe Boeing Three Oh Seven Stratoliner, the Clipper Flying Cloud, and the Only Survivor That Ditched in Elliott Bay and Came Back From the Bottom
The Boeing 307 Stratoliner was the first pressurized airliner - and its lone survivor sank in Elliott Bay in 2002 before being rebuilt again.
TaildraggerThe Hacienda, Bob Timm and John Cook, and the Sixty-Four Days a Cessna Stayed in the Air Over Las Vegas Without Ever Landing
How two men kept a Cessna 172 airborne for nearly 65 days over Las Vegas in 1958–59, setting a flight endurance record that still stands.
TaildraggerThe Vought F4U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Bird the Japanese Called Whistling Death, and the Fighter the Navy Sent to the Marines Before It Ever Earned the Carrier Deck
The story of the F4U Corsair, the 'Whistling Death' fighter too wild for carriers that the Marines turned into a legend.
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