The Douglas SBD Dauntless, the Slow But Deadly Dive Bomber, and the Five Minutes at Midway That Turned the Whole Pacific War
How the slow, homely Douglas SBD Dauntless sank four Japanese carriers at Midway and turned the Pacific War in five minutes.
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.
The Douglas World Cruiser Chicago, the 1924 First Flight Around the World, and the Open-Cockpit Biplane Still Hanging in the Smithsonian
The 1924 Douglas World Cruiser Chicago made the first flight around the world - and still hangs in the Smithsonian today.
The F Eighty-Six Sabre, MiG Alley, and the Day the Shooting Stopped Over the Yalu
The F-86 Sabre dominated MiG Alley in the Korean War until jet combat ended with the armistice on July 27, 1953.
The Night Witches, the Polikarpov Po Two Biplane, and the Women Who Cut Their Engines to Glide Onto a Target in the Dark
The Night Witches flew obsolete Po-2 biplanes into WWII combat, cutting their engines to glide silently onto targets in the dark.
The Republic P Forty-Seven Thunderbolt, the Jug, and the Seven-Ton Fighter That Brought Its Pilots Home Full of Holes
How the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt 'Jug' - a seven-ton fighter - outdove enemies and brought its pilots home riddled with holes.
Wrong Way Corrigan, the Curtiss Robin, and the Twenty-Eight Hour Mistake That Flew From Brooklyn to Dublin
How Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a $310 Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Dublin in 1938 and called it an accident.
Betty Skelton, the Little Stinker, and the First Lady of Firsts Who Cut the Ribbon Upside Down, Told From the Aerobatic Rows at Oshkosh
How Betty Skelton and her red Pitts Special 'Little Stinker' broke aviation's barriers with inverted ribbon cuts and 17 records.
Noel Wien, the Fairbanks-to-Nome First Flight, and the Quiet Norwegian Who Taught Alaska How to Fly Its Own Backcountry
How Noel Wien's 1924 Fairbanks-to-Nome flight invented Alaska bush flying and shaped modern backcountry aviation.
Sierra Sue Two, the Bemidji Mustang, and the Winter of Rivets That Brought a P Fifty-One Back From Nothing at Oshkosh
How AirCorps Aviation in Bemidji, Minnesota rebuilt the P-51 Mustang 'Sierra Sue Two' from corroded parts into an Oshkosh Grand Champion.
Steve Fossett, the GlobalFlyer, and the Sixty-Seven-Hour Solo That Circled the Earth on a Single Tank, Told From the Canard Rows at Oshkosh
In 2005 Steve Fossett flew Burt Rutan's GlobalFlyer solo around the world nonstop, unrefueled, in 67 hours on a single tank.
Steve Wittman, the Little Man Whose Name Is Painted on the Field, and the Oshkosh Racer Who Flew Faster on Less Than Anybody Alive
Steve Wittman, the near-blind Oshkosh airport manager and racing legend, invented the landing gear under thousands of aircraft and gave EAA its home field.
The Beechcraft Staggerwing, Walter and Olive Ann Beech's Negative-Stagger Business Biplane, and the Model Seventeen That Still Rules the Vintage Rows at Oshkosh
The story of the Beechcraft Staggerwing, the negative-stagger luxury biplane the Beeches built during the Depression and a Bendix winner.
The Ford Trimotor, the Tin Goose That Taught America to Trust the Airliner, and the Corrugated Old Girl Still Selling Rides at Oshkosh
How the Ford Trimotor, the corrugated 'Tin Goose,' taught a fearful America to trust the airliner - and why it still flies at Oshkosh.
The Lockheed P Thirty-Eight Lightning, Kelly Johnson's Fork-Tailed Devil, and the Twin-Boom Fighter That Still Turns Every Head on Warbird Alley at Oshkosh
How Kelly Johnson's twin-boom P-38 Lightning became WWII's 'fork-tailed devil' and why it still stops the show at Oshkosh.
The Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh's Wicker-Seat Gamble Across the Atlantic, and the Full-Scale Ryan Hanging in the EAA Museum at Oshkosh
Radio Hangar explores The Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh's Wicker-Seat Gamble Across the Atlantic, and the Full-Scale Ryan Hanging in the EAA Museum at Oshkosh.
Aluminum Overcast, the B-17 Flying Fortress EAA Kept Flying, and the Fortress That Still Rumbles Over Wittman Field
Aluminum Overcast is one of fewer than a dozen airworthy B-17s left, kept flying by the EAA at Oshkosh's Wittman Field.
Roscoe Turner, the Ring-Master of the Air, and the Lion Cub Named Gilmore Who Flew the National Air Races Golden Age Come Alive in the Vintage Rows at Oshkosh
The story of Roscoe Turner, his lion Gilmore, and how golden-age air racing shaped the showmanship of Oshkosh today.
The Bede BD Five, the Airplane in a Box, and the Smallest Jet in the World Hanging in the EAA Museum at Oshkosh
The story of the Bede BD-5, the 'airplane in a box,' and how it became the BD-5J, the smallest jet in the world.
The Boeing Model Forty, the Mail Plane That Learned to Carry People, and the Pemberton Family Restoration That Brought the Last One Back to the Oshkosh Vintage Rows
How the Boeing Model 40 mail plane launched U.S. passenger airlines - and how the Pemberton family restored the last flying example.
The de Havilland Beaver, the Half-Ton Flying Pickup the Bush Pilots Themselves Designed, and the Floatplanes Still Tied Off at the Oshkosh Seaplane Base
The de Havilland Beaver was designed from bush pilots' own demands - power over speed and drum-sized doors - and it's still working 70 years later.