The five oldest airports in Canada still flying after a century
Five Canadian airports dating back to the 1920s are still operating today, from Winnipeg's 1920 grass strip to Vancouver International.
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Roscoe Turner and the lion cub who rode shotgun in the Golden Age of air racing
Roscoe Turner flew across America with a lion in the cockpit and won the Thompson Trophy three times, becoming aviation's greatest showman.
TaildraggerThe Boeing two seven oh seven, America's supersonic dream that Congress grounded forever
The Boeing 2707 was America's audacious supersonic airliner program, killed by Congress in 1971 after a billion dollars and zero flying prototypes.
TowerThe five oldest airports in California still operating in twenty twenty-six
California's five oldest airports still operating in 2026 span from 1923 to 1930, each with deep roots in American aviation history.
TowerThe Phantom Fortress and the B-seventeen that landed itself with nobody on board
A crewless B-17 Flying Fortress landed itself in a Belgian field in 1944 after all nine crew members bailed out.
TaildraggerDoc the B-29 Superfortress and the sixteen-year restoration that dragged a bomber out of the Mojave Desert and back into the sky
The sixteen-year restoration of B-29 'Doc' brought a desert hulk back to flight, making it one of only two flying Superfortresses worldwide.
TaildraggerLeslie Irvin and the first intentional free-fall parachute jump on April twenty-eighth, nineteen nineteen
On April 28, 1919, Leslie Irvin made the first intentional free-fall parachute jump, proving humans stay conscious in free fall.
TaildraggerThe Farnborough disaster of nineteen fifty-two and the day the DH one ten broke apart over the crowd
The 1952 Farnborough airshow disaster killed 31 people and transformed airshow safety regulations worldwide.
TaildraggerWiley Post and the one-eyed Oklahoma farm boy who flew around the world twice and discovered the jet stream
Wiley Post lost an eye in an oilfield accident, bought his first airplane with the insurance money, and changed aviation forever.
TaildraggerJackie Cochran and the orphan girl who became the fastest woman alive
Jackie Cochran rose from barefoot orphan to the fastest woman alive, breaking the sound barrier and holding over 200 flight records.
TaildraggerThe Cornfield Bomber and the F one oh six that landed itself after the pilot punched out
The true story of an F-106 Delta Dart that recovered from a flat spin and landed itself in a Montana cornfield after its pilot ejected in 1970.
TaildraggerThe first flight of the Airbus A three eighty on April twenty-seventh, two thousand five
On April 27, 2005, the Airbus A380 — the largest commercial airplane ever built — made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
TaildraggerThe bombing of Guernica on April twenty-sixth, nineteen thirty-seven and the afternoon that changed aerial warfare forever
On April 26, 1937, the Condor Legion bombed the Basque town of Guernica in a three-hour attack that changed aerial warfare forever.
TaildraggerBob Timm and John Cook and the Cessna one seventy-two that stayed airborne for sixty-four days
In 1958-59, Bob Timm and John Cook kept a stock Cessna 172 airborne for 64 days, setting a record that still stands.
TaildraggerEugene Bullard, the first Black combat pilot who flew for France because America wouldn't let him
Eugene Bullard, born in Georgia in 1895, became the first Black combat pilot in history, flying for France because America refused him.
TaildraggerJimmy Angel and the crash landing on top of the world's tallest waterfall
Jimmy Angel crashed his Flamingo monoplane atop Venezuela's Auyán-tepui in 1937, proving the world's tallest waterfall existed.
TaildraggerThe Grande Semaine d'Aviation at Reims and the week in nineteen oh nine that invented the airshow
The 1909 Grande Semaine d'Aviation at Reims, France, was the event that transformed flying from a curiosity into a global industry.
TaildraggerArt Scholl and the final inverted spin that the cameras never stopped rolling on
Art Scholl, one of the greatest aerobatic pilots in history, died filming a flat spin sequence for Top Gun in 1985.
TaildraggerLouise Thaden and the Staggerwing that won the nineteen thirty-six Bendix Trophy
Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes won the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race outright in a Beechcraft Staggerwing, beating every male competitor.
TaildraggerThe Douglas World Cruisers and the Alaskan gauntlet on the first flight around the world
How four open-cockpit biplanes attempted the first flight around the world in 1924, and why Alaska nearly ended it all.
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