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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R.J. Mitchell, the Schneider Trophy, and the Spitfire He Never Saw Go to War. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Carl Ben Eielson, the Hamilton Metalplane, and the Search in the Siberian Ice That Cost Alaska Aviation Its Father. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
The Tuskegee Airmen, the 332nd Fighter Group, and the Red Tails Who Flew to Berlin. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
John Alcock, Arthur Whitten Brown, the Vickers Vimy, and the First Nonstop Crossing of the Atlantic. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
The Granville Brothers, the Gee Bee R-1, and the Race Plane That Defined the Golden Age of Air Racing. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Wrong Way Corrigan, the Curtiss Robin, and the Trans-Atlantic Flight That Was Definitely an Accident. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Hurricane R Four-One-One-Eight, the Battle of Britain Veteran Found in an Indian Hangar After Sixty Years, and the Restoration That Put a Real Combat Aircraft Back Over England. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Eddie Rickenbacker, Twenty-Six Kills Over France, and the Twenty-Four Days on a Pacific Raft That Would Have Killed Anyone Else. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Jacqueline Cochran, the Sound Barrier, and the Cotton Mill Girl from the Florida Panhandle Who Became the Most Decorated Pilot in American History. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Operation Chastise, the Bouncing Bomb Barnes Wallis Refused to Abandon, and the Night Nineteen Lancasters Flew at Sixty Feet into the Ruhr. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Ivan Gates, the Gates Flying Circus, and the Quarter-Million Americans Who Paid Five Dollars to Touch the Sky. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Queen Bess, the French License, and the Woman Who Had to Cross an Ocean to Find a Flight School That Would Take Her. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
The de Havilland Mosquito, the Plywood Bomber the Air Ministry Said No to, and the Wooden Airplane That Outran Everything the Luftwaffe Could Put in the Sky. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Wop May, Vic Horner, and the Mercy Flight to Fort Vermilion. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
The Flying Tigers, Claire Chennault, and the American Volunteer Group That Fought Japan Before the War Began. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
The Douglas World Cruisers, the Army Air Service's Nineteen Twenty-Four Flight Around the World, and the Two Planes That Made It Home. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Roscoe Turner, Gilmore the Lion, and the Three Thompson Trophies That Nobody Has Ever Matched. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
The Northrop N-9M Flying Wing, Jack Northrop's Broken Dream, and the One Survivor at Chino That Proved He Was Right All Along. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Doc, the B-29 Superfortress That Spent Decades as a Firefighter's Target in the California Desert and the Sixteen-Year Restoration That Brought Her Home to Wichita. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Operation Chastise, the Bouncing Bomb, and the Night 617 Squadron Breached the Ruhr Dams. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Richard Bong, America's Ace of Aces, and the Day the War Ended Without Him. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
The Heinkel He One Seventy-Eight, Erich Warsitz, and the Morning the Jet Age Was Born. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Elinor Smith, the Four East River Bridges, and the Seventeen-Year-Old Who Flew Where Nobody Expected Her to Fly. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Ormer Locklear, the Texas Carpenter Who Invented Wing-Walking, and the Night Dive Over Los Angeles That Killed the Most Famous Barnstormer in America. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
Harriet Quimby, the Bleriot Eleven, and the English Channel Crossing the Titanic Erased From History. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.
