Doc, the B-29 Superfortress Pulled From a Desert Bombing Range and Rebuilt by the People Who Once Built Her
How Doc, one of only two flying B-29 Superfortresses, was rescued from a desert bombing range and rebuilt by the people who first built her.
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.
Glacier Girl, the Lost Squadron, and the P Thirty-Eight Lightning They Dug Out From Under Two Hundred Sixty-Eight Feet of Greenland Ice
How Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning, was recovered from 268 feet of Greenland ice 50 years after crash-landing and flew again in 2002.
Glacier Girl, the Lost Squadron, and the P-38 Lightning They Dug Out From Under Two Hundred Sixty-Eight Feet of Greenland Ice
How Glacier Girl, a P-38 abandoned on Greenland's ice cap in 1942, was recovered from 268 feet of ice and flown again in 2002.
Howard Hughes, the H-1 Racer, and the Silver Bullet That Set the Landplane Speed Record and Came Back to Oshkosh in Miniature Perfection
How Howard Hughes's H-1 Racer set the 1935 landplane speed record and returned to Oshkosh decades later as an award-winning replica.
Steve Wittman, Chief Oshkosh, and the Air Racer Whose Name Is Painted on the Field Where the Whole Show Lands
Steve Wittman was a legally blind air racer and self-taught engineer whose name Oshkosh's airport bears - and whose ideas still fly today.
The de Havilland Beaver, the Flying Half-Ton Truck the Bush Pilots Designed Themselves, Rumbling In Over the Oshkosh Seaplane Base
The de Havilland Beaver became a legend because its makers asked bush pilots what they needed - power, big doors, and toughness.
The Gates Flying Circus, Ivan Gates, and Upside-Down Pangborn - the Barnstorming Outfit That Sold America Its First Airplane Ride a Dollar at a Time
How the Gates Flying Circus sold over a million Americans their first airplane ride for a dollar and launched the barnstorming era.
The Piper J-3 Cub, the Little Yellow Airplane That Taught a Nation to Fly, and the Cubs That Still Swarm Into Oshkosh Every Summer
How the Piper J-3 Cub taught America to fly, went to war as the L-4 Grasshopper, and still swarms into Oshkosh every summer.
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the Jug, and the Seven-Ton Fighter That Brought Its Pilots Home on the Oshkosh Warbird Ramp
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was WWII's biggest single-engine fighter, and its massive airframe is exactly why it brought so many pilots home.
The Stinson Reliant Gullwing and the Detroit Cabin Cruiser That Still Rules the Vintage Rows at Oshkosh
The Stinson Reliant Gullwing is a 1930s luxury cabin monoplane whose distinctive double-tapered wing still draws crowds at Oshkosh.
Benny Howard, Mister Mulligan, and the Homebuilt Racer That Won Both the Bendix and the Thompson in a Single Year
How Benny Howard's homebuilt Mister Mulligan won both the 1935 Bendix and Thompson trophies - the only airplane ever to do it.
Bernard Pietenpol, the Air Camper, and the Minnesota Farmer Who Bolted a Ford Engine to a Homebuilt and Started It All
How Minnesota farmer Bernard Pietenpol bolted a Ford Model A engine to a homebuilt airplane and launched the entire experimental aviation movement.
Curtis Pitts, Betty Skelton, and the Little Biplane That Taught the World to Roll
How Curtis Pitts and pilot Betty Skelton turned a homemade Florida biplane into the airplane that taught the world to roll.
Curtiss Field, Long Island, and the Barnstormer's Contract That Sent a Kid to His First Loop
How 1920s barnstormers turned surplus Jennies and farmers' hay fields into flying's first schools - and why Oshkosh carries on their legacy.
Don Sheldon, the Talkeetna Mountain Pilot, and the Glacier Landings That Wrote the Book on Bush Flying
How Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon pioneered glacier landings on Denali and rewrote the rules of backcountry flying.
That's All, Brother - The C-47 That Led the D-Day Sky Train and Came Back From a Boneyard to Fly Over Oshkosh
The C-47 'That's All, Brother' led the D-Day airborne invasion, was rescued from a scrapyard, and flies again today.
The Beechcraft Staggerwing and the Backward Biplane That Outran Every Airplane in Its Class
The Beechcraft Staggerwing's backward-staggered wings made this 1930s luxury biplane faster than fighters - here's the real story.
The Boeing Stearman, the Yellow Peril, and the Fabric-and-Dope Craft That Brings a Warbird Back to Life on the Oshkosh Vintage Rows
The Boeing Stearman 'Yellow Peril' trained WWII pilots, then survived as a crop duster - here's how restorers bring it back to life.
The North American T-6 Texan, the Pilot Maker, and the Supersonic Prop Tip Rasp That Owns the Oshkosh Warbird Ramp
The North American T-6 Texan trained more military pilots than any aircraft in history - and its supersonic prop tips still own the Oshkosh warbird ramp.
The North American T-6 Texan, the Pilot Maker, and the Warbird Ramp at Oshkosh Where the Round Engines Still Sing
The North American T-6 Texan, the 'Pilot Maker,' trained a generation of WWII fighter pilots and still fills the warbird ramp at Oshkosh.