Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz, the First Flight Across America in Nineteen Eleven
How Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz made the first flight across America in 1911, surviving 16 crashes over 49 days.
The Hangar
Aviation history and storytelling with Taildragger. Warbird restorations, legendary pilots, famous flights, and the stories that shaped aviation from the Wright Brothers to the Space Shuttle.
Don Sheldon, the Glacier Pilot of Talkeetna, and the Wager With the Wind on the Slopes of Denali
How Don Sheldon, Talkeetna's legendary glacier pilot, landed ski planes on Denali to ferry climbers and pull off impossible rescues.
Flak-Bait, the B Twenty-Six Marauder That Flew Two Hundred Seven Missions and Is Being Put Back Together Piece by Piece at the Smithsonian
How Flak-Bait, a B-26 Marauder, flew 207 combat missions in WWII and is now being conserved piece by piece at the Smithsonian.
Operation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level B Twenty-Four Raid on the Ploesti Oil Refineries, August First, Nineteen Forty-Three
Radio Hangar explores Operation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level B Twenty-Four Raid on the Ploesti Oil Refineries, August First, Nineteen Forty-Three.
Ormer Locklear, the Dance of Death, and the Wing-Walker Who Climbed Out of the Cockpit and Never Really Came Back
Ormer Locklear invented professional wing-walking and the deadly plane-to-plane 'Dance of Death' - until a 1920 film stunt killed him at 28.
Robin Olds, the Wolfpack, and Operation Bolo, the Day the Phantoms Wore the Thunderchief's Clothes and Sprung the Trap Over Hanoi
How Robin Olds and the Wolfpack disguised F-4 Phantoms as bombers and destroyed seven MiG-21s in twelve minutes over Hanoi.
Tex Johnston, the Barrel Roll Over Lake Washington, and the Day a Test Pilot Rolled the Boeing Dash Eighty in Front of Every Airline in the World
How test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Boeing Dash 80 over Lake Washington in 1955 and sold the world on jets.
The de Havilland Mosquito, the Wooden Wonder Built by Furniture Makers, and the Unarmed Bomber That Outran the Fighters Sent to Kill It
How the wooden de Havilland Mosquito, built by furniture makers, outran WWII fighters and flew a dozen combat roles.
The Hawker Hurricane, the Forgotten Hero of the Battle of Britain, and the Airplane That Killed More German Aircraft Than Everything Else Combined
The Hawker Hurricane, not the Spitfire, downed the majority of Luftwaffe aircraft in the Battle of Britain - here's the full story.
The Lockheed Constellation, the Connie, and the Triple-Tailed Airliner Howard Hughes Ordered in Secret to Fly Higher and Faster Than Anything Else in the Sky
The story of the Lockheed Constellation, the triple-tailed airliner Howard Hughes ordered in secret to fly higher and faster than anything in the sky.
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the Six-Engine Mach Three Bomber That Outlived Its Own Mission and Now Fills a Hangar in Dayton
The XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach 3 bomber made obsolete by missiles; the last one survives at the Air Force museum in Dayton.
Voyager, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, and the Nine Days That Flew Around the World Without a Single Drop of Fuel Taken On
How Voyager made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in 1986, landing with under 50 pounds of fuel to spare.
Beryl Markham, The Messenger, and the Night She Flew the Atlantic the Hard Way From East to West in Nineteen Thirty-Six
How Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic east to west in 1936, into the wind.
Bob Hoover, the Iced Tea Pour, and the Two-Engine-Out Energy Routine That Made a Shrike Commander Dance
How Bob Hoover poured iced tea while flying upside down - and the two-engine-out energy routine that made him the finest stick-and-rudder pilot ever.
Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, and the Man Who Landed on Ice Nobody Thought You Could Touch
How Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, invented Alaska glacier flying from $2 and a stainless-steel bar top.
Charles Kingsford Smith, the Southern Cross, and the First Flight Across the Pacific in Nineteen Twenty-Eight
Radio Hangar explores Charles Kingsford Smith, the Southern Cross, and the First Flight Across the Pacific in Nineteen Twenty-Eight.
FIFI, the B Twenty-Nine Superfortress the Confederate Air Force Pulled Off a Desert Missile Range and the Twenty Million Dollar Rebuild That Kept Her Flying
How FIFI, a B-29 rescued from a desert missile range in 1971, became the world's last flying Superfortress - and the rebuild that saved her again.
Glacier Girl, the P Thirty-Eight Lightning Pulled From Two Hundred Sixty-Eight Feet of Greenland Ice, and the Lost Squadron That Waited Fifty Years to Fly Again
How a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice for 50 years was recovered and restored to flight as Glacier Girl.
Otto Lilienthal, the Glider King of Berlin, and the Man Who Jumped Off a Hill Two Thousand Times So the Wright Brothers Wouldn't Have To
How German engineer Otto Lilienthal proved human flight was possible - and gave his data away so the Wright brothers could finish the job.
Queen Bess, Bessie Coleman, and the Texas Sharecropper's Daughter Who Sailed to France to Earn a Pilot's License America Wouldn't Give Her
How Bessie Coleman, a Texas sharecropper's daughter, sailed to France in 1920 to earn the pilot's license America denied her.