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This page last updated on 21st May 2005

This particular collection of links is a bit neglected; while I actively seek out good UK-biased sites I don't normally go looking for other ones, so sites on this page are usually found by accident or by recommendation. If you know a particularly good site you think should be linked to here, let me know!

• BHARAT RAKSHAK - The Consortium of Indian Military Websites includes pages on the Indian Air Force, Navy and Army. The section on the India-Pakistan war of 1971 is particularly good.
• Indian Air Force page from Jagan - a great site, getting better all the time, covering Indian warbirds too and even extending to Navy aircraft.
• Portuguese Military Aviation from some ex-PAF personnel. Their mission on this site is to present the correct facts about the story of Portuguese military aviation to the widest audience possible.
• Dean's Unofficial SAAF page has lots of stuff on the South African Air Force. All good chaps of course, seeing as they were Buccaneer operators!
• AirForceLINK - U.S. Department of the Air Force home page.

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• Marco's nicely presented but slow-loading B-58 Hustler Rendezvous site has some rare pictures, models, historic facts, info about the cold war and the Russian jets of this era.
• Zvi Kreisler's excellent Sud Vautour Pages, all about the French jet bomber that provided sterling service for the Israeli and French Air Forces.
• Homage to the Avro Arrow - the Canadians had their TSR.2 fiasco too, though from what I read of the Arrow, it was nearer to being an equivalent of some of the proposed upgraded Lightning variants than the TSR.2.
• Thomas Kraft was an East German MiG-21 pilot, and has used his knowledge to good effect on his MiG-21 Site. History, pictures, articles, etc. Lots to read on a nicely presented site.
• Ladislav Ruzicka's L-59 Albatros site has pictures, data, history and colour references for modellers on this interesting little jet trainer/light attack aircraft and its predecessor the L-39. Ladislav also has a site on the Mi-24 Hind!
• Bill Watkins' Pardon My Intrusion is a site dedicated to the USN's Buccaneer equivalent - the A-6 Intruder. Picture galleries, squadrons, etc.
• Dryden Research Aircraft Photo Gallery contains lots of high quality photos of the various aircraft used for research at NASA's Dryden facility.
• 001 - Flight of The Valkyrie is a well-done page on the ill-fated XB-70.
• Michael A. Quinlan's
• The F-111 Home Page - pictures, sounds, links, articles, tail numbers etc.

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• Daniel Grossman's Airships site has a fair bit of info and piccies of various airships, concentrating on the Zeppelins and the US Navy's airships of the 1930s.
• The Nurflügel Page is number one stop for all flying wing fans, everything from the German WWII designs such as the Horten flying wings to later American efforts.
• Warbirds Resource Group - a site that has gone from strength to strength over the years, with an ever-expanding warbird registry, busy forum and other attractions.

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• Elevon -- Aviation on the Internet has been around for a while but I'd lost the address. Lots of data on lots of aircraft, but don't expect many pictures.
• Phil's Military Aircraft Page - Phil Callihan's been to a lot of museums and airshows and has the piccies here; everything from WW2 V2s to the TSR2 to Tacit Blue.
• Preserved U.S. Aircraft - Bob McKellar's impressive list of preserved U.S. military aircraft; with a few pictures of them.

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• The Anglo-American Lightning Organisation in Mississippi, USA have bought a Lightning (a T.5) and aim to restore her to flying condition. So hopefully Americans will soon be able to hear the shriek of the Avpin starter and the that incredible Avon roar...
• Canada's National Aviation Museum includes some British types.
• Central Finland Aviation Museum. Finland has always operated an unusual mix of aircraft from different nations (MiG-21s and Hawks in service side by side for instance!) and the museum certainly reflects that.
• The Dansk Veteranflysamling (Danish Collection of Vintage Aircraft) in Skjern, Denmark, include a Chipmunk, F-104, An-2 and Auster Autocrat in their collection.
• National Air & Space Museum Home page; another nice US site.
• The New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum have a marvellous web site; lots of info about aces etc. here.
• Queensland Air Museum in Australia. Many British types were used by the Australians and the museum includes examples of the Anson, Canberra, Meteor, Hunter, Vampire, Sea Venom, Sea Vixen and Gannet plus a few more.
• SAAF Museum at SAAF Swartkop, Pretoria and SAAF Ysterplaat, Cape Town in South Africa. Shows off some of the varied collection of aircraft the South African Air Force has operated over the years, including some Buccaneers.
• Strategic Air Command Museum (alternative 'new' site, not as good though, here) near Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Among the expected collection of SAC aircraft like the B-52 and B-47, you can find a Vulcan here, thereby lifting it above the run of the mill huge-museum-with-lots-of-aircraft category :-)
• U.S. 8th Air Force Museum for all you B-17 fans. There's even a Vulcan here too!
• USAF Museum - very nice site! Doesn't always respond though; part time one?
• USS Intrepid Air & Space Museum. I dare say it's the only aviation museum in the world based entirely on an aircraft carrier, and therefore worth a visit for that alone! The A-12 (Blackbird ancestor) and Scimitar would be my first two stops when looking around...

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• alt.binaries.pictures.vehicles sometimes has aircraft pictures.
• alt.binaries.pictures.misc also sometimes has aircraft pictures.
• rec.aviation.military.
• rec.aviation.restoration.

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• Tony Matteliano's Scale Model Index is the place to go for a massive selection of links useful for modellers.
• IPMS Norway provide this very useful list of web pages with aircraft detail pictures. is the place to go for a massive selection of links useful for modellers.
• Wings Over The Web - Scale Modellers And Aviation Enthusiasts Homepage; some Luftwaffe references, VRML models of aircraft, video clips etc.
• Scotty's Home Page for Aviation Nuts - kit reviews and pictures (now more than at his old site, and higher quality too) plus spotter's serial nos and monthly-updated index for Scale Aircraft Modelling magazine's Aircraft In Detail articles.
• Scale Modeller - including a gallery with some superb pics of models.
• Modeller's Home Page - loadsastuff! Just go there...
• German Jets in WWII - model kit artwork and some info.
• rec.models.scale newsgroup and the rec.models.scale Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
• Ninfinger's Scale Models page.
• FineScale Modeler home page
• The Model Page - mostly 1/144 stuff.

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