Air

Organization, management, and issues of air transport.

Resources in this category:

The Aerodrome: Aces and Aircraft of World War I
http://www.theaerodrome.com/

In-depth information on World War I aces and aircrafts. Includes biographical information on all the major aces of the war, organized by nationality. This includes rank, squadrons, victories, medals awarded, a photo, and a short account of their war service. In addition, the site has a listing of aircraft used in the war, organized by country of origin. Also provides related links, a discussion forum and an internal search engine.

Air Traffic Control System Command Center
http://www.fly.faa.gov/

Real time flight delay information for major U.S. airports. Includes a Glossary of Air Traffic Management Terms.

Airlines of the Web
http://www.itn.net/cgi/get?itn/cb/aow/index

Directory of airline web pages. Lists for passenger carriers, frequent flyer programs, cargo airlines, aviation organizations, airline USENET groups, 800 numbers, reservations, etc.

The Aviation Zone
http://www.theaviationzone.com/

"The Aviation Zone is the most comprehensive online resource for military transports, aerial tankers, and fixed-wing gunships, from 1940 to present day. Over 75 different aircraft are represented within, most having distinguished service records and a significant presence in the annals of military airlift history....This site currently contains over 1900 High-Quality images, detailed factsheets with aircraft diagrams, and numerous media files."

crashDATABASE.com
http://www.crashdatabase.com/

"This web site is the Internet's first fully searchable online database of virtually every commercial airline accident in history. Included in the database herein are more than 1,500 commercial airline accident records, large and small, covering the years of 1970 through 2001, and more accident records are being added every day."

Encyclopedia of American Military Aircraft
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Elevon/baugher_us/

Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft is organized by type of airplane, such as attack or cargo. Select the type, then scroll down the list to find your airplane. There is also a section for Aircraft of the World.

Federal Aviation Regulations
http://www.landings.com/_landings/pages/fars.html

Searchable, full text of FAA and relevant NTSB regulations in HTML format. Arranged by subchapter and part.

Flight-History.com
http://www.flight-history.com/

"Flight-History is dedicated to capturing aviation history. The archives feature a growing collection of photographs, stories and aircraft specifications. The site includes the aviation artwork of several artists."

Landings
http://www.landings.com/

"Landings' directory will connect you to virtually every lift-generating web site on the net, from airports to flying clubs, organizations and publications to aviation events, home-building to airlines and many more. Among Landings various databases you'll find sophisticated searches of FAA Regulations, Canadian Regulations, AIM, the Pilot Controller Glossary, Service Difficulty Reports, Airworthiness Alerts, NTSB Briefs, N Numbers and the FAA Airmen Database, Airmen knowledge test information and more."

Learn to Fly
http://www.aopa.org/learntofly/

"Here you'll learn the basics of getting a pilot certificate and read personal accounts of people who have done it. We think you'll find it interesting and enjoyable reading, and we hope it will help convince you to take a drive to your local airport and sign up for a first flight." Includes a searchable database for finding a flight instructor.

Milestones of Flight
http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal100/gal100.html

"The National Air and Space Museum 'Milestones of Flight' gallery exhibits some of the major 'firsts' in aviation and space history. These are the machines that made the dream of flight possible. From the Wright Brother's Wright 1903 Flyer, to the Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, to the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia that carried the first men to walk on the Moon."

NASA Observatorium Aeronautics Planes
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/planes/planes_2a.h...

This contains links to educational projects (sponsored by NASA) to get children interested in flying in order to learn about technology, physics, chemistry and math. There is an easy experiment to demonstrate how planes fly. There is also a link to NASA's Internet in the classroom page.

The Observatorium
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/core.shtml.html

"Introduces the basic concepts and applications of remote sensing using simple examples and jargon-free text. The site is geared toward the general public and assumes no previous knowledge of remote sensing. The site has some material appropriate for K-12 educational uses. The Observatorium also maintains a searchable database providing abstracts and analysis of other remote sensing Internet resources."

Plane Writing
http://www.xs4all.nl/~blago/planewriting/

"Flying used to fire the imagination in a major way and heroes were made of this. Those early pilots were unmistakebly remarkable people, did not one but several remarkable things, and best of all, they wrote about it. Then, in the age of rockets, they became suddenly out-dated, archaic, forgotten. Their dusty biographies, leftovers from another era's enthusiasm, paint a wonderful picture of pre-fifties flying and living! The quotes and scraps of stories here are a personal selection from these texts."

The Principles of Flight
http://www.pilotsweb.com/principle.htm

An excelent overview of the physics behind flight, including concepts such as Newton's Laws of Motion, Bernoulli's Principle of Pressure, Lift and Drag, Airfoils, and Angle of Attack.

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
http://www.nasm.si.edu/

This exciting website of NASM has online exhibits and images of the museum’s collections, as well as news, upcoming events, and general information about the museum.

To Fly is Everything
http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/

Web site about the invention and early history of the airplane. "It features several online books and numerous magazine articles drawn from the period 1799-1909, including a considerable amount of rare material, in the Digital Library. The photography section features movies of early craft in flight, and a collection of more than 300 Wright brothers photographs. There is considerable support for text-based browsers. The Chanute-Wright correspondence features numerous hyperlinks to supporting material, allowing for a rich exploration of the Wright brothers efforts to master the air."

TheTrip.Com: Flight Tracking
http://www.cheaptickets.com/trs/cheaptickets/flighttracker/f...

"You can find out about current flights between major cities within the United States. Remember that this is real time flight data so it only shows flights that are flying, have recently flown, or are about to take off." You can find a flight by airline an flight number, or by city and time.

The Tuskegee Airmen
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/airoverview.h...

A history of the Tuskegee Airmen maintained by the National Park Service.