How bush pilot Wop May's 1932 aerial reconnaissance during the Mad Trapper manhunt laid the foundation for modern search-and-rescue aviation.
TaildraggerIn January 1929, WWI ace Wop May flew 250 miles through subarctic Alberta to deliver diphtheria antitoxin and save children in isolated Fort Vermilion.
TaildraggerIn January 1932, bush pilot Wop May flew a Bellanca monoplane over the Northwest Territories in the first aerial manhunt in North American history.
TaildraggerIn January 1929, Wop May and Vic Horner flew diphtheria antitoxin 700 miles to Fort Vermilion, Alberta in brutal cold, completing in two days what would have taken dogsled teams three weeks.
TaildraggerHow bush pilot Wop May flew a ski-equipped Bellanca Pacemaker through 55-below-zero temperatures to track the Mad Trapper of Rat River during Canada's most extraordinary wilderness manhunt in 1932.
TaildraggerIn January 1929, pilots Wop May and Vic Horner flew diphtheria serum 600 miles into Arctic Alberta in an open-cockpit biplane.
TaildraggerHow the Red Baron really fell on April 21, 1918 - and why the evidence points to a gunner on the ground, not Roy Brown.
TaildraggerHow Wilfrid 'Wop' May survived being chased by the Red Baron in 1918 and went on to complete a life-saving mercy flight through the Canadian wilderness in 1929.
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