The true story of Pardo's Push: how an F-4 pilot used his windscreen and a tailhook to shove a fuel-starved Phantom out of North Vietnam in 1967.
TaildraggerOn July 28, 1945, a B-25 bomber hit the Empire State Building in fog - and elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver survived a 75-story fall.
TaildraggerHow the Douglas DC-3 made air travel profitable, won a war as the Gooney Bird, and still flies for a living today.
TaildraggerThe Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka at the Udvar-Hazy Center was a rocket-powered suicide weapon - here's its grim history and why it matters.
TaildraggerOn March 6, 1990, an SR-71 Blackbird crossed the US in 67 minutes 54 seconds on its final flight to the Smithsonian.
TaildraggerHow Beryl Markham became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo east-to-west, crash-landing in a Nova Scotia bog in 1936.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The Bristol Blenheim, the Only One Left Flying, and the British Light Bomber That Was Restored Three Times Because Her People Refused to Let Her Die.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Comet launched the jet age on July 27, 1949, then its square windows revealed the deadly lesson of metal fatigue.
TaildraggerThe Gates Flying Circus gave over a million Americans their first airplane ride and helped turn a nation onto flight in the 1920s.
TaildraggerHow Captain Bob Pearson glided a fuel-starved Air Canada 767 to a dead-stick landing at Gimli using a slip every student pilot learns.
TaildraggerHow the 65-horsepower Piper J-3 Cub taught America to fly and trained the pilots who won World War II.
TaildraggerThe story of the F4U Corsair, the gull-winged 'Whistling Death' the Navy nearly abandoned before the Marines made it a WWII legend.
TaildraggerHow Voyager and the Rutan team flew nonstop around the world in 1986, landing with just 18 gallons of fuel to spare.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman crossed the Atlantic to become the first Black and Native American woman to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerOn September 24, 1929, Jimmy Doolittle flew from takeoff to landing entirely on instruments, launching the age of instrument flight.
TaildraggerHow barnstormer Ormer Locklear and the surplus Curtiss Jenny sold America its first airplane ride after World War I.
TaildraggerHow Pancho Barnes became the fastest woman on earth and built the desert club where test pilots broke the sound barrier.
TaildraggerIn 1958-59, two men kept a Cessna 172 airborne over Las Vegas for 64 days without landing - a record that still stands today.
TaildraggerHow the slow, homely Douglas SBD Dauntless sank four Japanese carriers at Midway and turned the Pacific War in five minutes.
TaildraggerThe 1924 Douglas World Cruiser Chicago made the first flight around the world - and still hangs in the Smithsonian today.
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