On February 2, 1970, an F-106 Delta Dart recovered from an unrecoverable flat spin without its pilot and belly-landed itself in a Montana cornfield.
TaildraggerOn September 16, 1979, two East German families crossed the Iron Curtain in a homemade hot air balloon, covering 28 km to freedom in Bavaria in under 30 minutes.
TaildraggerHow pilot Gail Halvorsen became the Candy Bomber of the Berlin Airlift, dropping candy on handkerchief parachutes over Tempelhof.
TaildraggerOperation Vittles - the 1948 Berlin Airlift - delivered 2.3 million tons of supplies across 277,000 flights to prove airpower could sustain life, not just end it.
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