Doc, the last B-29 Superfortress built in Wichita, flew again on July 17, 2016 after a 29-year, 300,000-volunteer-hour restoration effort.
TaildraggerHow a P-38F Lightning abandoned on the Greenland ice cap in 1942 was recovered from 268 feet of glacial ice and restored to flight 60 years later.
TaildraggerHow researcher Matt Scales tracked down serial 42-92847 - the C-47 that led the entire D-Day airborne assault - and how the CAF flew her over Normandy 75 years later.
TaildraggerThe B-29 'Doc' spent over 40 years abandoned at China Lake before volunteers flew her home to Wichita and restored her to flight in 2016.
TaildraggerHurricane R4118 is the only Battle of Britain combat veteran still airworthy - found in a field in India after decades and restored to flight in 2004.
TaildraggerHurricane R4118 flew approximately 50 Battle of Britain combat sorties, spent 40 years in an Indian shed, and was restored to flight in 2004.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Mosquito outran every Luftwaffe fighter sent after it - here's the engineering story and the restoration science keeping the last flying examples airworthy.
TaildraggerDoc, a 1944 B-29 Superfortress rescued from the Mojave Desert, flew again over Wichita on July 17, 2016, after a decade of volunteer restoration work.
TaildraggerMore than 100 WWII aircraft sank during carrier training on Lake Michigan - and decades later, cold freshwater kept many of them intact.
TaildraggerThe Curtiss SB2C Helldiver survived over 800 engineering changes and a reputation its own crews despised to deliver more combat ordnance than any other Allied carrier dive bomber in the Pacific.
TaildraggerDoc the B-29 Superfortress spent 44 years in the Mojave Desert before volunteers restored her to flight in 2016 - one of only two airworthy examples of the Pacific War's decisive bomber.
TaildraggerThe Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was Germany's finest piston fighter - how it shocked the RAF in 1941, how Britain accidentally captured one intact, and why fewer than a dozen fly today.
TaildraggerGlacier Girl is a WWII P-38 Lightning recovered from 268 feet of Greenland ice after 50 years and restored to flight, taking to the skies again in 2002.
TaildraggerFlak Bait, serial number 41-31773, flew 207 combat missions over Europe - more than any other American aircraft in the ETO - and is now being fully restored at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center.
TaildraggerGlacier Girl is a P-38F Lightning recovered from 268 feet beneath the Greenland ice cap and returned to flight in 2002, sixty years after an emergency landing during Operation Bolero.
TaildraggerFlak-Bait flew 207 combat missions in WWII - a record no American aircraft has matched - and its ongoing restoration at Udvar-Hazy preserves every patch as evidence.
TaildraggerDoc the B-29 Superfortress returned to flight on July 17, 2016, after decades in the California desert - one of the most significant warbird restorations in American aviation history.
TaildraggerHow 300,000 volunteer hours over 13 years brought B-29 Doc back to the sky over Wichita in 2016 - one of only two flying Superfortresses left on Earth.
TaildraggerHurricane R4118 flew 49 combat sorties in 1940, vanished to India for decades, and was restored to flight in 2004 as one of warbird aviation's most documented recoveries.
TaildraggerHow a fire-scorched B-29 abandoned at China Lake became one of two airworthy Superfortresses after a 16-year, 300,000-hour volunteer restoration in Wichita.
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