How one-eyed Oklahoma roughneck Wiley Post flew solo around the world and discovered the jet stream in a wooden airplane.
TaildraggerHow John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a converted Vickers Vimy bomber across the Atlantic nonstop in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh.
TaildraggerHow a WWII B-29 named Doc went from a Mojave bombing target to one of only two airworthy Superfortresses, restored by volunteers in Wichita.
TaildraggerHow Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning, was cut from under 268 feet of Greenland ice and flew again 50 years later.
TaildraggerHow Jimmy Doolittle's 15-minute blind flight in 1929 invented instrument flying and changed aviation forever.
TaildraggerHow Roscoe Turner, the showman with a lion co-pilot, became the only pilot to win the Thompson Trophy three times.
TaildraggerThe story of the Piper J-3 Cub, the $1,000 yellow airplane that taught America to fly and trained most WWII pilots.
TaildraggerThe Spruce Goose flew just one mile for 26 seconds in 1947, yet still holds the record for the longest wingspan of any aircraft ever flown.
TaildraggerHow Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz made the first flight across America in 1911, surviving 16 crashes over 49 days.
TaildraggerHow Flak-Bait, a B-26 Marauder, flew 207 combat missions in WWII and is now being conserved piece by piece at the Smithsonian.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Operation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level B Twenty-Four Raid on the Ploesti Oil Refineries, August First, Nineteen Forty-Three.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear invented professional wing-walking and the deadly plane-to-plane 'Dance of Death' - until a 1920 film stunt killed him at 28.
TaildraggerHow test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Boeing Dash 80 over Lake Washington in 1955 and sold the world on jets.
TaildraggerHow the wooden de Havilland Mosquito, built by furniture makers, outran WWII fighters and flew a dozen combat roles.
TaildraggerThe Hawker Hurricane, not the Spitfire, downed the majority of Luftwaffe aircraft in the Battle of Britain - here's the full story.
TaildraggerThe story of the Lockheed Constellation, the triple-tailed airliner Howard Hughes ordered in secret to fly higher and faster than anything in the sky.
TaildraggerThe XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach 3 bomber made obsolete by missiles; the last one survives at the Air Force museum in Dayton.
TaildraggerHow Voyager made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in 1986, landing with under 50 pounds of fuel to spare.
TaildraggerHow Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic east to west in 1936, into the wind.
TaildraggerHow Bob Hoover poured iced tea while flying upside down - and the two-engine-out energy routine that made him the finest stick-and-rudder pilot ever.
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