| Links
on this page which are in italics take you to pages on my website,
all others take you to pages on outside websites. |
General
Wikipedia |
 Wikipedia
is a generic encyclopedia, but its essays on individual aircraft types
are very detailed and well worth reading. |
| Federation
of American Scientists: Military Analysis Network |
 This
website doesn't get many updates, but it's still very worthwhile,
with extensive data and photographs of each type of aircraft in the US
arsenal. It used to have them all listed on a single page,
but unfortunately now there's a
sprawling index page which you must burrow down into. Similarly,
the index of "rest of the world" military aircraft has been broken down
into multiple indices arranged by country. Last visited in April
of 2008. |
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A
very well prepared and presented website which provides basic fact sheets
about a large number of vintage
military aircraft types which are privately owned and still flying.
There are also good website link pages about aircraft
museums in the USA and around the world, and airshows
in the USA. |
| Kiwi
Aircraft Images |
Phillip
Treweek's website is amazingly comprehensive, with text and photos
covering a vast number of different
aircraft types, especially warbirds, which have flown in New Zealand.
There are separate sections covering airshows
and aircraft museums.
and a brilliant alphabetical list of different aircraft
which have flown in New Zealand, with 183 entries when I visited the
site in 2003. |
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Niels
Hillebrand's nicely designed "military aviation" website
has a military aircraft
directory with information about many different fighters, bombers and
strike aircraft around the world. Some entries are less detailed
than others, but it's still a great resource, and includes many small to
medium sized photos. There are several other sections, including
airshow
reports with lots of photos, and a page with a
limited number of wallpaper photos. Last visited
in January of 2006. |
| Joe
Baugher's Encyclopedia of American Military Aircraft |
This
website has a huge index of American military aircraft, including aircraft
which entered active service and those which never got past the experimental
stage. When I visited in May of 2002, there were some surprising
omissions, like the A-4
Skyhawk and A-37
Dragonfly, but perhaps he'll get to them eventually.
The site contains very good descriptions of each aircraft, as well as variants,
but it lacks photographs or diagrams, which is why it gets four stars instead
of five. |
| MilAirPix |
Roger
Whitcomb's website has coverage of a number of British airshows and a
wallpaper page with a large number of different aircraft types.
Last visited in July of 2005. |
| ChamorroBible.org |
 Chamorro
is the original language of the island of Guam, and this website is dedicated
to the Chamorro Bible which was first published in 1908. However,
the webmaster's interests extend to interesting photographs of many types,
including four collections of public
domain photos of military aircraft with vapor clouds, which are available
in large format for download. Last visited in July of 2005. |
| Royal
Air Force History |
This
site is pretty disappointing when you consider all of the possibilities
available to them. The timeline
pages tracing the development of the RAF from its beginnings
to the present day aren't bad, and the aircraft
histories are certainly worthwhile. |
| CombatAircraft.com |
This
website is nicely laid out, with sections on different types of fighters,
bombers,
transports,
trainers,
helicopters
and special purpose
aircraft, however there isn't much information on the pages dedicated
to the different models of aircraft, only a few photos and basic technical
information with no historical data. Last visited in May of
2006. |
Fighters
Naval
Aircraft
| Skyhawk.org |
This
site is dedicated to the A-4
Skyhawk, otherwise known as Heinemann's hotrod, after its legendary
creator. |
| GrummanGoose.com |
This
website is dedicated to the Grumman Goose flying boat, and it includes
a huge photo gallery
of Grumman Goose aircraft from around the world, both historic and modern. |
| Bob
Jellison's web site |
This
enthusiast's website is extremely limited in scope, covering only the aircraft
types Bob Jellison actually flew, but it's well done, both in terms
of layout and content. These are the
F-9F
Cougar, the T-33 Shooting
Star, the
F-3H Demon
and the
RA-5C Vigilante.
Last visited in May of 2006. |
| www.pby.com |
As
it say on the front page, this isn't the prettiest website, but it has
lots of information about the PBY Catalina, including a database of specific
wartime aircraft, photo galleries
of different models of Catalina and a good website
links page with links to other Catalina websites and organizations. |
| PBY
Catalina International Association |
 This
website is feeble, intended primarily as a rallying point for veterans
who served in Catalinas. There's no information about Catalinas
either in wartime or flying today. |
Non-combatants
| Air
Bum: Fieseler Storch flight report |
A
very entertaining report about the flying characteristics of the German
world war two short takeoff and landing aircraft, the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch,
with a short description of the rescue using a Storch of Benito Mussolini
from the inaccessible mountaintop where he'd been imprisoned by the leaders
of a wartime coup. |
Helicopters
Civil
Aircraft
| Gee
Bee R2 |
This
website commemorates the Gee Bee R2 raceplane, which flew during the 1930s.
It also features the story of the only R2 replica flying today. |
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