Published by Taildragger
Aviation history, warbirds, restorations, and hangar flying. Taildragger tells the stories behind the machines and the people who flew them. From Radio Hangar, 24/7 aviation talk radio.
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The Republic P Forty-Seven Thunderbolt, the Seven-Ton Jug That Could Dive Faster Than Any Piston Fighter and Fly Home Full of Holes. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
10 min
Noel Wien, the Standard Biplane With No Brakes, and the First Man to Fly the Alaska Bush Where There Were No Maps. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
13 min
Operation Chastise, the Dambusters, and the Bouncing Bomb Barnes Wallis Skipped Across a Reservoir to Break the Ruhr Dams. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
13 min
Alcock and Brown, the Vickers Vimy, and the First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic Into a Bog in Ireland. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
11 min
Roscoe Turner, the Waxed Mustache, and the Lion Cub Named Gilmore Who Flew the Air Races Strapped Into His Own Parachute. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
10 min
Flak-Bait, the Martin B-26 Marauder That Flew Two Hundred and Seven Missions and Came Home, Now Being Pieced Back Together at the Smithsonian. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
8 min
Pardo's Push, the F-4 Phantom That Shoved a Crippled Wingman Halfway Out of North Vietnam With Nothing but a Windshield and a Tailhook. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
11 min
The Swamp Ghost, the B-17E That Ditched in a New Guinea Swamp in Nineteen Forty-Two and Waited Sixty-Four Years to Come Home. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
9 min
Jacqueline Cochran, the Orphan From the Florida Panhandle Who Outran Every Man in the Sky and Became the First Woman Through the Sound Barrier. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
11 min
The Vought F4U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Bird the Marines Called Whistling Death and the Navy Said Would Never Land on a Carrier. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
9 min
Don Sheldon, the Talkeetna Glacier Pilot Who Landed a Super Cub on the Side of Denali to Pull Climbers Off the Mountain. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
10 min
Operation Vengeance, the P Thirty-Eight Lightnings That Flew Four Hundred Miles Over Open Water to Shoot Down Admiral Yamamoto. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
13 min
Chuck Yeager, the Bell X One Glamorous Glennis, and the Cracked Ribs He Hid From the Flight Surgeon the Morning He Broke the Sound Barrier. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
11 min
Elrey Jeppesen and the Little Black Book That Turned the Deadly Airmail Runs Into the Charts in Every Cockpit. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
12 min
The Memphis Belle, Twenty-Five Missions Over Europe, and the Thirteen-Year Restoration That Brought Her Back From the Scrap Line to the Museum Floor. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
11 min
Wiley Post, the One-Eyed Oklahoma Roughneck, the Winnie Mae, and the Solo Flight Around the World That Also Found the Jet Stream. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
12 min
That's All, Brother, the C-47 That Led the D-Day Sky Train, Rotting in a Wisconsin Boneyard Until a Historian Read Her Serial Number. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
10 min
Robin Olds, the Handlebar Mustache, and Operation Bolo, the Day the Wolfpack Tricked Seven MiGs Out of the Sky Over Hanoi. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
8 min
Roy Brown, Wop May, and the Morning the Red Baron Fell Over the Somme. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
12 min
The Ford Trimotor, the Tin Goose Henry Ford Built From Corrugated Metal, and the Birthday That Gave America Its First Real Airliner. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.