How Benny Howard's homebuilt Mister Mulligan won both the 1935 Bendix and Thompson trophies - the only airplane ever to do it.
TaildraggerThe story of the Gee Bee Super Sportster, the barrel-shaped racer Jimmy Doolittle flew to 296 mph in 1932 - and why it wasn't the murderer history claimed.
TaildraggerHow showman-pilot Roscoe Turner flew with a pet lion named Gilmore and became the only man to win the Thompson Trophy three times.
TaildraggerRoscoe Turner won the Thompson Trophy three times - the only pilot in history to do so - combining elite flying skill with deliberate, strategic self-promotion during aviation's golden age.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee Super Sportster was the fastest piston racer of the 1930s - a machine so demanding it required genius to fly and cost its creators everything to build.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The Cleveland National Air Races and Jimmy Doolittle winning the first Thompson Trophy in the Travel Air Mystery Ship, nineteen twenty-nine.
TaildraggerThe 1949 Berea crash that killed pilot Bill Odom and two bystanders ended the Cleveland National Air Races and reshaped airshow safety forever.
TaildraggerHow a secret civilian racer from Wichita humiliated every military fighter at the 1929 Cleveland Air Races and changed American aviation.
TaildraggerThe 1949 Cleveland Air Races disaster killed a pilot, a mother, and her infant son, ending America's golden age of air racing forever.
TaildraggerRoscoe Turner won three Thompson Trophies, flew with a lion cub, and became the greatest air racing pilot of the 1930s.
TaildraggerThe Gee Bee Super Sportster was the fastest and most dangerous racing airplane of the 1930s, built by five self-taught brothers in a converted dance hall.
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