The 1942 Doolittle Raid launched 16 B-25 bombers off the USS Hornet to strike Tokyo, a mission that reshaped the Pacific war.
TaildraggerGlenn Curtiss went from fastest man on Earth to inventing the seaplane and the trainer that taught America to fly.
TaildraggerHow Gladys Ingle of the Thirteen Black Cats changed an airplane wheel in mid-air, and why barnstorming built modern aviation.
TaildraggerOn July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot flew a 25-hp monoplane across the English Channel, ending England's age as an unreachable island.
TaildraggerHow Paul Poberezny turned a wrecked glider and a garage-built airplane into EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the world's largest fly-in.
TaildraggerThe Beechcraft Staggerwing's backward-staggered wings gave it speed and visibility - and today's restorers keep the vintage biplane gleaming at Oshkosh.
TaildraggerHow the Douglas DC-3 made airlines profitable for the first time and then carried paratroopers into Normandy as the C-47 Gooney Bird.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The Dream Chaser, the Lifting Body Lineage, and the Spaceplane That Lands on a Runway Like Something You Actually Fly.
VectorThe Ford Trimotor 'Tin Goose' helped launch U.S. air travel - and you can still buy a ride in one at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
TaildraggerHow the EAA and its volunteers keep Aluminum Overcast, one of the last airworthy B-17 bombers, flying at Oshkosh and across America.
TaildraggerBud Anderson flew the P-51 'Old Crow' to triple-ace status in WWII and never lost a single wingman across two combat tours.
TaildraggerHow Doc, one of only two flying B-29 Superfortresses, was rescued from a desert bombing range and rebuilt by the people who first built her.
TaildraggerHow Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning, was recovered from 268 feet of Greenland ice 50 years after crash-landing and flew again in 2002.
TaildraggerHow Howard Hughes's H-1 Racer set the 1935 landplane speed record and returned to Oshkosh decades later as an award-winning replica.
TaildraggerSteve Wittman was a legally blind air racer and self-taught engineer whose name Oshkosh's airport bears - and whose ideas still fly today.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Beaver became a legend because its makers asked bush pilots what they needed - power, big doors, and toughness.
TaildraggerHow the Gates Flying Circus sold over a million Americans their first airplane ride for a dollar and launched the barnstorming era.
TaildraggerHow the Piper J-3 Cub taught America to fly, went to war as the L-4 Grasshopper, and still swarms into Oshkosh every summer.
TaildraggerThe Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was WWII's biggest single-engine fighter, and its massive airframe is exactly why it brought so many pilots home.
TaildraggerThe Stinson Reliant Gullwing is a 1930s luxury cabin monoplane whose distinctive double-tapered wing still draws crowds at Oshkosh.
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