How Benny Howard's homebuilt Mister Mulligan won both the 1935 Bendix and Thompson trophies - the only airplane ever to do it.
TaildraggerHow Minnesota farmer Bernard Pietenpol bolted a Ford Model A engine to a homebuilt airplane and launched the entire experimental aviation movement.
TaildraggerHow Curtis Pitts and pilot Betty Skelton turned a homemade Florida biplane into the airplane that taught the world to roll.
TaildraggerHow 1920s barnstormers turned surplus Jennies and farmers' hay fields into flying's first schools - and why Oshkosh carries on their legacy.
TaildraggerThe Beechcraft Staggerwing's backward-staggered wings made this 1930s luxury biplane faster than fighters - here's the real story.
TaildraggerThe Boeing Stearman 'Yellow Peril' trained WWII pilots, then survived as a crop duster - here's how restorers bring it back to life.
TaildraggerThe North American T-6 Texan trained more military pilots than any aircraft in history - and its supersonic prop tips still own the Oshkosh warbird ramp.
TaildraggerThe North American T-6 Texan, the 'Pilot Maker,' trained a generation of WWII fighter pilots and still fills the warbird ramp at Oshkosh.
TaildraggerHow Wiley Post, a one-eyed Oklahoma pilot, flew the Winnie Mae solo around the world in 1933 and pioneered the pressure suit.
TaildraggerHow EAA volunteers saved B-17 'Aluminum Overcast' - a bomber that missed WWII by five days - and kept her flying as living history.
TaildraggerThe story of Bob Hoover, the legendary pilot who flew aerobatics with both engines dead and poured iced tea while rolling upside down.
TaildraggerHow Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 on October 14, 1947 - with two cracked ribs and a sawed-off broomstick.
TaildraggerHow volunteers pulled the B-29 Doc off a desert bombing range and spent 16 years restoring her to flight.
TaildraggerHow Paul Poberezny founded the EAA in his Milwaukee basement in 1953 and sparked the entire homebuilt aircraft movement.
TaildraggerSteve Wittman was the self-taught Wisconsin racer whose homebuilt speed machines and spring-steel landing gear earned him a legacy - and Oshkosh's airport its name.
TaildraggerHow $50 surplus Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny' biplanes launched the barnstorming era and put ordinary Americans in the sky.
TaildraggerHow Canadian bush pilots wrote the spec for the de Havilland Beaver in 1947, creating a floatplane that still works worldwide today.
TaildraggerThe Ford Tri-Motor 'Tin Goose' is a 1920s corrugated-metal airliner you can still buy a ride on today, thanks to the EAA at Oshkosh.
TaildraggerThe story of the Gee Bee Super Sportster, the barrel-shaped racer Jimmy Doolittle flew to 296 mph in 1932 - and why it wasn't the murderer history claimed.
TaildraggerHow the Piper J-3 Cub, a 65-horsepower yellow taildragger, taught most of a generation of American pilots to fly.
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