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Flying a plane is no different from riding a bicycle. It’s just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.
Captain Rex Kramer, in the movie Airplane
For all aviation and aircraft buffs, this category offers sites about air and space, air combat, aircraft archives, and aeronautical engineering, to name a few. The sky’s the limit!
Afraid to fly over the Bermuda Triangle? This site should help dispel some of the myths associated with the area.
This site is an aviation yellow pages. You can look here for listings of businesses and their Web pages (if available) that relate to aviation.
Learn about this magazine, which was created by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. You can see what is featured in the latest issue or subscribe online.
Whether for personal enjoyment or to spice up a presentation, look at this site for downloading aviation photography. This site also offers tips for taking your own photographs.
The main goal of this association is to obtain internships for students. Check out this site to learn more about the association and how to join.
Provides information about undergraduate and graduate Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering programs at the university. Enables you to investigate the provided facilities and research opportunities as well as become familiar with the teaching staff. Provides a link to the university home page.
Focuses on different types of flying machines. Includes a calendar of flying shows, a listing of aviation fuel prices, and an aviation library.
This company can fly you on a scenic sightseeing tour, take you on a fishing trip, and fly you to a lakeside picnic. Other flying possibilities are available. They will even fly supplies to you on your yachting excursions! Check out this site for more details.
Find out how you can fly actual air-to-air combat in a real, state-of-the-art military aircraft! You won’t even need a pilot’s license.
Collection of pictures of mainly military aircraft. All photos are in JPEG format.
Offers links for finding information about lighter-than-air craft. Includes information on these craft in fiction, models, and pictures; a bibliography; and links to Internet resources and discussion groups.
Interested in Amelia Earhart? This site provides a nice biography detailing her life from her youth until her last flight. It also has some nice pictures.
As the name suggests, the site is simply a directory with links to other aviation sites. This could be a good starting place when looking for something.
The Aviation Internet Directory is a biannual publication listing Internet sites for several aviation-related topics. See this site if you want to order this directory or if you want to have a Web site posted in it.
Provides many resources, including picture libraries, air show information, and aircraft locators.
Looking for a job in the aviation field? Here is a great place to start. It isn’t just for pilots, either. This site supports jobs for all areas of aviation.
This site contains a database for finding a U.S. flight school near you. Pilot schools can also come here to create a profile for themselves to be entered into the database.
This page offers aviation publications intended to help train professional pilots. Simulator profiles, system schematics, and other topics are covered.
This is an online aviation newspaper directed at students. You can check out the current issue, look at archived issues, or subscribe online to the hard copy version. Information about topics like trade shows and air shows can be found. Contains many good pictures.
Find out what is going on in the Balloon Federation of America. You can fill out an application to join or just check out the latest news. Offers links to other sites.
Provides orientation to space flight and related topics, including the solar system, gravity and mechanics, interplanetary trajectories, orbits, electromagnetic phenomena, space craft types, telecommunications, onboard subsystems, navigation, and phases of flight.
Home page for the world’s largest producer of commercial jetliners. Provides information on employment opportunities and company news as well as background information and facts about the company’s families of airplanes. Contains interesting, downloadable pictures of their airplanes.
Provides information for the aviation enthusiast. Offers links to Canard aircraft that provide information on each aircraft and other related information.
Loads of useful information for those interested in flying with Delta. You can check flight schedules, reserve tickets, or just read news about the company.
Learn about the world’s largest aeronautical university. This site contains admission information, research opportunities, and a virtual tour of campus.
Learn about this helicopter flight-training school and how you can learn to fly helicopters. This site also contains several links to other helicopter-related sites.
This association is dedicated to advancing the civil helicopter industry. Check out this site to learn more about them and how to join.
Very comprehensive archive boasting 223 featured aircraft. Aircraft are neatly divided into categories such as World War I, World War II, Post War/Modern. Contains loads of pictures and technical data.
Excellent and informative site that provides a wide variety of aviation information for all levels, including recent news items and editorials.
One of the best weather sites available. Find weather information from around the globe. Also contains endless links to other aviation-specific topics.
Interested in hot air balloons? Check here to learn how they work, how to get a ride in one, and how to become a pilot. Several good links, too.
Offers information about the jet aircraft manufacturer. This includes company history, employment opportunities, and specifications and photos of their product.
Their home page states that “by promoting safety, rights of access, and better public understanding of aviation and air sports, the NAA is not only for the experienced pilot, but for aviation enthusiasts of all kinds.” See their home page to learn about the association and how to become a member.
Provides information about the activities of this research center. Includes a photo archive of research aircraft, research documents, and program infor-mation.
Acts as the starting point for all of NASA’s Web-based information. Offers links to resources, including space shuttle information, home pages for the NASA centers around the country, space images, and educational resources.
Provides data about the current space shuttle mission. Includes images, schedules, mission information, video clips, and technical information. Contains statistics and goals of every mission ever flown by a shuttle.
Helps visitors learn how to access live images and audio from NASA using CU-SeeMe software. Provides a link for obtaining the CU-SeeMe software.
This site describes the museum very well. It includes a very thorough description of the museum’s exhibits, complete with many photos.
This site offers information about another aviation college. Read about the history of the school as well as about its available courses and programs.
Offers a wide range of pilot supplies from several manufacturers. Pictures and descriptions of goods are available as well as an online order form.
Take a virtual tour of this museum boasting more than 20 World War II aircraft. This site comes with pictures and documentation for each plane. Fighters, bombers, and training aircraft are featured.
This is a page of links to sites concerning radio-controlled devices. Radio-controlled airplanes make up the majority of the links.
Sky Warriors is a company that allows pilots and non-pilots the opportunity to fly real fighter planes and dogfight with an opponent. They also provide training for pilots to become accustomed to unusual flying conditions, and they provide formation training.
This is THE granddaddy of all aviation pages. This site contains hundreds of alphabetized, aviation-related links. If there is an aviation page in existence, there is a good chance you will find it here.
This site bills itself as “a virtual museum of the invention of the airplane.” It contains a good written history of the first airplanes. It also has several movies (in quick time format) and photographs of early pilots. Definitely a good source of information about the Wright brothers.
This site is intended to make it easy for people to learn more about flying ultralights. It does a fine job of this and even contains links to other ultralight pages.
Check flight schedules or reserve tickets. You can also learn some background information about the company. Check out the company’s Mileage Plus program to see how you can earn free miles.
Read about museum tour times and prices as well as museum history. Several photos of airplanes displayed in the museum are available.
About 30 pictures of zeppelins including, of course, the Hindenburg. Offers some links to other sites.
This site offers hard-to-find airplane parts. Control wheels, gun sights, data plates, and stick grips are some examples of what you can find. Check out this page if you’re interested in selling authentic relics, too.
This is a good place to look if your airplane needs servicing. They can do several kinds of repairs as well as sell parts.
This site covers practically every imaginable aspect of aviation. It is a library containing links to dozens of other related sites. This would be an excellent place to begin a search into the area of aviation.
Learn about the Wright Brothers Medal presented annually by the Society of Automotive Engineers. It recognizes the author of the best paper covering the “development, design, construction, or operation” of an aircraft or spacecraft.