• alt.binaries.multimedia.aviation - aviation movies and sounds.
• alt.binaries.pictures.aviation - aviation pictures.
• alt.binaries.military - military pictures, often aircraft ones.
• uk.rec.aviation is a general purpose aviation newsgroup.
• uk.transport.air despite its title, is a newsgroup covering military aviation too. It's pretty quiet though and military discussion is rare.

• Aircraftlocationsandlogs is a fairly quiet group mostly dealing with the wrecks & relics scene in the UK.
• G-DASH at airfields is a busier list dedicated to the contents of mostly civvy airfields and GA stuff.
• Mil-AirUK is a new list for military aviation communications - scanning etc.
• mil-spotters-forum is a mailing list mostly used by hard-core spotters but is useful for non-spotters too, for instance it carries details of participants at airshows, late changes to airshow arrangements, and all sorts of other military aviation related chat. Thankfully now has far fewer handbag-waving sessions than in previous times.
• vintage-and-warbirds/ is fairly self-explanatory but also fairly quiet and deals more with the Australian scene than anything else.

• Avi8 is probably the best one for the general UK aviation/airshow scene and includes contributors who own and fly the aircraft you see at shows.
• FlyPast is another good one particularly for the historic scene.
• The Warbirds Resource Group run several discussion groups among which is the particularly good Warbird Information Exchange. Some of the big names in warbird restoration and recovery participate here.

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