This thread is an attempt at collecting and organizing the best links for aircraft sites. If you have a site or know of one that has good information, please post it here. Please post your links in an organized manor like my first post please.
Free Sites/Services
- NASA History Office - Quest for Performance
- Very technical report on airplane development from early flight through the jet age.
- National Museum of the USAF
- Site list information and has images of the planes on display at the museum.
- Observation Balloons On The Western Front
- A good writeup on observation balloons.
- Fokker DrI.com
- Lots of info on the Fokker Dr.I
- The Great War Flying Museum
- Photos of rebuilt WWI planes
- The Early Birds of Aviation, Inc
- A listing of everyone in the Early Birds, Aviation death records from the 1900's, and more.
- Historical Aviation Film Unit
- Photographs of WWI planes, inclueding air-to-air shots.
- Canada Aviation Museum
- Photographs of WWI planes.
- The Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum
- Honouring all those associated with Bomber Command during WWII
and commemorating the activities of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.- Wings for Freedom
- The History and Heritage of Canada's Air Forces.
- Wings for Freedom
- "A Rattle of Pebbles: The First World War Diaries of Two Canadian Airmen". Includes maps.
- Austrlian War Memorial
- Over the front. The Great War in the air.
- 3 Squadron
- Australia's Top Guns.
- Digger History
- An unofficial history of the Australian and New Zealand Armed Services.
- The Nieuport Page
- All things Nieuport.
- National Naval Aviation Museum
- US Naval Museum.
Profile and 3 View Sites
- WWI Aviation Pictorial History
- Good write ups on the nations involved, color profile drawings of many of the aircraft, newspaper clippings from the time
- Wings Palette
- A very good database for repainting your planes. Select the aircraft type, then model, then country and finally plane.
- Gaetan Marie Aviation Profiles
- This site has very high quality profile drawings for both WWI and WWII. It's a little limited on the types of planes, but it makes up for it in quality and variations of the ones it does have.
- Clavework Graphics
- Another very good profile drawing site. Lots of aircraft from WWII and newer.
- History in Illustration
- Good profile drawings and some top drawings. Some very good write ups on a few single planes, like Barker's Camel B6313
- The-Blueprints.com
- Data base of multi view drawings. Requires free account to download.
- Albatros D.III's of Austro-Hungary
- A large selection of color profiles.
Paid Sites/Services
- Bob Banka's Aircraft Documentation
- Huge library of 3 View drawings and photos.
Forums/Fan Sites
- The Aerodrome
- Very active site dedicated to all things flying during WWI.
Bookmarks