Thomas Fitzpatrick and the stolen Piper that landed on a Manhattan street twice to win a bar bet
Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a Piper from Teterboro and landed it on a Manhattan street twice—in 1956 and 1958—to win bar bets.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the last flight of the pilot who wrote The Little Prince
The story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the airmail pilot and wartime reconnaissance flyer who wrote The Little Prince and vanished over the Mediterranean in 1944.
TaildraggerFive military aircraft that refused to retire and the engineering that keeps them flying
Five military aircraft have served for over 60 years each, and the engineering principles behind their longevity apply to all of aviation.
TowerLady Be Good, the ghost bomber of the Sahara that waited sixteen years to be found
The B-24 Lady Be Good vanished over the Sahara in 1943 and was found intact sixteen years later, four hundred miles past its base.
TaildraggerThe Gimli Glider and the seven sixty-seven that ran out of gas at forty-one thousand feet
How a metric conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 without fuel at 41,000 feet, and a glider pilot landed a 767 with no engines.
TaildraggerBob Hoover and the greatest stick-and-rudder flying the world has ever seen
Bob Hoover, called the greatest stick-and-rudder pilot ever by Jimmy Doolittle, redefined airmanship through six decades of flying.
TaildraggerChuck Yeager and the broken ribs that almost kept him from breaking the sound barrier
How Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, with two broken ribs and a nine-inch piece of broom handle.
TaildraggerDoc the B twenty-nine Superfortress and the sixteen-year restoration that defied the impossible
The 16-year restoration of B-29 Superfortress 'Doc' from desert hulk to flying warbird is one of aviation's greatest preservation stories.
TaildraggerTex Johnston and the day Boeing's test pilot barrel-rolled a jet airliner over Lake Washington
How test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled Boeing's only jet airliner prototype over Lake Washington in 1955 — and helped launch the jet age.
TaildraggerThe death of the Red Baron on April twenty-first, nineteen eighteen
The Red Baron died on April 21, 1918, after breaking his own combat rules—and over a century later, his killer remains disputed.
TaildraggerWrong Way Corrigan and the most famous navigational mistake that fooled absolutely nobody
Douglas Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from New York to Ireland in 1938, claiming it was a navigational error nobody believed.
TaildraggerBeryl Markham and the solo flight west across the Atlantic that nobody remembers
Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic east to west in 1936, then vanished from history for fifty years.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Mosquito and the impossible quest to fly the Wooden Wonder again
The decades-long quest to return the de Havilland Mosquito to flight demanded lost woodworking skills, wartime materials, and extraordinary determination.
TaildraggerWrong Way Corrigan and the most deliberate accident in aviation history
Douglas Corrigan 'accidentally' flew from New York to Ireland in 1938 after being denied permission for years.
TaildraggerBob Hoover, the pilot's pilot who stole a Focke-Wulf from the Nazis
Bob Hoover escaped a Nazi POW camp, stole a Focke-Wulf 190, and became the greatest demonstration pilot in aviation history.
TaildraggerGlacier Girl and the P thirty-eight pulled from beneath two hundred sixty-eight feet of Greenland ice
The story of Glacier Girl, a WWII P-38 Lightning recovered from 268 feet beneath Greenland's ice cap and restored to flying condition.
TaildraggerJerrie Mock becomes the first woman to fly solo around the world
On April 17, 1964, Jerrie Mock became the first woman to fly solo around the world in a Cessna 180 named Spirit of Columbus.
TaildraggerThe Cornfield Bomber, the F one oh six that landed itself
The true story of an F-106 Delta Dart that recovered from a flat spin and landed itself in a Montana cornfield in 1970.
TaildraggerThe Fokker Trimotor and the golden age of bush flying
The Fokker Trimotor bridged barnstorming and commercial aviation, shaping bush flying and aircraft design after a fatal 1931 crash.
TowerWrong Way Corrigan and the greatest wink in aviation history
Douglas Corrigan flew a beat-up Curtiss Robin from New York to Ireland in 1938, claiming he read his compass wrong.
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