The Lady Be Good and the B-twenty-four Liberator lost in the Sahara for fifteen years
The Lady Be Good, a B-24 Liberator lost in 1943, sat perfectly preserved in the Sahara for 15 years before discovery.
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The Travel Air Mystery Ship and the civilian racer that humiliated every military fighter at the nineteen twenty-nine Cleveland Air Races
How a secret civilian racer from Wichita humiliated every military fighter at the 1929 Cleveland Air Races and changed American aviation.
TaildraggerChuck Yeager and the broken ribs that rode through the sound barrier on October fourteenth, nineteen forty-seven
How Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the Bell X-1 with two cracked ribs and a broomstick.
TaildraggerTen scrapped aircraft programs that ambition built and history buried
Ten ambitious aircraft programs that were cancelled before production, from nuclear-powered bombers to forward-swept wing fighters.
TowerWiley Post and the one-eyed pilot who flew around the world alone
Wiley Post lost an eye in an oil field accident, then flew solo around the world and invented the first practical pressure suit.
TaildraggerDoc the B-twenty-nine Superfortress and the sixty-year resurrection from a weapons range in the Mojave Desert
How a B-29 Superfortress abandoned on a Navy weapons range was restored to flight over nearly two decades by volunteers in Wichita.
TaildraggerLincoln Beachey and the dive that silenced the man who owned the sky over San Francisco Bay
Lincoln Beachey, the most famous pilot of aviation's early era, died in a wing failure dive over San Francisco Bay in 1915.
TaildraggerMathias Rust and the teenage Cessna pilot who landed in Red Square
In 1987, 19-year-old Mathias Rust flew a rented Cessna 172 from Helsinki to Moscow's Red Square, exposing Soviet air defense failures and reshaping Cold War politics.
TaildraggerTex Johnston and the barrel roll that sold the Boeing seven oh seven
How test pilot Tex Johnston's unauthorized barrel roll of the Boeing Dash 80 prototype helped launch the 707 and the jet age.
TaildraggerThe Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst and the thirty-seven seconds that ended the age of the airship on May sixth, nineteen thirty-seven
The Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst on May 6, 1937 destroyed the world's largest airship in 37 seconds and ended rigid airship travel forever.
TaildraggerWrong Way Corrigan and the transatlantic flight nobody was supposed to believe
Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew from New York to Dublin in 1938, claiming he meant to go to California — and never admitted otherwise.
TaildraggerJacqueline Cochran and the orphan girl who became the fastest woman alive
Jacqueline Cochran rose from barefoot poverty to become the fastest woman alive, breaking the sound barrier and holding more aviation records than any pilot in history.
TaildraggerWilliam Rankin and the forty-minute fall through a thunderstorm at forty-seven thousand feet
In 1959, Marine pilot William Rankin ejected at 47,000 feet and survived 40 minutes inside a thunderstorm.
TaildraggerAmy Johnson and the solo flight from England to Australia that began on May fourth, nineteen thirty
On May 4, 1930, Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in a secondhand biplane with just 75 hours in her logbook.
TaildraggerEric Winkle Brown and the Royal Navy test pilot who flew more aircraft types than anyone in history
Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown flew 487 aircraft types and made 2,407 carrier landings, records no pilot will likely ever break.
TaildraggerThe Cornfield Bomber and the F-106 Delta Dart that landed itself in a Montana field
The true story of an F-106 Delta Dart that recovered from an unrecoverable flat spin and landed itself in a Montana wheat field in 1970.
TaildraggerThirty Years of the Boeing Triple Seven and why the best-selling widebody is still the airplane airlines reach for first
The Boeing 777 marks 30 years as the best-selling long-haul widebody in commercial aviation history, with over 2,000 deliveries.
TowerOakley Kelly and John Macready and the nonstop transcontinental flight that nearly killed them both on May third, nineteen twenty-three
On May 3, 1923, Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John Macready completed the first nonstop transcontinental flight across the United States.
TaildraggerPancho Barnes and the fastest woman alive who built a desert saloon for test pilots
Pancho Barnes broke speed records, organized Hollywood stunt pilots, and built the legendary bar where test pilots gathered after breaking the sound barrier.
TaildraggerSaburo Sakai and the four-hour flight home with a bullet through his skull over Guadalcanal
How Saburo Sakai flew nearly five hours home with a bullet in his skull after being shot over Guadalcanal in 1942.
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