Urban's military aviation weblog

This blog is no longer updated, but my new blog also has aviation content.

Tactical Laser Could Work Like Long-Range Napalm - Estimate of what effects a 100kW laser would have on human targets. (2008-09-16)
F.155T Design Submission - "In 1955, the F.155T requirement was issued for a new interceptor for the RAF. This machine was to be capable of all-weather interception of targets flying at 60,000 feet and Mach 1.3 using guided weapons." (2008-09-08)
BZ's Chino's Planes of Fame - Lots of good airshow photos of warbirds. (2008-08-15)
How To Hide an Airplane Factory - " During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from being a target for a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air." (2008-07-07)
Gripen Demo has flown for the first time - Photo from an other angle here. (2008-05-27)
Turboramjet - "How do the J58 engines on the Blackbird change from normal jets to ramjets as the plane accelerates?" (2008-05-11)
SA defence force accepts first Gripen fighter - (2008-05-09)
Russian Victory Day Parade rehearsal - (2008-05-07)
Nové strely AMRAAM - Czech Gripens loaded with AIM-120C-5 missiles. Captive and live. (2008-04-12)
What they really called them - List of real, but unoffical, nicknames for US aircraft. (2008-03-26)
Identification codes of units of the Luftwaffe 1939 - 1945 - (2008-03-17)
Burt Rutan and Scale Composites - Photos and brief descriptions of some aircraft. (2008-03-02)
Bulgarian Air Force Base, Aviobaza Dobroslavtsi - MiG-23 photos and a bit more. Interesting and unusual subject. (2003-01-03, 2008-01-25)
Força Aérea Portuguesa - The official site. Well organized. (2003-01-03, 2008-01-25)
Dispersed base 37 - Photos from Swedish wartime base, at Hultsfred.%09Now disbanded. No text, just external and internal photos. (2007-10-20)
Australia 'cracked top-secret US jet fighter codes' - The codes to change the NCTR library was apparently not included with the Hornets. (2007-09-24)
CH-53 flying with half its blades removed - Photo of a trial to see if it would be a viable method in case one blade was damaged and you couldn't get a replacement. (2007-09-20)
Bombs Away - Gripen and GBU-12 bombs. Photos from the first occasion where live GBU-12s were mounted and later dropped from Gripen. Text in Swedish.%09 (2007-09-17)
Reggiane Re 2000 - Italian fighter aircraft. Unusual photos of it, including catapult launches from battleships. (2007-09-16)
Rygge airshow 2007 - Photos. (2007-09-08)
Kecskemét - 2007/08/1 - Airshow photos. Text in Hungarian. (2007-08-23)
Unreal Aircraft - "Unreal Aircraft features unique and unusual aircraft like twin-fuselage Mustangs, Canadian flying saucers, gravity-defying VTOL airplanes and even personal rocket packs."%09 (2007-08-14)
Aircraft Photo References - Military, mostly US, aircraft. (2007-08-10)
SAAB J 35 Draken - Site devoted to a single aircraft type. (2007-08-10)
Saab Gripen in South Africa - Several photos. (2007-07-02)
Gripen Demo - Trail-blazing the future - Press release from Saab about a new, heavier, Gripen variant. (2007-06-20)
Swedish Air Force Gulfstream ELINT aircraft in white scheme - Used to be grey/grey. (2007-05-29)
Hawker Hunter Development & Variants - "The Hunter went through a troubled adolescence but eventually became an excellent machine, and the basic design was modified into a large and somewhat confusing number of variants. This chapter discusses the origins and development of the Hunter and describes the major variants." (2007-05-27)
Gripen with photo recce pod - Text in Swedish, but several images showing how it looks. The pod has one digital Recon CA 270 and optionally a traditional film camera made by Omera for low altitude photography. (2007-05-25)
Lockheed X-27 - Photo and brief description. (2007-05-22)
SAAB 32 Lansen in pictures and words - A personal perspective, mainly with photos, see also the SAAB 105-SK 60 article and Viggen's early years. (2001-06-08, 2002-12-23, 2004-08-25, 2007-05-15)
Kjeller airshow photos - Another forum entry. (text in Swedish) (2007-05-15)
Norwegian F-5s at Sola - Lots of good photos. Text in Norwegian. (2007-04-28)
WWII Aircraft Performance - Charts and tables for some fighter aircraft type. (2007-03-10)
The SAAB underground factory at Linköping - Was used from 1945 to 1998. 35 m below ground. 21300 square meter floor area in two levels. Some photos of how it looks today, after it was abandoned. Text only in Swedish. (2007-02-23)
Gripen N's capabilities - PDF documents showing what upgrades to Gripen the offer for Norway includes. (2007-02-10)
JAS 39 Gripen A/B C/D differences - Photo link. (2007-02-07)
RJAF Historic Flight - Jordan is one of the few nations with a historic flight operated by the air force. (2006-12-03)
Israeli Weapons - Aircraft - Overview about different projects and types in service. (2006-11-14)
Portuguese Military Aviation - A pretty good overview on many subjects. (2003-01-03, 2006-11-14)
NATO Flying Training in Canada (2001-03-15, 2003-01-02, 2006-11-14)
Polish Aviation - Articles and photos. (2003-01-01, 2006-11-14)
Irish Air Corps Photographs - "The main aim of this site is to build the largest online archive of Irish Air Corps pictures." (2003-01-01, 2006-11-14)
Post-war military aviation - "This site is committed to bringing well researched articles on post-war military aviation to the Internet. The bias is towards quality, information and ease of access rather than flashing lights and too many slow-to-load images." Highly recommended site. (2001-06-18, 2003-01-01, 2006-11-14)
AgustaWestland A109 LUH rollout in Sweden - Photos of the newly delivered helicopters and some text. (2006-11-06)
National Museum of the USAF - About the museum itself, but also fact sheets and a large collection of photos. (2006-10-23)
Gripen - Lots of photos, many in great detail, Swedish and Hungarian aircraft. (2006-10-19)
Oceana Airshow 2006 - Photos. (2006-09-13)
Swedish Air Force photo album - Mainly photos of Saab Tunnan and Lansen, which the site owner flew as a fighter pilot. You've probably not seen these photos before. No captions and the rest of the site is in English. (2006-09-02)
Viggen movie - About its last time at F 4 wing at Östersund. 20 min, 100MB. Camera work not totally steady, documenting ordinary activity at the airbase. (2006-08-08)
Finnish Air Force aircraft in colour - "This section introduces all the aircraft types under Finnish Air Force insignia used in the 3 wars in 1939-45." (2006-07-28)
American Aircraft of World War II - "This is a reference site with photos, data, and info on all American aircraft designed or used in World War II. Even the hardcore aviation enthusiast will learn something here." (2006-07-26)
Swedish Gripen arrives at Eielson - There to take part in Red Flag Alaska. (2006-07-21)
Royal Air Force History Gallery - "This Gallery is made up of some of the best historical photographs from Service archives which can be downloaded for personal use, such as wallpaper in Windows."%09 (2006-06-28)
Classical Aeroplanes - Aviation art. (2006-06-15)
WW1and Early Aviation Image Archive - Lots of photos of lots of different types of aircraft. (2006-06-12)
McMahon's Radars! - "Presented here is an informative article on radar, actually done by one of the people who saw it from a 'users point of view'. What Morgan depicts here is a mix of background on the technology, theory, and personal experience." (2006-06-06)
Anselm Franz and the Jumo 004 - Early jet engine development. (2006-05-29)
Might Have Beens: Italian Twin-Engined Fighters, 1943 - Information about some interesting projects. (2006-05-26)
The Planes of Fame Airshow 2006 - Good airshow photos. Mostly warbirds. (2006-05-24)
CH-53 with camouflage scheme partly in the form of human silouettes - (2006-05-19)
Ellsworth AFB foam test - Photos of a hangar filling with foam. (2006-05-19)
WarBird Photos - WWII photos and photos from museums. (2006-05-18)
The "But that aircraft never flew with that airforce"-picture thread - Long forum thread with lots of interesting photos. (2006-05-15)
Tankebanor kring och visualiseringar av Gripen moddningar - About possible Gripen modifications to increase number of useful weapon stations and increased fuel volume. Text in Swedish, but some informative images. 1: "Bathtub". No useful advantage. 2: CFT. 3: Longer fuselage, fuel instead of second cockpit, longer rear fuselage for CG reasons. 4: Moved landing gear, the currently favoured solution. (2006-05-08)
Brewster F2A Fighters -- 1940 Experimental Camouflage - Images of fighters in disruptive schemes. Also of TBD-1s. Neither seems to have been useful, but it's certainly something different. (2006-05-08)
Conceptual Design of a New Generation JAS 39 Gripen - Seems Saab is at least considering a relatively radical upgrade of Gripen. I had been expecting overving conformal tanks for a "E/F", but moving the gear is not a small change. (2006-05-05)
Aviafrance - Un siècle d'aviation française - Text in French, but you can find lots of photos of relatively unusual aircraft. (2006-04-19)
Assymetric Aircraft - Some real, projected and made up. (2006-03-09)
Interview : Swedish Air Force Viggen Pilot - "Patrik Sebek interviewed Swedish Air Force Captain Mikael 'BUTCHER' Tormalm of 211 Squadron on behalf of MILAVIA. Captain Mikael Tormalm had flown various Saab Viggen variants, including the Jaktviggen (Fighterviggen) before transitioning to its replacement, the Saab Gripen." (2006-02-20)
Sikorsky S-67 - The first Blackhawk. (2006-02-09)
Covers come off UK spy plane - "Images of the UK's first prototype stealth surveillance aircraft have been unveiled." (2006-01-20)
Images of Viggen at Aviodrome - Delivered to a foreign museum. (2006-01-13)
Photos from the making of The Battle of Britain - Text in Spanish, but mainly just photos. (2006-01-11)
Photos of Czech Gripens and MiG-21s - The previews look blurry, but the photos themselves are great quality. (2005-12-31)
National Text Pilot School - General information, and some neat videos. (2005-12-05)
Saab's FILUR UCAV first flight - Press release. Two photos. (2005-12-01)
Semper Viper - A collection of F-16 articles. (2005-11-23)
Marshall Stelzriede's Wartime Story - "The Experiences of a B-17 Navigator During World War II." (2005-11-23)
Descriptions of several Russian military aircraft - Including prototypes. With photos and basic data. Text in Russian. (2005-11-23)
Last Plane Without a Computer - Part of a longer discussion, this message deals with artificial statibility, in particular as used on F-4 and F-105. (2005-11-23)
FRADU Hunters - Lots of photos from different periods. (2003-01-01, 2005-11-22)
The Royal Air Force - Official site. (2003-01-01, 2005-11-22)
Scottish Tornado Squadrons - Mainly photos, but not just from regular air shows. (2003-01-01, 2005-11-22)
Phlying the Phantom - About how it was like to fly. (2005-11-08)
Saab takes important step for Surveillance System to Pakistan - Press release. Saab 2000-borne Erieye. (2005-10-19)
Au revoir Kallax! - Last SK 37E Viggen in-service flight, delivery to the museum at Le Bourget. Text in Swedish, but photos also. (2005-10-18)
Smaller planes facilitate special operations - USAF Squadron set up to operate six U-28A, Pilatus PC-12. (2005-10-17)
World War 2 Pictures in Color - Lots of it aviation related. (2005-10-13)
P&W J58 - Photo of the last running, in a test stand. (2005-10-12)
A SAC navigator describes his flights aboard Russian aircraft - From the June 1960 issue of the Combat Crew magazine. (2005-09-28)
Moscow Visit - 2005 - Trip report, link to lots of photos near the end. (2005-09-02)
Spy craft take gull flight lesson - "The toy-sized drones are being developed for tricky urban missions so that they can zip around tight places." (2005-09-02)
The 0-2A / 0-2B Stories - Details the differneces from the commercial Cessna 337. (2005-08-05)
www.superfighter.hu - Hungarian site, mostly Gripen photos. (2005-07-27)
Bombs Weapons Rockets Aircraft Ordnance - Good overview of bombs and rockets used in WW2. (2005-07-27)
Flying Legends 2005 - Airshow report. (2005-07-19)
Splash one Dreamboat - Why and how a P-61 shot down a B-29. (2005-07-13)
Swedish C-130 with air refuelling equipment - One has been converted and on June 15:th it first flew in this configuration. Text in Swedish. (2005-06-28)
COIN: French Counter-Insurgency Aircraft, 1946-1965 - Interesting read, illustrated with drawings. (2002-12-31, 2005-06-27)
I Aé 24 Calquín - Argentinian bomber looking like a Mosquito, but made of metal. Text in Spanish. (2005-06-27)
The German V/STOL project VJ-101 C - Slightly supersonic VTOL aircraft. (2005-06-23)
PC-7 Team - The Swiss Air Force PC-7 display team. (2002-12-31, 2005-06-22)
"When Thunder Rolled" - Q & A with Major Ed Rasimus (USAF, Ret.) - Very good interview with someone who flew fighters in Viet Nam. (2002-12-31, 2005-06-22)
Dag's Military Aviation Pages - Mainly current Norwegian military aviation. (2002-12-31, 2005-06-22)
Tactical Air Command Denmark - Official site. (2002-12-31, 2005-06-22)
Finnish Air Force Museum at Tikkakoski - "The basic exhibition consists mainly of aircraft which have been used by the Finnish Air Force, their engines and aircrew equipment." (2002-12-31, 2005-06-22)
Finnish Air Force - The official site. (2002-12-31, 2005-06-22)
USMC Helicopter Squadrons - Squadron overviews, history, aircraft descriptions and more. (2002-12-31, 2005-06-22)
IPMS Stockholm - A modellers' site, but even if you aren't yourself you may find interesting prototype information here. (2002-12-31, 2005-06-22)
Afterburner.nl - Good aviation photography. (2002-12-31, 2005-06-22)
Airshow at Östersund - Good photos. Not only military aircraft. (2005-06-19)
Egyptian surprise at Gilze-Rijen air show: C-130 brings Gomhouria Mk.6 - The Heliopolis Gomhouria is a Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann. (2005-06-16)
F-16 Evolution - Article in Code One Magazine. (2005-06-10)
Lockheed Model 186 / CL-575 / XH-51 - "The Lockheed Model 186 was designed in response to a 1960 joint Army/Navy requirement for a high-speed, highly manoeuvrable research helicopter."
Some more reading about Lockheed CL-475. (2005-06-06)
Unusual British Aircraft - Some examples of strange looking designs. (2005-05-30)
WWII gun camera film examples - Uncommented videos. (2005-05-27)
Västerås Roll-out 2005 - Photos from a Swedish air show. Text in Swedish. (2005-05-27)
Missile Scrapbook - "This page is an unsorted listing of some missile, rocket and UAV projects, which are mentioned by name in one or more of my sources, but for which I couldn't find sufficient information to write a reasonably complete description." (2005-05-23)
Lockheed Senior Peg - Their entry for the B-2 competition. One image, no data. (2005-05-17)
Sagem Sperwer in Swedish service - Where it's called Uggland (Owl). It can be noted that it does have a pilot camera, which I understand most Sperwer operators don't have. (2005-05-17)
Pakistani Women to Fly Fighter Jets - One more air force trains women. (2005-05-13)
Ouch ouch ouch - Photos of two mid-air damaged F/A-18s, which both landed. (2005-05-11)
A 32 Lansen vs railway - Photos from exercise in 1966 where the Swedish air force practices live shooting at a train on an abandoned railway. (2005-05-09)
Air Mobile Feasibility Demonstration of Minuteman 1 missile - Photo sequence showing ICBM air dropped from C-5. (2005-05-04)
Casa/Enaer A-36 "Halcón" ("Falcon") - The CASA 101 in Chilean service. (2005-05-02)
North American RF-100A Slick Chick - "Probably the least known reconnaissance aircraft of the Cold War was the North American RF-100A, nicknamed the 'Slick Chick'." (2005-05-02)
Operation Eagle Claw - About the 1980 hostage rescue attempt. Another account. (2005-04-30)
Ramming Aircraft with Breakaway Cockpit - Concept for purpose designed for direct contact with the target. (2005-04-28)
Airborne Wolf - Specially painted Viggen from "Lone Wolf" squadron photographed in the air. (2005-04-23)
Viggens at F 21 Luleå - Recent photos of Viggens at Sweden's northernmost air force base. (2005-04-18)
SK 61 Bulldog in Hungary - The web page of the dealer selling some. (2005-04-12)
Project Habbakuk - Overview of the 1940's pykrete (ice and sawdust) carrier project. More here. (2005-04-11)
Japanese airborne demonstration - Lots of helicopter and troop photos, slow page. (2005-04-07)
Beware of the Wolf - Specially painted Viggen from F 21/1:st sqn which is called "Akktu Stakki" which means "Lone wolf". This from the time when it was a pure reconnaissance squadron, with aircraft almost always flying singly. (2005-04-07)
Boeing Laser JDAM Scores Direct Hit - "A U.S. Air Force F-16 launched the 500-pound GBU-38 weapon from 25,000 feet and approximately six miles from its target."%09 (2005-03-23)
Pilots make long commute to Global Hawk University - Article about training and operation of this UAV. (2005-03-14)
The Saab 37 Viggen mailinglist - A Yahoo discussion group as well.%09 (2002-12-31, 2005-03-08)
Svedino's Automobile and Aviation Museum - "One of the biggest collections in Europe of vintage cars and aircraft." (2002-12-30, 2005-03-08)
Flygvapenmuseum - The Swedish Air Force museum. (2002-12-27, 2005-03-08)
Stragglers - "The purpose of this site is to be the meeting ground for people interested in the forcelandings that occured in Sweden during WW2." (2001-03-30, 2002-12-27, 2005-03-08)
Lockheed Martin's JASSM Successful In Flight Test - First verification flight. Article short on details. (2005-03-08)
Instrument Panels - Photos of cockpit interiors, US military aircraft, current and historical. (2005-03-05)
Steam train railway crosses runway - This page is in Swedish, but if you scroll down a bit you'll find a photo of a Saab A 32A Lansen waiting for a train which crosses the runway at F 15 wing, Söderhamn. When the runways where lengthened, there was no space to reroute the railway again, so it had to cross the runway. About 10 trains per day used the crossing and the air traffic controllers had light signals for the railway, which had priority except in case of emergency. (2005-02-10)
Peruvian air force photos - Four albums with photos from displays. (2005-02-03)
Iraqi Super-Bases - Photos and descriptions of Iraqi military airfields. (2005-01-29)
Bistatic and Multistatic Radar (PDF) - Paper with some interesting points. (2005-01-25)
Photo of Visby airbase - Showing the end with the QRA shelters and what the taxiway system looks like. Visby is a dual use airport. An aerial photo of Kubbe airbase, showing the whole runway and taxiway system. This base is only for air force use. (2005-01-17)
Pima Air and Space Museum - A small photo gallery of exhibited aircraft. (2005-01-07)
The Raptor as Bomber - The FB-22 detailed. (2005-01-05)
Säve Bergshangar - Photos from the underground hangars at F 9 wing outside Göteborg. The site is on its way of becoming a museum. This photo gives an impression of the size of the site, which is in fact only the new, lower, hangars. The first ones, inside the hill but level with the ground outside, were considered not well enough protected. Part of a site which is about bunkers and similar in western Sweden. Text in Swedish, but the photos themselves are informative. (2004-12-30)
Royal Thai Air Force Museum - Good photos from a museum with several interesting aircraft. (2004-12-09)
Aircraft Engines of World War II - List with data. (2004-12-02)
Attack of the Killer Cactus - Three photos of a Harrier which collided with cactus on a low level flight. (2004-12-01)
Helikopter 11 - Sista flygning - Yesterday was the last day of Swedish air force service for the five Augusta Bell 412s we've had in service since 1993. (One photo, text in Swedish.) (2004-11-30)
Swedish field hangars - Two types undergoing testing. The inflatable one takes 1.5h to erect, and is intended to be moved to where the Gripen is. Both types can be connected to containers with other equipment and be climate controlled. (2004-11-26)
Photo of an ex-Swedish Bulldog in Hungary - HA-TUJ used to be in the army as an artillery spotter. (2004-11-25)
Black JA 37 Viggen - Recent photos of a specially painted aircraft. And a few other photos from Östersund. (2004-11-20)
Photos from Barkarby airport - Over 300 historic photos from what for a time was F 8 air force wing in western Stockholm. The captions are in Swedish, but often so brief it doesn't really matter. Much. Starting from page 26 or so are photos I think will interest readers of this blog. (2004-11-18)
Viggen and Gripen at F 4 - Very recent photos from the flight line at the Östersund wing. (2004-11-02)
Secondary use of artefacts and the development of a new historical context: an example of the jet age - About what you can do with F-86 drop tanks. (2004-11-02)
F-16 visits F 17 - Belgian F-16s visits the Swedish air force wing F 17. Text in Swedish, but also some photos. (2004-11-01)
Maiden flight of first Czech Gripen - Press release with a few photos. (2004-10-21)
Night Defence - Good overview of British air defence 1914-18. (2004-10-20)
Firepower October 8th, 2004 - "Firepower is the live fire demonstration that used to be called Capstone." (2004-10-20)
The SAAB AJ 37 Viggen Project - This is going to be a hobby simulator cockpit, but as it uses real parts, it rather well shows Viggen cockpit details. (2004-10-18)
Airbum.com - Photos - Warbirds - Good photos, mainly air to air. (2004-10-11)
Helio AU-24A Stallion - "The AU-24A was the second aircraft evaluated for potential use in Southeast Asia as an armed light utility short take off and landing gunship." (2004-10-08)
The way things really work: US F-15s Versus Indian Su-30s - The exercise with US F-15Cs vs Indian Su-30s wasn't quite a "level playing field":No AESA radars (usually two out for have, and that's what they train for), 3-to-1 odds, no active radar AMRAAM shots while the Indians could use fire-and-forget.
But also: "They also admit they underestimated the training and tactics of the Indian pilots. Indian air force planners never repeated failed tactics and were able to change tactics as opportunities became available, mixing things up and never providing the same tactical "look."" And some Indian radars had other characteristics than expected. (2004-10-07)
New color schemes in the RNLAF - Grey and grey KDC-10 and blue VIP Alouette III. (2004-10-01)
Barrage Ballons for Low-Level Air Defence - Historical information and relevance today. (2004-10-01)
Injury May Have Led to Red Baron's Death - Well, of course it did. But this article discusses the possibility that he was suffering from post-concussive trauma from months earlier which led to him acting like he wouldn't have otherwise on the day he died. (2004-09-24)
P-3C Ditches with Four Engines Out, All Survive! - Account of a dramatic event in 1995.%09 (2004-09-24)
International V/STOL Historical Society - Overview of lots of V/STOL aircraft types and articles. (2002-12-23, 2004-09-22)
German missiles that crashed in Sweden 1943-1944 - Interesting read. With illustrations. (2002-12-23, 2004-09-22)
The Surplus Swedish Air Force - Aimed at keeping track of where retired Swedish military aircraft go. (2002-12-23, 2004-09-22)
Ronneby Air Show 2004 - Good photos from Swedish event. (2004-09-21)
Lost nuclear bomb possibly found - It's been missing since 1958, but the pit wasn't installed. (2004-09-15)
- Yesterday was the last day the Jet Ranger, in Sweden designated HKP 6, was in Swedish military service, after having served since 1968. (2004-09-01)
Lasses Flygsida - Mainly good EW Lansen, EW Viggen and Gripen photos by someone who is an EW operator. (2001-03-15, 2002-12-23, 2004-08-25)
Team 60 - The Swedish Air Force display team. (2002-12-23, 2004-08-25)
Aircraft System 37 Viggen - 30 years of service - Article summing upp the development and service, giving a few interesting insights. PDF (678 kb) (2004-08-25)
Mirage 2000H - An Indian air marshal's views on it. (2004-08-09)
Fighter Tactics Academy - One of the absolutely best sites regarding modern military aviation. Goes in depth in several categories, including current events. (2002-12-20, 2004-08-09)
High-Tech Tools and Hard, Hard Work At FOB Rhino - What it takes to keep a dirt runway in usable condition. (2004-08-09)
Junkers Ju287 - Background, development and the designs it led to. (2004-08-04)
Svensk Flyghistorisk Förening - The Swedish Aviation Historical Society. The discussion forum is a good place to ask about Swedish aviation. (2002-12-23, 2004-08-02)
Svensk Flygplanshistorik - "Swedish Aircraft Historical Review (only available in Swedish)." (2002-12-23, 2004-08-02)
Flieger - "Dedicated to the people on the ground that keep the machines in the air. This site contains historic photos from the Swedish Air Force." (2001-03-15, 2002-12-23, 2004-08-02)
Swedish Coast Guard Air Patrol - An unoffical site. (2002-12-23, 2004-07-26)
Beriev A-40 Albatros - Lots of good photos, all over and detail, of this amphibian. (2002-12-23, 2004-07-26)
Arie - "In the mid-70s a group of IAI (Israel Air Industries) engineers and IAF (Israeli Air Force) officers began a new project to develop an ultra modern Israeli fighter aircraft - a project that was to become a quantum leap for the IAI." (2004-07-26)
First Agusta A109Es in Sweden - This one is leased, as will the next one which arrives next week be. They will be used for pilot training until the bought ones start arriving next year, and then returned. A couple of photos of them: I-POWR, I-PAWR. (2002-12-20, 2004-07-21)
The Birth of the Swedish Air Force - One Long Struggle to Get Aircraft to equip Neutral Sweden - Good historical article. (2002-12-20, 2004-07-21)
Vought PA-6 - Vought's first missile - "In 1946, the term "missile" was not in general acceptance. The Navy called their projects "Pilotless Aircraft" (PA)." (2004-07-21)
Building the front end of an Avro Lancaster Bomber of WWII fame - "The story of the construction of the Pilot's, Navigator's and Radio Operator's section of an Avro Lancaster Bomber of WWII with working radar and navigation aids and sound simulation of the 4 Merlin Engines."
Gives details of early electronics. (2004-07-21)
Taiwan holds rare military drill - "Taiwan has closed a busy motorway to let fighter jets use it as an emergency runway and practice refuelling."
No photos of the aircraft or actual operations. (2004-07-21)
The Flying Legends Air Show 2004 - Duxford, UK 10. - 11.7.2004 photos by Jari Juvonen. (2004-07-20)
Swiss Rangers - "Every year, the Swiss Air Force sets up temporary home at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire to enable its pilots to practice the art of air-to-air combat on British Aerospace's Air Combat Manoeuvring Instrumentation (ACMI) range in the North Sea." (2004-07-18)
Flight Decks are Dangerous - "Loose AIM-9 Missile during Aircraft Carrier Landing." (2004-07-14)
The Radioplane Target Drone - "In the mid-1930s, radio-controlled model airplanes became the basis for the Army Air Corps' development of the aerial targets for antiaircraft gunnery training." (2004-07-13)
Last JA 37 Viggen flight at F 21 wing - Some photos of a specially painted fighter Viggen. Text in Swedish. It's been in service with that wing since 1982. Older versions of Viggen will remain there until 2005 (in spite of JA 37 beeing the most modern version). (2004-07-10)
Swiss Recce Mirages 2003 - A few very good photos of a specially painted aircraft. (2004-07-05)
Airshow F14 Halmstad 2004 - A few photos. (2004-07-02)
Movie showing some of the UN's Tactical Airlift Control Element activites at Kindu, Congo - AVI, 32MB, 3 min. (2004-06-17)
Gray F-117 - Photos of it airborne. (2004-06-03)
virtualpilots.fi: War History - Several very good interviews. (2002-12-20, 2004-06-01)
GPS/Inertial Navigation for Precise Weapon Delivery - Article about how it works and why it's useful. (2002-12-20, 2004-06-01)
Some photos by and of a Swedish air force pilot - (2004-05-28)
PB2Y Coronado Engines - "Why did the PB2Y-5 have 4-bladed propellers inboard and 3-bladed props outboard?" No definite answer given, but interesting anyway. (2004-05-26)
BJ Brown's B-58 Hustler page - By a former crew member. (2002-12-15, 2004-05-05)
Optische Zielsuchgeräte - Gun- and bombsights. Text in German, good illustrations. (2004-04-29)
The Aviation World - Not the easiest site to use, but there are photos of Japanese military aircraft which may make it worth visiting anyway. (2002-12-15, 2004-04-29)
Harry's Starfighter Site - Concentrating on a single subject. (2002-12-15, 2004-04-23)
Fighter Armour - On the development of protection of aircraft and pilot. (2002-12-15, 2004-04-23)
Photo gallery - Soviet and Russian aircraft - Good photos, text in Russian, but it's not hard to get around anyway. (2004-04-23)
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm Lampyridae - A bit of background and some good images of this 1980's German stealth fighter project. (2002-12-15, 2004-04-22)
OK3 - "OK3 is a grade received by a Navy aircraft carrier pilot for his or her landing." Concentrated site on aircraft carrier landings, including this stunning photo (showing how not to do it). (2002-11-25, 2004-04-22)
Raytheon's New AIM-9X Sidewinder - Article discussing the use of lock on after launch firing mode. (2004-04-19)
B-29 computer guided turrets - Good explanation of how they were controlled. (2004-04-14)
Working to Reduce Collateral Damage - Designing bombs to give a better controlled effect. One way it to give it a casing of carbon fibre, as this will reduce the fragmentary effect greatly. (2004-04-06)
Fuerza Aérea Salvadoreña - Site in Spanish, but not hard to get around anyway. (2002-11-25, 2004-03-31)
CAS Fundamentals - A couple of articles about close air support. (2002-11-25, 2004-03-31)
Air Vectors - "A survey of aircraft around the world and through history, updated monthly." Extensive coverage and goes into good detail. (2002-11-22, 2004-03-26)
Hazersflightline - Good aviation photography, much of it Canadian subjects. (2004-03-25)
Chasing the red rising sun - Expirences of and photos by aviation photographers visiting Japan. (2002-11-15, 2004-03-24)
Supersonic Low-Altitude Missile - Background and data about the nuclear powered missile also known as Pluto. (2002-11-12, 2004-03-24)
Flying the B-1B Flight Simulator - The experience of a former B-29 gunner when he's given the opportunity. (2002-11-12, 2004-03-19)
Surviving Partial Ejection from A-6 Aircraft - Good text and images. Partial ejection means you're partially in, partially outside of the aircraft. (2002-11-10, 2004-03-19)
Lockheed R6V Constitution - Failed as an airliner, because it was too large, too early. Briefly flown by the US Navy. (2004-03-19)
Photos of intelligence gathering aircraft - Very interesting and some photos are of unusual subjects. Note that much of the information is in the image captions, which you must download the larger images to read.%09 (2002-11-10, 2004-03-19)
Saab 32 Lansen - Celebrating 50 years since the first flight. (2002-11-03, 2004-03-19)
How to Avoid a Heat-Seeking Missile - About airliners, but the principles are the same for all aircraft. (2004-03-19)
DthWeb Aviation Photography - Airshow photographs. (2004-03-16)
Desert Drakens - Some National Test Pilot School Draken photos. (2002-10-27, 2004-03-10)
Boeing Unveils Bird of Prey Stealth Technology Demonstrator - Very interesting project from the 1992-99 period. Also interesting that it can be revealed now. (2002-10-20, 2004-03-10)
F-35 first flight in 2006 - It will take longer than anticipated to get weight down, so no first flight in 2005. (2004-03-03)
Airborne Reconnaissance - Low (ARL) - Some background information about how RC-7 aircraft are equipped. (2002-10-17, 2004-03-03)
The Six That Wouldn't Die - Account and photos of the F-106 which landed by itself after the pilot had ejected. (2004-02-25)
Swedish Viggens for Frisian Flag - Some very good photos. (2002-10-11, 2004-02-24)
Air Force Safety Center Aircraft Statistics - Raw numbers for USAF, but gives some interesting information anyway. (2004-02-23)
Non-Standard DOD Aircraft Designations - Article about misapplied (well, at least if you pretend there's some sort of system) US designations. Includes the best explanation and background for the F-117 designation. (2002-10-03, 2004-02-11)
Aerospace Daily: Keeping Cool A Big Challenge For JSF Laser, Lockheed Martin Says - Seems laser weapons on smaller aircraft are coming closer and closer to being realised. (2002-09-28, 2004-02-11)
Jordanian AF desert defenders - Some good photos. (2002-09-27, 2004-02-11)
The Aircraft Walkaround Center - Extensive. More than 150 subjects. (2002-09-26, 2004-02-03)
Photos from the F 3 wing, Sweden 1950-51 - Captions in Swedish, but very brief so the photos themselves are enough if you want to see some examples of the daily life on the flight line. (2002-09-24, 2004-02-03)
High altitude flying with F-104 - A Norwegian pilot tells about the development of methods to intercept and photograph high flying aircraft. Very interesting, with information on its flight envelope and the standard zoom profile. (2004-02-03)
Guided Bomb Unit-24 (GBU-24) Paveway III - Good overview. (2002-09-20, 2004-01-27)
Airbus lands £13bn MoD contract - Tankers for RAF. (2004-01-26)
A red FFVS J 22 - Discussion in Swedish, but a photo of the single J 22 (22238) which was painted red, with a white flash, as part of the 25 year celebration of the wing F 3 on 1951 Aug 26:th (the J 22s were sort of backup to the Vampires by then). It had lots of equipment removed to give it better performance. (2002-09-20, 2004-01-26)
Northrop N-3PB "Patrol Bomber" - Floatplane, designed in 1939 to a Norwegian requirement. Not used by any other air force. Some more information. (2004-01-26)
JSF System Development And Demonstration - From Lockheed Martin's own magazine Code One. Interesting, with chart showing armament options. (2002-09-19, 2004-01-23)
Re: F-22 redesignated F/A-22 Raptor [usenet] - Reasons why the designation could actually be much longer than that. (2002-09-19, 2004-01-23)
A Nighthawk in Raptor's clothing - About a F-117 painted grey. (2004-01-22)
Night Level-Bombing Navigation Tactics - Knickebein (crooked leg) - Description of the system. (2004-01-20)
AIM 4-D Falcon? - From a discussion board regarding Falcon missiles. Some good information and some not so common photos of missile test equipment. (2002-09-19, 2004-01-20)
Palmdale's inadvertent battle - About how fighters failed to shoot down a drone which was going astray in 1956. (2004-01-19)
YO-3A Quiet Star - Background, data, photos and stories. (2004-01-19)
Flying First World War Fighter 'Scouts' - How their flying properties are, some examples and personal experiences. (2004-01-14)
Junkers Ju 86 in Chilean service - Short history and some photos. (2004-01-09)
EA-18G Growler - The EW version of the Super Hornet. Mainly photos. (2004-01-05)
KT / A-40 Flying tank - Fitting a armoured vehicle with wings and tail instead of loading it in a freighter. (2004-01-02)
Who Killed The Red Baron? - Article detailing the circumstances. (2003-12-30)
When a miss is better than a hit - A P-47 combat story. (2003-12-20)
JL-9 Advanced Jet Training Aircraft - Chinese trainer, made its first flight in Dec 2003. More on Chinese trainers. (2003-12-18)
Italian Ensign Daniela Giordano - Short piece about the first Italian female military pilot. (2003-12-18)
Air & Space Power Journal - A USAF professional magazine with usually several very interesting articles. (2002-09-17, 2003-12-16)
Simulation Cockpit Builders Group - Civilian and military, some information in the Database section includes cockpit photos. (2002-09-17, 2003-12-16)
Photos of the A300 which was hit by a missile - Damage from another angle. (2003-12-03)
Fuerza Aérea del Perú - The official site. (2002-09-17, 2003-11-24)
F-16 Fighting Falcon Production Block Designations - Lists and describes the variants. (2003-11-19)
The Advanced Block 50/52 F-16 - Article detailing the new features. (2003-11-19)
Aviation Nation - 2003 - Photos from an airshow at Nellis AFB. (2003-11-18)
MAKS 2003 - Airshow photos. (2003-11-07)
Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems - "The Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) program is a joint DARPA/Air Force/Navy effort to demonstrate the technical feasibility, military utility and operational value for a networked system of high performance, weaponized unmanned air vehicles to effectively and affordably prosecute 21st century combat missions, including Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD), surveillance, and precision strike within the emerging global command and control architecture." (2003-11-05)
RX12874 - Passive Detection ECCM System - Fascinating read about how triangulation of jammers worked in the RAF Linesman/Mediator system. (2003-11-04)
The Spadguys Speak - Letters from A-1 Skyraider pilots telling about how it was flying them. (2002-09-10, 2003-11-04)
Bombed by Blinders - An operational history of Tu-22 in combat. (2003-10-29)
Air Force: No Plan To Retire A-10 - "The Air Force plans to keep the A-10 Thunderbolt II flying until 2028, said the general who was alleged recently to have ordered a subordinate to research how the service could justify mothballing the fleet of 363 ground-attack aircraft." (2003-10-29)
Gloster Gladiator - Mostly about the operational history of the aircraft, with several air forces. (2003-10-29)
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter - A good overview of all the versions and operators. (2003-10-29)
Vulcans in Camera - Avro Vulcan photo collections. (2003-10-23)
Unmanned Systems Committed to Iraqi War - Not only airborne systems. An overview of the systems themselves, not about the operational use. (2003-10-14)
Re: Syrian and Iranian AF 2003 [usenet] - Good explanation of why you can't always believe all you read. (2003-10-13)
Re: So you think you got a big layout? [usenet via Google] - Description of a water tank, with an accurate model of the southern SF bay area, with sonar used to simulating radar returns from a moving P-3. (2002-09-05, 2003-10-06)
Assembly of F/A-22 jet parts a model of efficiency - Newspaper article about the assembly process. (2003-10-06)
FFVS J 22 colour profiles - Sideviews of this Swedish fighter. (2003-10-04)
World's Armed Forces - Overviews of a selection of air forces. (2003-10-01)
The F-16 Cockpit - Very good article which goes into detail regarding some aspects of the cockpit and how to use it. (2003-09-22)
The Vampire Trainer - Recent air-to-air photography of a Swedish DH 115. (2003-09-22)
Red Flag 2003-4 - "Thunder, lightning, and rain. These were not conditions for fine photography. Often the only illumination would be the sun poking out through a small opening in the sky." (2003-09-16)
Gone with the Wind - Getting intelligence by inspecting foreign equipment, some case stories. (2003-09-15)
Lavochking La-9 photo gallery - Restored example's flight. (2003-09-15)
To War with the Mustang - A crew chief remembers. (2003-09-04)
Swiss Mustangs - "This site is a tribute to the North American P-51 Mustang fighter plane in general and especially to its service with the Swiss Air Force 1948 %96 1958." (2003-09-04)
Re: So you think you got a big layout? [usenet via Google] - Description of a water tank, with an accurate model of the southern SF bay area, with sonar used to simulating radar returns from a moving P-3. (2002-09-05, 2003-09-03)
Pierced Steel Plank - Brief info on its use to make semipermanent runways. (2003-09-02)
Photographs taken by Jack Harker around Kimpo airfield: Korea 1953 - Mostly RAAF 77 Squadron Meteors. (2002-08-30, 2003-08-28)
509th Composite Group - Photos of the nuclear bomb B-29 group. (2003-08-20)
Exhumating the Dead Iraqi Air Force - "On 6 July 2003, the US troops deployed in Iraq found a large number (between 30 and 40) of Iraqi Air Force aircraft, dug in into the sand near the al-Taqaddum AB, some 250km west of Baghdad." (2003-08-18)
DC-2 and 3 in military versions - Lots of different designations were assigned and used. (2003-08-18)
RB-29 Crew Operations - Recollections of an RB-29 Crew in Japan. (2003-08-07)
Major General Frederick C. 'Boots' Blesse - A very interesting interview with a Korean War fighter ace. (2003-08-07)
Army developing new aircrew survival knife - The design seems focused on the Aircrew Survival Egress Knife part, rather than living in the wild. [image]. (2003-08-04)
Boeing NT-43A Radar Test Bed Sighted in Death Valley - In this case when using its radar on a B-2. (2003-07-30)
Le Bourget / Paris Airshow 2003 - Lots of photos. (2003-07-15)
A Classified Lockheed Martin Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft Was Used in Iraq - Something like a larger DarkStar was used in small numbers. (2003-07-07)
Rafael introduces Python 5 full sphere IR missile - Basically a Python 4 with lock on after launch capability, new seeker and better autopilot. (2003-06-20)
Balloons in the American Civil War - Brief history. (2003-06-19)
Stellan Anestad's Photos from the Swedish Air Force - Photos by a pilot, first in the navy, later in the air force. Unfortunately he didn't comment on the photos himself, but they're captioned as well as is possible. (2002-08-29, 2003-06-19)
Implementing Acquisition Reform: A Case Study on Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) - Long paper which focuses on the economics of developing a new weapon. The Joint Direct Attack Munition: Making Acquisition Reform A Reality - A shorter paper. (2002-08-23, 2003-06-06)
Tribute To John R. Boyd - About a fighter pilot who analyzed fighter combat in important ways. (2003-06-05)
The Helicopter Page - A helicopter pilot explains very well how helicopters work. (2003-06-05)
Starfighter Down: Ejection from a YF-104 Starfighter - First hand account of a test pilot's ejection. (2003-06-05)
First Yak-130 delivered to the Russian air force - Article is in Russian, but can be translated with Babelfish. (2003-06-04)
FM 44-80 Visual Aircraft Recognition - US military manual (2002-08-21, 2003-06-04)
Luft '46 - Descriptions of German wartime projects, with information, drawings, rendrings and model photos. (2002-08-20, 2003-06-04)
RAF Missiles and Weapons - The official site. (2003-06-04)
Giora Epstein's logbook - Personal records by a jet fighter pilot who has shot down 17 aircraft in combat. (2002-08-20, 2003-05-28)
Polish Fulcrum's Page - A MiG-29 site. (2002-08-19, 2003-05-28)
Mercosur Armed Forces Video - Argentinian and Brazilian related subjects. (2002-08-19, 2003-05-26)
www.amarc.dk - A site by an F-4, F-104 and F-16 fan. Information and mainly photos. (2002-08-15, 2003-05-23)
Why the pilot of the Enola Gay has no regrets - Interview with Paul Tibbets, mostly about the background, the practicalities and some about the plans (like to bomb Europe and Japan at the same time and that a third bomb was being readied to be dropped on a Japanese target). (2002-08-13, 2003-05-15)
F-16 simulator goes high energy - Article about how the USAF is studying how to use high power lasers in combat. (2002-08-12, 2003-05-15)
Scramble on the Web: Swedish Air Force - Order of battle, database, aircraft overview. A bit outdated in parts, but quite a bit of useful information. (2002-08-06, 2003-05-14)
Nordic Peace 02: Chopper Chats - About the helicopter part of the exercise, with Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish helicopters and crews. (2002-08-06, 2003-05-14)
Hikoki:1946 - Experimental jet, rocket & prop aircraft of the I.J.N and I.J.A. which were and could have been. (2002-07-24, 2003-05-13)
Martin XB-51 - Interesting bomber of unusual configuration which wasn't selected for production. See also Martin 234 XA-45, XB-51 Tactical Bomber. (2002-07-16, 2003-05-13)
The Fokker Triplane - "Informative Speech I Gave in Spring 1997 About a Famous World War One Aircraft." (2003-05-12)
Bomb sights of WW2 - Some of the major types used by RAF Bomber Command aircraft. (2002-06-26, 2003-05-08)
Beuteflugzeuge 1933-45 - "This resource sets out to list and illustrate every captured aircraft flown in service or tested by the Luftwaffe between 1933-45. This includes detailed listings of the types tested and pressed into service." (2002-06-26, 2003-05-08)
Jets45 - Very good site about all jet, ramjet and turboprop powered aircraft made or under construction before the end of 1945. (2003-05-07)
Korean Aerospace Industries T-50 Golden Eagle - Overview of the programme and photos. (2003-05-06)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - An overview of many systems. (2002-06-26, 2003-05-06)
Pulqui: Argentina's Jet Adventure - A brief illustrated overview. (2002-06-26, 2003-05-06)
Boeing ScanEagle UAV Makes First Autonomous Flight - A press release. The video is worth watching for the unusual landing technique. (2002-06-24, 2003-05-06)
USAF Offers Details Of Weapon Tailored For Iraq War - It's the CBU-107 Passive Attack Weapon, a WCMD filled with thousands of kinetic energy rods instead of explosive submunitions. No details as to target type, but to me it's clear it has to be really soft ones, as the WCMD isn't designed to give a lot of kinetic energy to its payload. My guess this is mainly for cases where you want to shoot at something very close to your own troops. The "100 feet destructive radius" is a strong indication of that. (2003-05-06)
39th Aggressor Squadron: Multimedia Downloads - Several very interesting videos. The one with 2 F-16s vs 5 A-7s in particular explains a lot about what goes on between aircraft in a unit during combat. (2002-06-19, 2003-05-05)
Sea Stories: Kosovo MiG Kills - A pilot's account. (2002-06-18, 2003-05-05)
Prototypes.com - Site about the more unusual aircraft there are, both production, experimental and concepts. (2002-06-18, 2003-04-29)
Biplane Fighter Aces from the Second World War - A bit more information here than one could think. (2002-06-14, 2003-04-29)
Morane-Saulnier N - Long article with information about this aircraft. (The rest of the site seems mostly to be about paper card models.) (2002-06-14, 2003-04-28)
Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate - More about the organization than about specific weapons. (2003-04-24)
Chinese Defence Today: Air Force - Good overview of its organization and presentation of aircraft types. (2003-04-24)
Aerophoto International - Lots of good photographs, mainly airshows and exercises. (2002-06-13, 2003-04-24)
Tornados in Sweden - During Baltops2 German Torndos are based in Sweden, Ängelholm. Photos here. Text in Swedish. (2002-06-12, 2003-04-24)
ILMA 2002 war-exercise - Pictures from a road base in southern Finland, during a Finnish air force exercise,5th June 2002. (2002-06-12, 2003-04-24)
"I decided to use... the air-to-ground rocket pod" - Account of two MiG-17 shootdowns by a Skyhawk pilot. (2002-06-06, 2003-04-24)
Aerodynamic highlights of a fourth generation delta canard fighter aircraft - This document starts off with an ingress in Swedish, but the main part is in English and is a very interesting article about Gripen aerodynamics. (2002-05-30, 2003-04-15)
Flight-History.com - Main Picture Archive - Older photos. Unfortunately not always captioned very well. (2002-05-29, 2003-04-15)
A photo of the Barkarby airfield - This used to be the site of F 8 wing, in western Stockholm. It's been more than 20 years since it was used by the air force, but it still shows rather well a typical layout of a regular airbase constructed in the 1940's. There are underground hangars in the hill in the middle. (2002-05-28, 2003-04-15)
Air-Scene UK - Lots of articles and photos, mainly airshow related. (2002-05-27, 2003-04-15)
Chico the Gunfighter - The tale of a specially configured F-4E in Vietnam. (2002-05-08, 2003-04-15)
USAF bomb descriptions - Basic data and images of common bombs, from the Jan 2002 issue of the magazine Airman. (2002-05-03, 2003-04-15)
Thomas Genth's aviation page - Photos from personal photo albums from WW1 and WW2. Very interesting. (2002-04-29, 2003-04-15)
Warthog Territory - A site dedicated to A-10 Thunderbolt II. (2003-04-10)
Size of the B-2 cockpit? - Good usenet article describing the interior. (2003-04-06)
Predators akin to traditional aircraft - sort of - Planning and executing UAV operations have similarities with manned aircraft. (2002-04-25, 2003-04-01)
Finnish Air Force Aircraft in the World War Two - Not just about the aircraft themselves, but about how they were used and the pilots who flew them. (2002-04-23, 2003-04-01)
Into the night - An account of an ejection from a B-1 bomber over the Indian Ocean. Contains some factual errors like the number of supersonic ejectees and the differences between MB and ACES II seats (which if it's true in USAF service has more to do with generations, the NACES is made by Martin-Baker and has a 100% success rate). (2002-04-15, 2003-04-01)
CombatAircraft.com - Brief overviews on quite a lot of different aircraft types. (2002-04-12, 2003-04-01)
F-15E Strike Eagle - Miscellaneous information, including several multimedia files. (2002-04-02, 2003-04-01)
F-14 Walk-Around Details - Extensive site with good information. (2002-04-02, 2003-04-01)
X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator - NASA fact sheet. (2003-03-30)
Israeli Weapons - Missiles - Overview of different systems. (2003-03-26)
The Dragon Lady Meets the Challenge - The U-2 in Desert Storm. (2003-03-26)
Scramble Photo Gallery - Good photos. (2003-03-25)
Indian Air Force - The official site. Quite strong on history. (2002-03-20, 2003-03-25)
Eject - An ejection seat site. Photos, history and quite a bit of detail on some seats. (2002-03-18, 2003-03-25)
Aircraft resurrected for third life - About a crashed Hercules, which spent 17 years in snow and ice and is now being refurbished again. (2002-02-28, 2003-03-25)
Zveno 'Aviamatka' - Mostly a modelling project, but has some information about the project to fit a TB-3 bomber with up to five parasitic fighters. (2002-02-19, 2003-03-25)
"Blackhawk Down" Pilot Story - A pilot who was there comments on the movie. (2002-02-18, 2003-03-25)
Navy relies on volunteer warbirds - The New Zealand Navy has had an A-37, a Hunter and a Magister participating in an exercise. Because there's no jet aircraft in the New Zealand forces any more. (2002-02-18, 2003-03-25)
Scott's Homemade Jet Engines - Hobbyist site, but has good information and links about early jet engines. (2003-03-24)
J-10 Fighter Programme - Information and images of the new Chinese fighter. (2003-03-21)
Russian Air-to-Ground Weapons - Extensive overview. (2003-03-20)
U-boat Radar Detectors - Article about German radar warning sets. (2003-03-20)
Boeing Condor - Brief overview of the large UAV. It's now an exhibit in a museum. (2003-03-20)
Iraq Maps - (2003-03-20)
USS United States (CVA-58) - Fiscal Year 1949 Building Program. Cancelled April 1949. Artists impressions, the actual keel layed down and model photos of this cancelled aircraft carrier. (2003-03-19)
Fi-3 Redivia - A project to build a flying replica of the cargo glider Fi-3 (Swedish Air Force Lg 105). The text is in Swedish, but there are some photos as well. (2003-03-19)
Warbird Alley - "A complete Web resource for owners, operators, restorers, maintainers and enthusiasts of classic ex-military aircraft." (2003-03-19)
Air & Space - Quicktime Sightings - Short aviation videos of diverse subjects, from flutter windtunnel tests, spacecraft to VTOL. Very interesting. (2003-03-19)
It's the Big One - Some information on the large MOAB bomb. For example, it's sort of a scaled up Small Diameter Bomb. (2003-03-19)
Picture News - Chinese Military Forces - Latest is of the JH-7A Fighter-Bomber. (2003-03-19)
Fleas versus Falcons over Biafra - Short history and assessment of the MFI-9B "MiniCOIN" in Biafran air force service - A good account. Not very long to read. (2003-03-19)
Tactics Development - Finnish fighter tactics and training before and during the WW II. (2003-03-18)
United States Air Force Link Gallery - Featured photos and an archive going back to 1995. (2002-02-05, 2003-03-18)
The South African Air Force - An unofficial site. (2002-02-05, 2003-03-18)
Lockheed AH-56A Cheyenne - Mainly a photo site about this compound helicopter and its development predecessors. Very little text information. (2002-02-05, 2003-03-18)
The Strange Mechanism Museum - The aircraft section of this site which is about unusual designs, projects, prototypes and production. Emphasis is on imagery. (2002-02-04, 2003-03-18)
Convair XFY-1 Pogo - An interesting but impractical VTOL aircraft. (2002-01-29, 2003-03-18)
Flanker Cockpits - A photo collection. (2003-03-17)
Dryden Research Aircraft Movie Collection - "This collection contains short digitized video clips of many of the unique research aircraft flown at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center from the 1940s to the present." (2003-03-17)
Aircraft Movies - A list of links. (2003-03-17)
F-104 Starfighter in Norway - Good site about a specialized subject. (2003-03-17)
Ex Yugoslavia Airforces - Partly in English. History and current status. (2003-03-17)
American Aces of World War II - Brief accounts of the pilot, information about their aircraft. (2003-03-17)
8th Army Air Force Groups - "This site is dedicated to all those who flew and served in the US 8th Army Air Force Fighter Command during World War 2. It is a consolidation of details gathered over many years including the various reference works published on the subject and is presented as a research tool to 8th Air Force historians." (2003-03-14)
Pakistan Aviation - PAF Air Force Library - Photos and articles. (2003-03-14)
Japanese Aviation on Mark's Index - Detail about some aircraft types and articles on history. (2003-03-13)
Friends of the SAAF Museum Societ - About some restoration projects and photos of aircraft on display. (2003-03-13)
SAAB 37 Viggen - An unoffical site with facts and photos. (2003-03-13)
Emmanuel Gustin's Aviation History Page - Lots of good information. (2002-01-16, 2003-03-12)
The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? - Looking for a crash site. (2003-03-12)
What Was Airborne Alert Like? - A first hand account of what 24 hour airborne alert flights was like in B-52s. (2002-01-15, 2003-03-12)
Frank's Trip Page - Japan - An aircraft photography trip to Japan in 2002. (2003-03-12)
Yugoslavia's ground strike and trainer aircraft - Brief overview, including photos. (2003-03-12)
Svenska flygmuseer - List of Swedish aviation museums, with links where applicable. Text in Swedish. (2003-03-12)
Navy A-12 Avenger II - Site about the cancelled attack aircraft. (2003-03-12)
Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In - The site sells CDs, but there are samples in RealVideo of old military aviation movies, training and documentary. (2003-03-12)
AvCollect - Site with good aviation photos. Unfortunately designed in a way which can make access difficult (like horizontal and vertical scrolling both needed to see thumbnails). (2002-01-15, 2003-03-12)
Images of the New MOAB Weapon - Largest modern bomb. Photos show the wings and gridfins. (2003-03-12)
Boeing RB-52B - The reconnaissance version of the B-52. (2003-03-11)
Cannon, Machine Guns and Ammunition - Not limited to aviation related subjects, but enough of it for those who are not interested in the rest. (2003-03-11)
Prague Airforce Museum - About a dozen photos of aircraft on display there. (2003-03-10)
Me 262 Project Photo Gallery - A new built example in the hangar. (2002-01-14, 2003-03-10)
Airshow Action Photo Gallery by Peter Steehouwer - (2003-03-10)
AeroBob Images - Primarly US airshow photos. (2003-03-10)
All the World's Rotorcraft - Not just comprehensive in coverage, there's good detailed information on the rotorcraft, from early to modern. (2002-01-04, 2003-03-10)
Aviation Photography by Chris Smallenberg - The military content is primarily from air shows. (2003-03-10)
The Online Blackbird Museum - SR-71 site. (2003-03-10)
Flight of the Valkyrie - Very good article on the XB-70. (2003-03-10)
Lend-Lease - Mainly about lend-lease to the Soviet Union. Not very many articles at present, but several photo galleries. (2003-03-10)
Batcat - USAF 553rd Reconnaissance Wing Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base and their Lockheed EC-121R aircraft. (2003-03-10)
A Hurricane Hunter's Photo Album - Photos of and from WC-130 weather reconnaissance Hercules. (2003-03-10)
Salty Rooster - A USAFE exercise in 1977 intended to test and demonstrate how many sorties an F-4 wing could achieve in a short time. (2002-01-02, 2003-03-10)
Some suggested websites on Swedish aviation history - (2003-03-10)
Fresh Start 2002: Nonstop Flight - About how you go about keeping B-52s flying for another 40 years and what's been done to them so far. (2001-12-21, 2003-03-07)
Chinese Military Aviation - Overview of aircraft types. (2003-03-07)
New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum - A site not just about aircraft (although there are photos of some), but of course people as well. Plenty of good articles on different subjects. (2001-12-11, 2003-03-07)
USAF Flight Surgeon's Guide: Chapter 8 Aerospace Ophtalmology - Long and very interesting read. Covers varying subjects from how eyes work at different altitudes, sunglasses to apparent displacement of objects by compression waves. (2003-03-07)
Russian Aviation Page - Lots of content about different subjects. (2003-03-07)
The Hawker Tempest Page - A very good web page with lots of different material about this fighter. (2001-12-11, 2003-03-06)
German VTO and Helicopter Projects of World War II - Some really far out projects and more practical helicopters. (2003-03-06)
Flygexpo - Swedish veteran aircraft. (2003-03-04)
Defections and Captures of Aircraft During the Cold War and Thereafter - A list with brief information regarding each aircraft. (2003-03-04)
Igloo White - Detailed and very good about remote sensing devices used in Viet Nam. You can compare it with REMBASS. (2001-12-11, 2003-03-04)
Aircraft Pictures from Switzerland - Swiss Air Force (Unofficial) Site and Aircraft Pictures from around the World. (2003-03-04)
Rearwards launching R-73 AAM - (2003-03-04)
Smart Weapons - Overview of US missiles, guided bombs and targeting pods. (2003-03-04)
Missile Index - Extensive overview of missile types. (2003-03-04)
PapaRomeo: Gunsight Table - Information and images of gunsights in 1940's aircraft. (2001-11-13, 2003-03-04)
Hard and/or Deeply Buried Target Hard and/or Deeply Buried Target - Overview of deeply penetrating bombs. (2003-03-04)
Director, Operational Test and Evaluation - A US site where you can find lots of information about different weapons programmes. (2001-11-13, 2003-03-03)
Skytamer Images - Mainly photos, but also other information about aviation in general. (2001-11-13, 2003-03-03)
Air Force designates new aircraft - USAF will call its new multisensor command and control aircraft E-10A. (2003-03-01)
The Good..the Bad...and the Ugly! - A compilation of the world's ugliest aircraft. (2001-11-13, 2003-02-27)
Fairchild C-123 Provider - Good overview of its development history. (2003-02-27)
A Frozen Hell: The Air War Over Korea 1950-1953 - Really good articles. (2001-11-13, 2003-02-21)
Lockheed Blackbirds - A U-2 and A-12/YF-12/SR-71 site. I didn't know U-2s had been used to photograph the Space Shuttle during launch, I learned that here. (2003-02-21)
Open Source Research and Analysis Activity - Tables of data for the 1991 Gulf War and a bit more. (2003-02-20)
Helicopter History Site - Good coverage of the subject. (2003-02-20)
True Supersonics - Site about really fast aircraft, mostly in Russian. (2003-02-20)
WW II Ace Stories - About and sometimes by the pilots themselves. Very interesting reading. (2001-11-08, 2003-02-20)
Airborne Early Warning Association - Information about and photos of many types of AEW aircraft. (2003-02-20)
Falklands War 1982 - (2003-02-20)
F-111 Attack Computer Details - Not a little information that has to be entered manually into it. (2001-11-02, 2003-02-20)
International Air Force Directory 1999 - Maybe not totally up to date, but still quite useful. (2003-02-20)
WWII Japanese Aircraft Photos - Quite comprehensive and lots of photos. (2001-11-02, 2003-02-20)
Ejection Seat Page - Very good site with images, timeline and physics of ejecting. (2003-02-20)
All Aviation FlightLine Online - Mostly about air racing. Very good photos. (2003-02-20)
Spectre Gunner's home page - Very good site with facts, stories and information. Some other gunship sites are these: USAF factsheet: AC-130H/U Gunship, site with photos and stories: USAF AC-119 Gunships, here are a few good photos: AC-130H Spectre Gunship. (2001-10-19, 2003-02-20)
USS Midway - A personal site about the aircraft carrier and related subjects. Lots of interesting photos of day to day situtations. (2003-02-20)
The Latin American Aviation Historical Society - Plenty of good articles with a high proportion of military subjects. (2003-02-20)
Västgöta Veteranflygförening - Operates preserved Hawker Hunters (and maybe in the future other types) in Sweden. (2001-10-12, 2003-02-20)
The Ejection Site - Very good ejection seat resource. (2003-02-20)
J 29 Gul Rudolf - About the restoring a Saab Tunnan to airworthy condition. (2001-10-12, 2003-02-20)
On Camouflaged Wings - "Welcome to "On Camouflaged Wings"! What I have tried to create here is a research and information page, with interesting photos, articles, and of course, links to other sites." (2003-02-20)
DASH History - About the QH-50 drone helicopter, which could be armed with two ASW torpedos or a nuclear depth charge, so the concept of and working UCAV isn't that new. It was also given other weapons. (2001-09-28, 2003-02-20)
The Aircraft Walkaround Center - "This page is aimed at all scale model aircraft builders with a special interest in technical functions and DETAILING." More than 190 different aircraft featured. (2001-09-14, 2003-08-23)
Schweizer RU-38B Twin Condor - Interesting surveillance aircraft. (2003-02-19)
Flightpix - Air Show 2001 at Uppsala F16 - Good photos. (2001-09-14, 2003-02-19)
Elevon - Aviation on the Internet - Data on lots of types aircraft. (2003-02-19)
MAKS 2001 photos - Photos from the airshow in Russia in August. (Lots of relatively large inline photos.) (2001-08-28, 2003-02-19)
Thunder and Lighnings - Very good site, mainly about jet aircraft in British service. (2003-02-19)
Japanese Aircraft & Ship Modelling - Has information of interest even if you're not a modeller. (2001-08-22, 2003-02-19)
C-130 Hercules Headquarters - "This unofficial site is dedicated to the mighty Herk and all those who fly, maintain, and build this venerable multi-talented aircraft past and present." (2003-02-19)
Swedish Air Force Unofficial C-130 Hercules Page - Photos and brief histories of Swedish Herculeses. (2001-08-21, 2003-02-19)
Sentry Aviation News - "Our mission is to publish photographs of military aircraft." (2003-02-19)
Military Aviation in Sweden - Aircraft Gallery - Very good site with images and information about Swedish military aircraft, starting with early ones like the balloons and with good coverage of early types which otherwise aren't well represented on the web. (2001-08-20, 2003-02-18)
Duncan's F-86 Sabre website - Lots of information. (2001-08-17, 2003-02-18)
Divisionsemblem - Swedish air force squadron badges. (Text in Swedish.) Briefly: 1:st sqn in a wing has the colour red, 2:nd blue, 3:rd yellow, (5:th black), so these badges are from different eras. Wing 1 has the letter A and so on which can be seen in some emblems. (2001-08-17, 2003-02-17)
Uncommon Aircraft - A website dedicated to providing i nformation about little-known military aircraft. (2003-02-17)
Magic for scientists as missile laser finds its mark - About the first laboratory trials of MURLIN, and Australian IR jamming multispectral laser. Not heavy on technical details. (2003-02-15)
The Aeronut - Photo Essays - Air to air photography of vintage military aircraft. (2001-08-08, 2003-02-14)
The Unofficial Northrop F-5 Homepage - Background, information and photos. (2003-02-14)
Code One Magazine: Archives: Second Quarter 2001 - The X Planes - Good article summarizing the X planes up until the X-45. (2001-08-01, 2003-02-14)
Planes and Pilots of WWII - "An online World War II aviation history magazine." Lots of very good content. (2003-02-14)
Paris Airshow & Walkaround - Also some other photos, like walkarounds of different aircraft. (2001-08-01, 2003-02-14)
Sky-Flash - Good aviation photography.%09 (2003-02-14)
Reflector and Gyroscopic Gunsights used in WWII aircraft - An overview mostly of sights in RAF aircraft. (2001-07-30, 2003-02-14)
Midnight Sun Air Show 2003 - The Swedish Air Force's web site about the airshow in Luleå on 14:th June. Text in Swedish (so far). (2003-02-13)
Aeroflight - Overviews of aircraft and air forces from all over the world. (2003-02-13)
DoD's Gansler on JSF Acquisition Plans - Pentagon Transcript of Briefing on the Joint Strike Fighter by Dr. Jacques Gansler, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. (June 2000) (2001-07-30, 2003-02-13)
Aviaworld's Military Aircraft Photo Gallery - Some less common subjects, like Hong Kong and Lesotho, as well as more well known air forces. (2003-02-13)
Interview with Frank Simon, German Luftwaffe Mig-29 Pilot - Interesting viewpoints, for example on the MiG-29's radar: "There is not much sense in radar search plans, cursor coordination, radar meld, targeting and sorting plans since the radar is simply not up to such sophisticated tactical approaches. And that makes a lot of work unnecessary." Also some views on PC games. (2001-07-24, 2003-02-13)
F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) - Very interesting site with lots of content. (2003-02-13)
Muche's Warbirds: Warbird photography at its Best - Plenty of good photos. (2003-02-13)
Aircraft Walk Around Section - "The photos which you'll see here have been taken with the modeler in mind." Me, I'd say these photos are very interesting even to others. Lots of aircraft types covered, in good detail. (2001-06-15, 2003-02-13)
Aerophoto International - Very extensive personal aviation photo site. (2003-02-13)
Allies X Planes - "What would have happened in the European skies if WWII had not finished on 1945?" Mainly photos and brief information about subjects which aren't well covered by other sites, as opposed to the German ones. (2003-02-13)
Jetpix.com: Joe Oliva Aviation Photography - Good photos of US subjects. (2001-06-14, 2003-02-13)
WCS - it made the F-4 a "triple-threat" fighter aircraft - Very good site on the F-4 Weapons Control System. (2003-02-13)
Goodyear GA-468 Inflatoplane - Technical data and a photo of the aircraft which, as the name implies, was inflatable. Another was Goodyear XAO-3G1. A photo of the Inflatoplane outdoors. The Goodyear XAO-3 Inflatoplane on display in a museum. (2001-06-13, 2003-02-13)
F-15 Cockpit photos (2003-02-13)
See How It Flies - "A new spin on the perceptions, procedures, and principles of flight." An extremely comprehensive site on the theory of flight, lots of good illustrations and clear explanations. (2001-06-13, 2003-02-12)
F-111 Experimental Camouflage Gallery - "The purpose of this web page is to stimulate discussion on the subject of F-111 camouflage." So no photos, only drawings and comments on what the different schemes would be useful for. (2001-06-12, 2003-02-12)
Silent Sentry (PDF) - A passive system by Lockheed Martin which uses broadcast signals to detect and track aircraft. (2003-02-12)
The United States Navy - Fact File - Information about aircraft, weapons and of course ships. (2003-02-12)
North American Eagle - It's a land speed record challenger car, but it's built from an F-104 Starfighter. (2001-06-08, 2003-02-12)
Air Force History Support Office - USAF history, different subjects, more breadth than depth. (2003-02-12)
Maketorama Virtual Gallery - Yugoslavian subjects. (2003-02-11)
SkyFlash RAF Mildenhall 2001 photos - Good airshow photos. "You won't find the static shots here, we don't like them." (2001-06-08, 2003-02-11)
Vidsel photo archive - Which somewhat surprisingly (perhaps not really, as Vidsel is a major tests and live firings by the air force and other customers) has three sets of aviation photos from Farnborough, Hendon and Duxford. (2001-06-07, 2003-02-10)
Lockheed X-27 CL-1200 Lancer - Starfighter fuselage, other wing and engine. Another brief article on it. (2003-02-10)
Condensation over a transonic F-14 - Explanation of a photo which usually is attributed to supersonic effects, and some other photos showing the same kind of effect. (2001-06-05, 2003-02-08)
Air Force 2025 Final Report - USAF future study. (2003-02-06)
F-16 GCAS You Can't Fly Any Lower - Experiences with a Swedish/US collision-avoidance system, trialled for a possible installation in Gripen and USAF fighters. ""The roll onset rate is faster than any pilot can command," Prosser added. "There's no way you can move your hand that fast to command a sharp onset. It's so fast that you get the impression the roll rate is much higher than it is."" (2001-06-01, 2003-02-06)
Issodun: The Making of America's First Eagles (PDF) - About WW1 flight training. (2003-02-06)
Air Combat Information Group - "Its main purpose to offer a single source of reference and an oversight about the use of air power during every war, crisis, emergency, incidents or accidents which have happened in the last 55 years." (2003-02-06)
Gripen Datalink Is a Swedish First - Why the Swedish data link is in some ways better than what other defence forces has. (2001-05-29, 2003-02-06)
Teledyne Ryan Q-2/KDA/xQM-34/BGM-34 Firebee - A large family of drones and RPVs described. (2003-02-06)
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center - url=http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/ (2003-02-05)
Royal Netherlands Air Force - This site is mainly about F-16. Lots of interesting information for example in the MLU section. (2001-05-29, 2003-02-05)
Republic XF-12 Rainbow - Experimental reconnaissance aircraft. (2003-02-05)
Non-U.S. Military Aircraft Designation Systems - Not of many countries, but well researched for those listed. (2001-05-29, 2003-01-31)
The Man-Made Earthquake - A Short History of Very Heavy Conventional Aerial Bombs - The focus is on Tallboy, Grand Slam and US bombs from the 1940's and 50's. (2003-01-31)
Wasserfall Anti-aircraft Missile - Pictures and plans for the deployment of this German missile from the 1940's. Interesting to see how the missile itself evolved. (2001-05-29, 2003-01-30)
Escadron de Reconnaissance 1/33 'Belfort' - French Air Force wing operating Mirage F1CR. (2003-01-30)
Stormbird Rising - Me 262 in the Repair Shop - Photos of the Me 262 replica which had an incident recently. (2003-01-29)
Daniel K Aviation Images - Airshows, miscellaneous and particularily some unique galleries of Swedish subjects. (2001-05-29, 2003-01-28)
North American F-100 Super Sabre - The "Hun" - Good content in this single type web site. (2003-01-28)
F-106 Delta Dart - Miscellaneous about a single aircraft type. (2003-01-28)
Hughes XF-11 - Experimental photo reconnaissance aircraft. More: XR-11 / XF-11 (2003-01-28)
Code One Magazine On-line - "Code One Magazine is a quarterly publication of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company. The magazine covers the F-16 fighter community and Lockheed Martin fighter programs, including the F-16 Fighting Falcon, F/A-22 Raptor, and the Joint Strike Fighter." (2003-01-28)
EP-3E ARIES II SSIP Aircraft - Text and photos. (2001-05-28, 2003-01-28)
SAAB 91 Safir - Comprehensive site about this classic aircraft. (2001-05-28, 2003-01-27)
United States Air Force Museum - As museum sites go, this one is quite extensive. (2003-01-27)
Maxwolf's photos from Visby's avia museum - Draken, Tunnan, Viggen and Viggen cockpit interior. (2001-05-28, 2003-01-27)
Photo of USS Abraham Lincoln undergoing maintenance of the flight deck. - (2003-01-27)
Flottilj- och divisionsemblem - Swedish air force wing and squadron badges - text in Swedish. (2001-05-28, 2003-01-27)
World Air Forces - Historical listings of aircraft used, genealogy of companies - Quite comprehensive and detailed. (2001-05-28, 2003-01-23)
F.F.V.S. J 22 Fighter Aircraft - From a technical perspective - Very thorough site. (2003-01-21)
The Swedish Surplus Air Force - Lists of what's happened to aircraft individuals after their retirement from service. (2001-04-30, 2003-01-19)
USAF - The official site. Very good photo sections. (2003-01-19)
Don Color - colours and paint schemes. (2001-04-30, 2003-01-19)
Pakistan Institute for Aeronautical Defense Studies - Articles on different subjects. (2003-01-19)
Republic of Korea Air Force - The official site. Not very easy to navigate, but some useful content. (2003-01-19)
Imperaial Japanese Navy Aircraft - This web site sort of fills a gap, in that it provides information about types which aren't featured on several other web sites: E13A Type Zero "Jake", E16A Zuiun "Paul" and F1M Type Zero "Pete". (2003-01-19)
WarBirds - Perhaps most useful content of the site is fuselage and tail markings of Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft. (2003-01-19)
The Kabul-ki Dance - Very good account of the air war over Afghanistan. (2003-01-19)
National Air Intelligence Center History - This unit used to be called Foreign Technology Division. What you can read about is how they got some foreign aircraft. (I guess they can't tell about the most interesting stuff.) (2001-04-30, 2003-01-18)
Japan Air Self Defense Force - The official site. (2003-01-17)
Canberra B.2/6 Call-sign Scorpion 63 - preserved, flying, aircraft. (2001-04-30, 2003-01-17)
SFF links to Swedish Air Museums (2001-04-30, 2003-01-17)
Kiwi Aircraft Images - A large number of photos from New Zealand. (2003-01-15)
La Fuerza Aérea del Perú - Peruvian air force. In Spanish, plenty of good photos and other illustrations, like the ones explaining the MiG-29 weapons system. (2003-01-15)
Aeronaves de la Fuerza Aérea Peruana - Aircraft of the Peruvian air force. In Spanish, but not very text heavy. (2003-01-15)
Gotlands Flygmuseum - museum in Sweden, text in Swedish. (2001-03-30, 2003-01-15)
Almaz - Interesting space station in that it was cannon armed. (2003-01-15)
NTTR Refuelling Instruction - Maps showing how the refuelling areas are planned. Quite interesting. (2003-01-12)
History of the Brazilian Air Force - Also includes current information. (2003-01-10)
Stragglers- "The purpose of this site is to be the meeting ground for people interested in the forcelandings that occured in Sweden during WW2." (2001-03-30, 2003-01-10)
Tyska robotar som störtat i Sverige 1943-1944 - German missiles landing in Sweden, text in Swedish. (2001-03-30, 2003-01-10)
Iran Airshow 2002 - Photos from an industry event. (2003-01-09)
Miliatary Aviation Resources - A link collection. (2003-01-08)
Wartime airbase Brattforsheden - What a dispersed airfield in Sweden could look like during the 1940's. (2001-03-30, 2003-01-08)
Marinha do Brasil - Aeronaves - Aircraft photos by the Brazilian Navy. (2003-01-07)
Scramble on the Web - Swedish Air Force (2001-03-15, 2003-01-07)
French Fleet Air Arm - About the aircraft, squadrons, bases, history and so on. Well organized and good content. (2003-01-07)
Flying the prototypes - Flying American prototype aircraft in the 1940's, a personal account. (2001-03-15, 2003-01-07)
Força Aérea Brasileira - The official site. You'll find the aircraft presentations under "Aeronaves". (2003-01-07)
Deepcold - The Cold War in space: 1959-1969. About planned military spacecraft. (2003-01-07)
Breakthrough in Supermaneuverability - Interview with the Su-27 designer. I don't agree with everything, but there are some very interesting aerodynamic details in it. (2003-01-07)
National Aviation Museum, Ottawa, Canada - (2003-01-07)
Rearwards firing R-73 (2001-02-28, 2003-01-07)
Scottish National Aviation Museum - Museum of Flight - (2003-01-06)
Canda's Air Force - The official site. (2003-01-05)
Report of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces to the Secretary of War 4 January 1944 - Very interesting historical documents. (2003-01-05)
Royal Thai Air Force - The official site. (2003-01-05)
The Unofficial Singapore Air Force Homepage - History, squadrons and operational aircraft. Not very text-heavy. (2003-01-05)
The Israeli Air Force Museum - Unofficial site. Many good photographs.%09 (2003-01-05)
The Israel Air Force - The official site. (2003-01-04)
Yugoslavia Air and Air Defence Force - Documents and photographs. Also about former Croatian, Macedonian Slovenian and Bosnian military aviation. (2003-01-03)
Russian Aviation Research - Aircraft by origin, so there're photos of them in service with other air forces. (2003-01-03)
IPMS/Fort Wayne Aircraft Photo Reference Library - Plenty of detail and overview photos of several aircraft types. (2003-01-03)
Unreal Aircraft - Examples of quite unusual and/or exceptional designs. Some practical, some not. (2003-01-03)

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