Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, and the Man Who Landed on Ice Nobody Thought You Could Touch
How Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, invented Alaska glacier flying from $2 and a stainless-steel bar top.
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Charles Kingsford Smith, the Southern Cross, and the First Flight Across the Pacific in Nineteen Twenty-Eight
Radio Hangar explores Charles Kingsford Smith, the Southern Cross, and the First Flight Across the Pacific in Nineteen Twenty-Eight.
TaildraggerFIFI, the B Twenty-Nine Superfortress the Confederate Air Force Pulled Off a Desert Missile Range and the Twenty Million Dollar Rebuild That Kept Her Flying
How FIFI, a B-29 rescued from a desert missile range in 1971, became the world's last flying Superfortress - and the rebuild that saved her again.
TaildraggerGlacier Girl, the P Thirty-Eight Lightning Pulled From Two Hundred Sixty-Eight Feet of Greenland Ice, and the Lost Squadron That Waited Fifty Years to Fly Again
How a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice for 50 years was recovered and restored to flight as Glacier Girl.
TaildraggerNational Aviation Day, August Nineteenth, and the Birthday That Became a Holiday for Everyone Who Flies
National Aviation Day falls on August 19 each year, marking Orville Wright's birthday and celebrating a century-plus of powered flight.
TowerOtto Lilienthal, the Glider King of Berlin, and the Man Who Jumped Off a Hill Two Thousand Times So the Wright Brothers Wouldn't Have To
How German engineer Otto Lilienthal proved human flight was possible - and gave his data away so the Wright brothers could finish the job.
TaildraggerQueen Bess, Bessie Coleman, and the Texas Sharecropper's Daughter Who Sailed to France to Earn a Pilot's License America Wouldn't Give Her
How Bessie Coleman, a Texas sharecropper's daughter, sailed to France in 1920 to earn the pilot's license America denied her.
TaildraggerThe Douglas DC-3, the Gooney Bird That Taught the Airlines How to Make Money and Then Went to War
How the Douglas DC-3 made airlines profitable for the first time, then won a war as the C-47 Gooney Bird - and why it still flies today.
TaildraggerThe Douglas World Cruisers and the First Flight Around the World in Nineteen Twenty-Four
In 1924 the US Army Air Service flew Douglas World Cruisers around the globe in 175 days - the first flight around the world.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches, the Polikarpov Po-2 Biplanes That Cut Their Engines to Glide Silent Over the German Lines, and the Women Who Flew Eighteen Bombing Runs a Night
The Night Witches flew plywood Po-2 biplanes on up to 18 silent night bombing runs, becoming WWII's most feared women aviators.
TaildraggerThe Travel Air Mystery Ship, Doug Davis, and the Secret Wichita Monoplane That Beat the Army and Navy at Cleveland in Nineteen Twenty-Nine
How the Travel Air Mystery Ship, flown by Doug Davis, beat the Army and Navy at the 1929 Cleveland air races.
TaildraggerGlenn Curtiss, the Fastest Man on Earth, and the Motorcycle Racer Who Flew the June Bug and Then Taught the Navy to Land on a Ship
How motorcycle racer Glenn Curtiss became the 'Fastest Man on Earth,' invented the flying boat, and gave the U.S. Navy its first aircraft.
TaildraggerPancho Barnes, the Happy Bottom Riding Club, and the Fastest Woman in the World Who Poured the Drinks for the Men Who Broke the Sound Barrier
How Pancho Barnes, the fastest woman alive in 1930, built the desert club where test pilots gathered before breaking the sound barrier.
TaildraggerR.J. Mitchell, the Supermarine Spitfire, and the Dying Designer Who Drew the Elliptical Wing While the Clock Ran Out
How a dying R.J. Mitchell designed the Supermarine Spitfire's elliptical wing and died in 1937, before it saved Britain.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee Model R, the Granville Brothers' Flying Barrel, and Jimmy Doolittle's Two Hundred Fifty-Two Mile-an-Hour Gamble Over Cleveland
How Jimmy Doolittle tamed the deadly Gee Bee Model R to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy at 252 mph - then walked away for good.
TaildraggerThe Gimli Glider, Air Canada Flight One Forty-Three, and the Boeing Seven Sixty-Seven That Ran Out of Fuel at Forty-One Thousand Feet and Landed on a Drag Strip
How Air Canada Flight 143 ran both engines dry at 41,000 feet in 1983 and glided to a safe landing on a drag strip.
TaildraggerThe Hardest Day, August Eighteenth, Nineteen Forty, and the Battle of Britain's Bloodiest Afternoon Over Kent
On August 18, 1940 - the Battle of Britain's 'Hardest Day' - the RAF and Luftwaffe suffered their heaviest single-day losses over Kent.
TaildraggerThe Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the Jug, and the Eight-Ton Fighter That Could Take a Beating and Still Bring You Home
The story of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - the eight-ton 'Jug' that outdove enemy fighters and brought its pilots home riddled with holes.
TaildraggerThe Thirteen Black Cats, the Stunt Pilots of Burdett Field, and the Price List That Turned Barnstorming Into a Business
How the Thirteen Black Cats organized at Burdett Field in 1925 and used a fixed price list to turn barnstorming into a real profession.
TaildraggerVulcan X H Five Five Eight, The Spirit of Great Britain, and the Volunteers Who Coaxed a Cold War Delta Back Into the Sky
How volunteers and public donations returned Avro Vulcan XH558, the last flying Vulcan, to the sky from 2007 to 2015.
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