Aviation and Aerospace Links

Aircraft Associations, Organizations and Societies

• American Aviation Historical Society  "recognized by the Smithsonian NASM as a premiere aviation historical effort"
• Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)
• The Explorers Club  "For 94 years our international, professional society has been a meeting point and unifying force for explorers and scientists worldwide."
• International Council of Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (IAOPA)
• The Seaplane Pilots Association's "web site has everything you want to know as a seaplane pilot, owner, student, or enthusiast!"
• Sky Viking  "an organization dedicated to aviation adventures"

Aviation Magazines

• Aviation Illustrated

Aviators

• Amelia Earhart  "from the Naval Historial Center"
• The Adventures of a Bush Pilot  by Richard H. LaPorte
• Lindbergh Foundation
  • Charles A. Lindbergh bio
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Government Sites

• Federal Aviation Administration
• Minnesota Department of Transportation Aeronautical Office
  
• NASA Homepage
  • S.P.A.C.E. - NASA On The 'Net
  • Space Educators' Handbook  "One small click for all mankind..."

Historic Flights

• Amelia Earhart's Last Flight  "from the San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 1937"
• Friendship Flight '98  "From Barrow, Alaska to Spitsbergen, Norway. . . in a small single-engine airplane  70 years exactly after it was done by aviation pioneers"

Museums

• Aviation Museum: International Women's Air & Space Museum
• National Air & Space Museum  one of the Smithsonian Institution museums
• National Aviation Hall of Fame  "nominates and enshrines individuals in recognition of achievement in the development of aviation"
• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome  "a living museum of antique aviation located in Rhinebeck, New York. . . featuring memorabilia from 1900 to 1935"
• San Diego Aerospace Museum  "Experience aviation's history from the Wright Flyer to the Space Shuttle"
• To Fly is Everything...  "A virtual museum covering the invention of the airplane"
• Women in Aviation Resource Center  " Awarded c|net's Best Of The Web"
  • Portal Of The Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation & Museum  "was dedicated in 1953 as a "Shrine to Aviation" by aviation enthusiasts who envisioned a final resting place for pilots, mechanics and other pioneers of flight."
  • "From Jennys to Jets, Aviation Arts Gallery of Laguna Beach, California, has one of the finest selections of aviation art in the country "

Miscellaneous Web sites

• The Aerodrome  "Aces and Aircraft of World War I"
• The Aviation Home Page  Links to weather sites, newspapers, clubs, flight schools and airlines from Aeromexico to Kachemak Bay Flying Service
• South Atlantic Memorial Flight  "Long-Ez... a special kind of aircraft!  built using the plans of the famous american designer Burt Rutan."  This site loads slowly and requires Netscape 4.0 or MSIE 4.0
• The X Prize  "Your Ticket to Space"