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This page last updated on 27th October 2007

About This Site

This site has a number of sections and a number of reasons for existing. When first created in 1994 (then known as The Hangar), the reason was purely that there were plenty of American aircraft on the web, but very little about British types. From the initial beginnings of simply showing off a few photos of each type it's been expanded so that each type has a history page, sometimes a memories page, a list of surviving examples (with as many pictures as I can get hold of), and a picture gallery including walkaround shots for modellers, topped off with a page listing additional web sites you can visit and books etc. to read.

Aside for the individual aircraft sections, the site has an Airfield Viewing Guide, which is a guide to various airfields in the UK and where you should go to get decent pictures (or just read off serials if you're into that side of things) plus a collection of links to other sites worth visiting (including a clickable map of the UK showing the various aviation museums and organisations).

I've not had a great deal of time to keep the site up to date over the last 2/3 years so much of the links are out of date and the pictures showing their age - a spruce-up is ongoing!

I always welcome submissions of good photographs to add to these pages, so if you have a picture you'd like displayed, mail me about it.

My criteria for including an aircraft on this site are simple:

1. It must have been operated by the British military, spending most of its useful service life in the years after 1945. So you're not going to see Spitfires here, but you will see Meteors (when I get round to it!).
2. There must be at least one surviving example which the public can view (e.g. in a museum).

Suggestions for other aircraft to cover are gratefully received. I will lean towards covering the popular choices first, though I reserve the right to do whatever I feel like!

Recommended Browser

I won't have the arrogance to say 'best viewed with xxxxxx browser' because that sort of thing makes me mad. However appearances do vary from one to another. Enough time has passed that the site will begin to rely on more advanced HTML so complaints about the site looking odd in version 0.1 of a browser written in 1995 won't get answered. However rest assured I won't be stooping to the use of Java, ActiveX or frames! The site will look its best at 1024x768 resolution though you should have no problems with a larger or smaller screen.

Copyright

This site is Copyright © 2007 Handmade by Machine Ltd., All Rights Reserved. My copyright covers these pages and all images credited to 'author' or uncredited; you may not re-publish any image or content from this site without my express permission. This includes:

• Posting them to newsgroups (instead please refer people to this site)
• Displaying them on your own web site (ask me - I may have different images you can use instead of just duplicating the ones here). If you steal images from this site I will take action.
• Displaying any image from this site by linking to the file here (this will not be tolerated)
• Publication on CD or in books or magazines (we can negotiate an appropriate fee - do not expect to just offer a copy of the CD or book or whatever)

Personal use: you're quite welcome to use them as wallpaper on your computer, as reference for modelling, and so on.

If you see a picture credited 'author' that you particularly like, and would like a print or enlargement of it, email me and we'll see what we can sort out. Some of my photos are available for sale here.

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