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 Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Dash 80 prototype over Lake Washington in 1955 and helped launch the jet age.
How Claire Chennault turned the outclassed P-40 into a war-winner with the Flying Tigers over China, months before America entered WWII.
How the Gossamer Condor won the Kremer Prize on August 23, 1977, achieving the first human-powered controlled flight.
How the Grumman F6F Hellcat, built around combat reports from the Pacific, destroyed Japanese naval air power with a 19-to-1 kill ratio.
How the Schneider Trophy floatplane race and Supermarine's S.6B secretly forged the engineering behind the Spitfire.
How Bob Reeve turned a Valdez tidal mud flat into a runway, pioneered glacier landings, and invented Alaska bush flying.
How Charles Kingsford Smith and the Southern Cross made the first trans-Pacific flight from the US to Australia in 1928.
How Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947 - flying with two cracked ribs and a broomstick to close the hatch.
Radio Hangar explores Doc, the B-29 Superfortress the Navy Used for Bomb Practice, and the Wichita Volunteers Who Spent Sixteen Years Bringing Her Back to the Sky.
Radio Hangar explores Jerrie Mock, the Spirit of Columbus, and the Ohio Housewife Who Flew a Single-Engine Cessna Solo Around the World in Nineteen Sixty-Four.
How F-4 pilot Bob Pardo used his jet's nose to push a crippled wingman out of North Vietnam in 1967 - one of aviation's boldest maneuvers.
How the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the seven-ton 'Jug,' became WWII's toughest fighter and brought more pilots home than any of its rivals.
How Howard Hughes flew the Spruce Goose one mile off Long Beach in 1947 to prove his critics wrong.
How one-eyed pilot Wiley Post flew the wooden Winnie Mae around the world twice and pioneered the pressure suit and jet stream.
How Beryl Markham became the first person to fly the Atlantic solo east to west, from England to North America, in September 1936.
How Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon mastered glacier landings on Denali and flew hundreds of daring rescue missions in a fabric Super Cub.
How pilot Gail Halvorsen became the Candy Bomber, dropping chocolate on handkerchief parachutes to children during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
How Jimmy Doolittle's 1929 blind flight proved airplanes could fly safely on instruments alone, launching the modern age of IFR aviation.
The last airworthy Bristol Blenheim was rebuilt three times over nearly 40 years, surviving two crashes to fly again at Duxford.
The Night Witches flew 23,000 night sorties in wood-and-canvas biplanes, gliding silently over German lines on the WWII Eastern Front.