The Supermarine Spitfire emerged from racing floatplanes and a dying engineer's final obsession - its elliptical wing and Merlin engine shaping the outcome of the Battle of Britain.
TaildraggerThe P-51 Mustang became WWII's finest piston-engine fighter through bold engineering decisions, a revolutionary wing, and one test pilot's honest memo.
TaildraggerBob Hoover escaped a German POW camp in 1945 by stealing a Focke-Wulf 190 he had never flown, launching the career of aviation's greatest airshow pilot.
TaildraggerThe complete story of Glacier Girl - the P-38 Lightning buried 268 feet under the Greenland ice cap in 1942 and restored to flight in 2002.
TaildraggerHow the RAF's 1943 Dambusters raid used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach the Ruhr dams at just sixty feet.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches flew wood-and-canvas biplanes over the German lines at night with their engines cut - here's their story.
TaildraggerHow the Flying Tigers and their shark-toothed P-40 Warhawks defended Burma against a superior enemy in 1941-42.
TaildraggerHow a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice for 50 years was melted out, restored, and flown again as Glacier Girl.
TaildraggerHow Claire Chennault turned the outclassed P-40 into a war-winner with the Flying Tigers over China, months before America entered WWII.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches flew 23,000 night sorties in wood-and-canvas biplanes, gliding silently over German lines on the WWII Eastern Front.
TaildraggerHow RAF ace Douglas Bader lost both legs in a 1931 crash, flew Spitfires on tin legs, and became a Battle of Britain hero.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches flew obsolete Po-2 biplanes into WWII combat, cutting their engines to glide silently onto targets in the dark.
TaildraggerHow RAF ace Douglas Bader lost both legs in a 1931 crash and still flew the Battle of Britain on two artificial legs.
TaildraggerHow a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice for 50 years was recovered and flew again as Glacier Girl.
TaildraggerHow the Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment - the 'Night Witches' - flew obsolete canvas biplanes on 23,000+ night raids in WWII.
TaildraggerCharles Carpenter, an Illinois schoolteacher turned Army aviator, bolted six bazookas to a Piper Cub and hunted German tanks across France in 1944.
TaildraggerOn June 5, 1944, over 800 C-47 crews flew paratroopers into Normandy through flak and cloud, launching the D-Day invasion.
TaildraggerThe Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 was the first naval battle fought entirely by aircraft, where opposing fleets never saw each other.
TaildraggerThe Doolittle Raid of April 1942 launched sixteen B-25 bombers from a carrier deck to strike Tokyo and alter the course of the Pacific War.
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