Aviation
Flying and aircraft have always been great interests of mine. And Top Gun is unquestionably one of the grooviest pictures ever made.
Here, I will try to assemble links to interesting web material in the field of aviation.
Aviators in History
Gustav Weißkopf
- the German/American aviator who achieved the very first motorized
flight (1901)
Wilbur & Orville Wright
- inventors, builders and pilots of the world's first
practical aeroplane (1903)
Manfred
von Richthofen
- with nearly 80 air victories during World War I, the Red
Baron is regarded, to this day, as the ace of
aces (1916–1918)
Charles Lindbergh - the
Swedish descendant American pilot who made the very first transatlantic
flight (1927)
Amelia Earhart - pioneer
aviatrix; the first woman to cross the Atlantic (1932); she perished,
along with her navigator, in an attempt to become the first woman to
fly around the world (1937)
Howard
Hughes - renowned industrialist, moviemaker, and daring aviator;
this excentric Texan managed to set several speed and distance records
as well as become a major aircraft manufacturer - he engineered the
construction of the the largest plane ever built, nicknamed the
"Spruce Goose" (1947)
Charles "Chuck"
Yeager
- "Mr Supersonic", legendary test pilot and fighter ace; the
first man to cross the sound barrier (1947)
Warcraft
Air Force Technology
- info on military aircraft around the globe
Incidents of Magnitude
AirDisaster.com - if you
suffer from fear of flying, don't go here
Flight Simulation
FlightGear - a free, open
source flight simulator, available for various platforms
Flight Simmer's Corner - loads of
flight sim info
Flight Simulator Nordic - flight
sim news, info and very nice add-ons
VATSIM - pilots and air traffic
controllers together in online simulation
Miscellaneous
Columbus World Airport
Guide
- extensive info on the larger airports worldwide
ICAO & IATA
Airport/Airline Codes
- for us aviation lingo freaks
Stearman World Flight
- Robert Ragozzino flew a Boeing Stearman around the world in the year
2000