In 1911 Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz coast to coast in 84 days, becoming the first person to cross America by air despite missing the prize.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear, the King of the Wing Walkers, invented wing walking and the mid-air plane change before dying on film in 1920.
TaildraggerHow Noel Wien became Alaska's greatest bush pilot and the first to fly commercially between North America and Asia - by being careful.
TaildraggerThe story of Ormer Locklear, aviation's first great wing walker, and the searchlight signal that failed on the night he died.
TaildraggerIn 1911, Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz across America in 49 days and 19 crashes - the first coast-to-coast flight, though he never won the prize.
TaildraggerHow Alberto Santos-Dumont made Europe's first witnessed powered flight in 1906 and shaped aviation history.
TaildraggerIn 1911, Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz biplane across America in 84 days, crashing dozens of times to become the first to cross the continent by air.
TaildraggerIn 1911, Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz coast-to-coast in 49 days - the first flight across America, achieved after the prize was already lost.
TaildraggerHow the Gates Flying Circus and Clyde 'Upside-Down' Pangborn sold America its first airplane ride for a nickel and shaped a generation of pilots.
TaildraggerThe story of Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz, the first airplane to cross America in 1911, after 49 days and countless crashes.
TaildraggerOn July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot flew a 25-hp monoplane across the English Channel, ending England's age as an unreachable island.
TaildraggerHow Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz coast-to-coast in 1911, surviving 16 crashes to become the first person to fly across America.
TaildraggerThe story of Ormer Locklear, the first wing walker, who invented aerial stunting in barnstorming's golden age before dying at age 28.
TaildraggerLincoln Beachey was America's greatest early aviator, whose death-defying stunts from 1910 to 1915 transformed the airplane from curiosity to cultural icon.
TaildraggerOrmer Locklear climbed out of a moving Curtiss Jenny in 1917 to fix a loose radiator cap - and accidentally invented American barnstorming.
TaildraggerLincoln Beachey flew before 17 million Americans and was called the greatest aviator who ever lived by Orville Wright - before dying at age 28.
TaildraggerIn 1911, Cal Rodgers became the first person to fly across America in the Vin Fiz, surviving 49 days and 16 crashes.
TaildraggerLincoln Beachey, the most famous pilot of aviation's early era, died in a wing failure dive over San Francisco Bay in 1915.
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