How Bob Reeve turned Alaska's Valdez mudflats into a runway with metal-shod skis and became a legendary glacier pilot.
TaildraggerIn 1911 Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz coast to coast in 84 days, becoming the first person to cross America by air despite missing the prize.
TaildraggerOn August 17, 1978, Double Eagle II became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic, ending a century of failed attempts and 13 deaths.
TaildraggerHow Eric 'Winkle' Brown flew 487 aircraft types and made the first jet carrier landing in history.
TaildraggerHow Ivan Gates and pilot Clyde Pangborn built the Gates Flying Circus and flew a million Americans on their first flights.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Just Jane, the Avro Lancaster November X Six One One, and the Two Lincolnshire Farmers Who Bought a Bomber to Bring Their Brother Home.
TaildraggerHow Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the $16 million Dash 80 prototype over Seattle in 1955 and sold the world on the jet age.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle flew 25 missions, rotted for decades in the open, then took 13 years to restore for Dayton.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches flew wood-and-canvas biplanes over the German lines at night with their engines cut - here's their story.
TaildraggerHow the F4U Corsair's inverted gull wing, 2,000-hp engine, and whistling scream made it one of WWII's greatest fighters.
TaildraggerIn 1986, Voyager flew nonstop around the world unrefueled - here's the full story of that record-setting nine-day flight.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman sailed to France in 1920 to become the first Black woman and first Native American woman to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerThe story of Bob Hoover, the 'pilot's pilot' who poured iced tea while barrel-rolling and stole a Focke-Wulf to escape a WWII POW camp.
TaildraggerHow a B-29 named Doc survived 20 years as a desert bombing target and flew again after 300,000 volunteer hours.
TaildraggerHow the B-26 Marauder Flak-Bait flew ~207 combat missions without losing a crewman - and why the Smithsonian is conserving her rivet by rivet.
TaildraggerOn August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger stepped from a balloon 102,800 feet up and set records that stood for 52 years.
TaildraggerHow the Dam Busters of 617 Squadron used a bouncing bomb to breach Germany's Ruhr dams at 60 feet in the dark on 16 May 1943.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, invented wing walking and the mid-air plane change before dying on film in 1920.
TaildraggerHow Gail Halvorsen's two sticks of gum sparked the Berlin Candy Bomber legend during the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift.
TaildraggerHow the Douglas DC-3 became the first airplane to make airlines profitable - and why it's still flying freight nearly 90 years later.
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