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.
How Bessie Coleman sailed to France in 1920 to become the first Black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license.
How the B-29 Superfortress 'Doc' was rescued from a desert bombing range and restored to flight in Wichita after 15 years.
How Talkeetna bush pilot Don Sheldon landed a Super Cub uphill on Denali's glaciers to rescue climbers and map the mountain.
How Douglas Bader lost both legs in a 1931 crash, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain on two tin legs, and scored 20.5 victories.
How a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice for 50 years was melted out, restored, and flown again as Glacier Girl.
The story of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club, the desert bar where sound-barrier test pilots learned to be human.
Roscoe Turner flew a real lion cub as his copilot and won the Thompson Trophy three times - a record no pilot ever matched.
The F4U Corsair earned the name 'Whistling Death' for its shrieking dive, and overcame carrier rejection to become one of WWII's deadliest fighters.
The Douglas DC-3 first flew in 1935 and still hauls freight worldwide 90 years later - here's why it was never truly replaced.
How Jimmy Doolittle flew the deadly Gee Bee R-1 to a 296 mph world record in 1932 - then walked away from racing for good.
How the Soviet 588th 'Night Witches' turned an obsolete wood-and-fabric biplane into a fearsome night bomber on the Eastern Front.
How the Thirteen Black Cats turned 1920s Hollywood stunt flying into a business with a printed price list for every deadly aerial trick.
How Alberto Santos-Dumont made Europe's first witnessed powered flight in 1906 and shaped aviation history.
How Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo nonstop east-to-west across the Atlantic in 1936, into the wind.
How Bob Hoover flew a dead-stick Shrike Commander and poured iced tea mid-roll to teach the pilot's most vital skill: energy management.
Flak-Bait flew 207 combat missions in WWII - and the Smithsonian is preserving her battle damage instead of restoring her to shine.
In 1925, Noel Wien flew an open-cockpit Hisso Standard 500 miles from Fairbanks to Nome across Alaska no pilot had ever seen.
How the RAF's Dambusters used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to break the Ruhr dams flying at 60 feet in the dark.
How wing walker Ormer Locklear and the surplus Curtiss Jenny turned 1919 America into a nation that looked up at the sky.
The story of Swamp Ghost, a B-17E that sat 64 years in a New Guinea swamp before its 2006 recovery and preservation in Hawaii.