Hercules On Deck

In 1944, Robert Turnell and Ray Owen flew Hellcats from the USS Wasp; last year at the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, they had some catching up to do. This video follows the veterans as they meet again and as their family members explain what the reunion has meant to all of them. (Video: Michelle Donoghue)

Hellcat Pilots of VF-81 (3:36)

Acclaimed director Peter Jackson has a fantastic collection of 70 World War I aircraft. But host Phil Keoghan isn’t just interested in seeing them—he wants to fly one. And you can, too.

Here's how you can fly in one of Peter Jackson's WWI planes. (2:50)

This sequence from the 1947 Air Force film "Liberators Over Europe" captures some of the B-24's best-known missions.

Liberators Over Europe (6:00)

In the closing days of World War II, military cameramen got an unexpected chance to film German Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring following his capture. Video: David Sewell/Motion Video Inc.

Directing Goering (3:16)

Alan Eustace broke the world altitude record for a parachute jump on October 24, 2014 by leaping from a stratospheric height of more than 135,000 feet. Footage Courtesy Atomic Entertainment and Paragon Space Development Corporation

A Record Jump (1:46)

Sharon Starks flies her homebuilt, 80-percent-scale replica Morane-Saulnier Type L (a Robert Baslee kit) over Gardner, Kansas, during the annual Gathering of Eagles fly-in. In formation with her is husband Dick Starks, piloting his plans-built Graham Lee replica Nieuport 11. (Video: Courtesy of Chris Gerlach)

World War I Replicas Over Kansas (0:39)

Video: NASA

Bill Dana Profile (8:54)

A segment from a U.S. Air Force film follows a single flight by then-Major Charles “Chuck” Yeager. Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. “Tom” Collins put the MiG-15 through its paces, technicians inspected it for signs of sabotage and determined it was safe. The MiG was tested to find out how it performed in comparison with the U.S. frontline fighter, the North American F-86 Sabre, which in the film joins up with Yeager for part of the flight.

Chuck Yeager Flies the MiG-15 (3:13)

In May 1923, McCook Field test pilots John Macready and Oakley Kelly flew from New York to San Diego in a Fokker T-2, setting a new cross-country record: 26 hours, 50 minutes. The narration is from the 1953 film 'The Air Force Story'.

The First Non-Stop Transcontinental Flight (2:10)