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Aircraft Types

• BAC 1-11
• Boeing 747SP Website
• English Electric (BAC) Lightning - Vertical Reality
• F-16.net - extremely comprehensive coverage of the GD / Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon
• G-159 Historical Research Museum - Information and images relating to the Gulfstream I
• Helicopter History Site
• Jet Provost Heaven
• Kev's MD11 site
• Oldprops - information and photos
• Strikemaster Heaven
• Swiss Hunters - details and photos of all Swiss Hawker Hunters
• The English Electric Canberra - by Les Bywaters
• The FRADU Hunters Website - detailed study, including many photos
• Thunder and Lightnings - post-WWII British military aircraft
• Vickers Viscount Network

Airfields

• A Catalogue of UK Airfields - by Bones
• Air-Britain Stansted Branch
• Andrewsfield - where I fly from - highly recommended for aircraft hire and flight training!
• EMA Cargo Schedule - cargo schedule for East Midlands
• Gatwick Aviation Society - timetables, info, photographs etc
• Gloucestershire Airport - news, photographs and information
• Great Oakley - a delightful airfield to visit
• Heathrow & Gatwick Airport Movements
• PB-Photos.com - excellent airfield maps including viewing/photography locations
• Plane Mad - airport guides, forum etc
• SpottersWiki - airfield viewing and photography wiki
• Stansted Aviation Society
• The Aviation Society - Manchester
• Wattisham Airfield - by the Wattisham Aviation Society
• 'november tango' - An Andy Hutchings Website - Newcastle

Airfield History

• Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust - information and photos
• closed - listing of closed airfields in the UK
• Control Towers - UK airfields of WWII
• Milfield, not just an airfield
• Military Aircraft Directory - historic airfield and navigation charts
• RAF Fairlop
• RAF Greenham Common
• RAF Lichfield Association
• RAF Upper Heyford
• Welcome to rafwatton.info - snapshots from the history of RAF Watton and Bodney
• WW2 Airfields of Oxfordshire

Airshows

• DeltaWeb Airshow Guide - global airshow calendar
• Royal International Air Tattoo - the world's largest military airshow
• Starfighters Airshow Demonstration Team - US display team flying F-104s

Flying

• Aeronatical Information Service - IAIP etc
• Air Accidents Investigation Branch - UK air accident and serious incident investigations
• AOPA UK - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
• Aviation Medica - AME for Andrewsfield (and Stansted and Stapleford)
• Fly On Track - airspace infringements and how to avoid them
• Flyer - magazine, excellent forum
• Irv Lee's Homepage - excellent information on the FAQ page
• LAA - Light Aircraft Association (formerly the PFA)
• Pilot Magazine
• Pilot's Log - online logbook
• SkyVector - online aeronautical charts
• ukga.com - flight planning, airfield reviews etc
• UK Military AIP

Meteorology

• BBC - UK and worldwide weather
• Ipswich Weather Storm/Lightning Tracker - although based in Ipswich, covers most of the UK and nearby Europe
• LightningMaps.org
• Met Office homepage - including aviation service (TAF, METAR, F214/F215 etc)
• metcheck - detailed weather forecasts and reports
• MeteoGroup - detailed weather forecasts and reports, with excellent rainfall radar etc
• Meteox - European rainfall radar
• WX Support - worldwide METARs, TAFs etc

Miscellaneous

• Aerial Visuals - details of preserved and vintage aircraft
• Aeroseek - Aviation website search engine and directory
• Air-Scene UK - military and airshow webzine from Gary Parsons
• AvWeb - Aviation webzine
• BKS Air Transport Ltd - tribute website
• British Caledonian - A Tribute
• British Jet Engine Website - comprehensive information on British jet engines, manufacturers and personalities
• DD Home Entertainment - Aviation DVD and video
• flightdiary - Log of passenger flights, with map and statistics
• Flight International - The world's number one weekly aerospace magazine
• Flightlevel350.com - aviation video clips
• flightradar24.com - live ADS-B traffic plots
• Flightstats - airport timetables etc
• Fly the Legend! Fly a MiG-29 Over Moscow!
• justplanes.com - aviation DVDs, videos, news and information
• Low in the Lakes - military low flying in the Lake District (LFA17)
• Lowfly.net - UK military low flying info
• MACHLOOP - military low flying in mid and north Wales
• openATC - near real-time flight tracking using ADS-B
• RadarVirtuel.com - live ADS-B traffic plots
• RCHobby.co.uk - radio controlled aircraft (and other forms of transport)
• The 'AirNet' Web Site - surely the most comprehensive aviation links website
• The Aviation Bookshop - new and second-hand aviation books
• The Engineering Science Aviation Group - including the RAF Wainfleet weapons range website
• The FRADU Hunter Site Photo Quiz - monthly photo quiz of military types
• The Radar Pages - British Air Defence Radar from Chain Home to the present day
• The Royal Air Force
• Websites hosted by 207 Squadron RAF Association - websites of various organisations with RAF connections
• Welcome to the APH Photo Quiz - monthly photo quiz
• World Air Routes - Airliner flightdeck DVDs and videos

Photography

• Aardvark Aviation homepage - light aircraft
• Air-Britain Photographic Images Collection - from contributors as well as Air Britain's own archive
• Aircraft Photographs and Air Displays by Roger Whitcomb - UK airshow photos
• airliners.net - leading airliner photo site
• Airshow Action Photo Gallery by Peter Steehouwer - photos from airshows worldwide
• Airshow Photo Gallery by Robert Stetter - mainly German airshow photos
• Aviation Photos - airliners
• Aviation Picture Hangar - mainly British military by Garry Lakin
• Dryden Gallery - photos and video of the interesting and rare aircraft at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
• jetphotos.net - online gallery of civil and military photos uploaded by contributors
• Sentry Aviation News - European military
• Unusual Aviation Pictures

Pilot Supplies

• AFE
• Flightstore
• Mendelssohn Pilot Supplies
• Pilot Warehouse
• Pooley's Flight Equipment
• The Flying Shop
• Transair

Preservation

• Arizona Aerospace Foundation - Pima Air & Space Museum
• Bomber Command Museum of Canada
• Gatwick Aviation Museum - classic British aircraft near Gatwick airport
• Jet Age Museum Online - formerly at Gloucestershire Airport (Staverton)
• Midland Air Museum - Coventry
• Trident Three G-AWZK

Radio

• eHam.net - scanner reviews written by users
• Haydon Communications - retailer
• Just Learn Morse Code - donationware tutor that I used to learn Morse code
• Martin Lynch & Sons - retailer
• Nevada Radio - retailer
• Nick Locke's Reporting Points - all you wanted to know about FERIT and friends!
• Online UK Aviation Waypoint Database - VORs, NDBs, airfields etc
• RigReference.com - receiver model information, reviews and photos
• The RigPix database - receiver information and photos
• UK Airband Frequency Guides - electronic and hardcopy resources to purchase
• Waters & Stanton - retailer

Reference Material

• Air of Authority - a history of RAF organisation
• AirNav - US airports, navaids, and reporting points
• Demobbed - out of service British military aircraft
• Globemaster US Military Aviation - database of US military units, bases etc
• The Airline Codes Web Site - Aircraft codes, airline codes, airport codes etc.
• World Aeronautical Database - worldwide airport and navaid database

Registrations and Serials

• Air Fleets - aircraft and airline fleet database
• airframes.org - Aircraft details lookup on registration, selcal or ICAO24
• airlinerlist.com - production lists and histories of most major airliners
• N-Number Inquiry - FAA
• AvIntel - online aircraft data including search and reports
• Commercial Jet Aircraft Census - production list database
• Dave Holder's Airliner Production Lists - jet airliner, prop/turboprop airliner and corporate production lists
• G-INFO Database Search - CAA UK register
• Jetliner Database - production list database
• Joe Baugher's Home Page - USAF, USN, US Army and USCG serials
• Joe Baugher's serial number lists - archive of Joe Baugher's pages
• LAAS International - monthly magazine plus online data including biz-jets and biz-props
• Manx Aircraft Register - by Bones
• N-Number Inquiry - FAA
• On Dutch Wings - databases etc
• Planespotters.net - production lists etc
• rzjets - aircraft, airlines and airports database
• Scramble - monthly magazine plus online data
• Soviet Transports Data Files - comprehensive coverage of Soviet types (including Chinese produced variants)
• UK & Ireland Airline Fleet Listings
• UK Serials Resource Centre
• West Row Ops - wide variety of information, including RIAT and Waddington checklists

Audio

• AudioFile-incar - recommended supplier
• Basic Car Audio Electronics - detailed information
• Cambridge Car Audio - supplier and installer
• the12volt.com - car alarm, car stereo, and cruise control info for Installers
• car audio direct - recommended supplier
• cel-direct.com - supplier
• DND Services - supplier
• In-Car Express - supplier
• lowcostcaraudio - supplier
• mcs - supplier
• rec.audio.car FAQ - newsgroup FAQ

Miscellaneous

• ASKMID - motor insurance database query
• Aston Martin Lagonda Limited
• Auto Trader Interactive - buy and sell used cars
• bentwaters2804 - R34 Skyline GT-R on track
• Car and Deep Cycle Battery FAQ
• Car Care Specialities - good how-to articles
• Carfolio.com - Comprehensive car specifications database
• CBRD - British road directory
• Draper Tools Home Page
• Footman James - recommended classic vehicle insurance
• Honest John - reviews of new and used cars, recall information, road tests etc
• NissanPrimera.net - technical community site for Nissan Primera
• Nissan Skyline - information and photos
• NPOC - Nissan Primera Owners Club
• OBD-II Trouble Code List
• RAC - good traffic information and route planner
• SABRE - British road information
• The Good Garage Scheme - find a good independent garage
• The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM)
• Tire size calculator - useful when upgrading wheels and tyres
• Tyres-Online - tyre information, including reviews
• tyretest.com - comprehensive collection of tyre test reports

Motorsport

• Autosport - UK's premier motorsport magazine with excellent online news
• BookaTrack - favourite trackday organiser
• Champ Car World Series
• FORIX: Formula One Results & Information eXplorer
• IndyCar Series
• wrc.com - World Rally Championship

Parts

• 1st Choice Group
• 24/7 Spares - UK used car parts locators
• Black Circles - Supply and mobile fitting of tyres in the UK
• Blue Print - pattern parts for Japanese and Korean vehicles
• Braided Steel and Aerotek - parts supplier
• Brakes International - online brake parts at low cost
• BuyPartsBy - online car parts at low cost with expert advice
• Car Alarm remotes & immobiliser keys
• DA Autoparts Ltd - used car parts
• Edworthys Online - supplier (also styling, alloys etc)
• etyres - my preferred tyre supplier/fitter
• MotorsportWorld - car tuning parts
• National Breakers - find used vehicle parts
• Need For Speed - Parts and Services for Road and Competition Cars - tuning and styling parts
• Nippon Automotive - Japanese and Korean spares
• SAP - British and non British car / motor spare parts - parts supplier
• Speeding.co.uk - accessories
• Top Gear - mail order exhausts, alloy wheels and tyres

Toyota MR2

• Auto Japanese Spares - new parts, second hand parts, and newly manufactured parts (e.g. drop links)
• Basirk.com - Mk1 MR2 site including Supercharger Super Edition and electric aerial replacement for £25
• Bill Sherwood's Modified 4A-GE Page - 240BHP from the 4A-GE
• Bob Dee's MR2 Mk1 - maintenance articles, photos, links
• Club 4AG - information on the 4A-G engine series
• Explanation of T-VIS
• Fensport - performance Toyota parts
• gtschris.com - new and used parts, repairs, servicing, importing
• IMOC-UK - vibrant online UK MR2 community, centred around a message board
• MR2 - Racing Strong - information including an online parts catalogue
• MR2 Mk1 Club - all things Mk1
• Superb Classics & Sports Cars Ltd - specialist supplier of good condition classic sports cars, including Mk1 MR2s
• TB Development - MR2 parts
• TCB Performance Parts Ltd - second hand and new MR2, Celica and Supra parts
• The International MR2 Owners' Club (IMOC)
• The MR2 Drivers Club Ltd - UK based club
• Westfield Motors - Alternative Toyota and Lexus specialists, Essex
• Woodsport - engine conversions, bodywork

• BBC Business News - business news including market data
• biz/ed Accounting - information on book-keeping, drawing up company accounts etc.
• Interactive Investor - portfolio management, share dealing etc
• Moneyfacts - comparison site
• Money Saving Expert - useful hints and tips
• Say No to 0870 - non-geographic alternative telephone numbers
• VoucherCodes.co.uk - searchable listing of online discount codes

DIY

• Diy Fix It - DIY guides, information etc
• DIY Network - DIY guides, information etc
• helpwithdiy.com
• UK Whitegoods - information on fixing white goods, including a forum
• www.doubleglazingsparesandrepairs.co.uk - suppliers of window handles, hinges etc

Miscellaneous

• Buy With Confidence - businesses vetted and approved by Trading Standards
• Our Property - house prices from Land Registry sales data
• TrustMark - Government scheme for finding reputable builders, electricians etc
• Which? Local - trusted recommendations for various categories of supplier

IT

Development

• Apache HTTP Server Project - the famed Apache webserver
• Apache server error codes - from bignosebird.com (free scripts etc available too)
• ASCII Table
• AspUpoload - ASP component giving easy handling of HTTP uploads
• Color Scheme Designer
• Compact Index of HTML Tags
• CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) - Perl modules
• Git branching model
• kuler - colour schemes
• London Perl Mongers - Perl user group in London
• MySQL - open source database
• OSWD - Open Source Web Design - free web design templates
• Perl Monks - Perl community
• perl.com - useful Perl site from O'Reilly
• PFE (Programmer's File Editor) - My favourite Windows text editor until I discovered PSPad
• pixabay - free stock photos, vectors and art illustrations
• PSPad - my favourite Windows text editor
• SOAP::Lite - SOAP module for Perl
• The Perl Programming Language - official site
• VisiBone Webmaster's Color Lab - Good graphical representation of web-safe colours
• W3 Schools - free web building tutorials, reference works etc
• W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium
• Web Developer - useful Firefox toolbar for web developers
• Welcome to Web Developer Magazine Online
• What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic

Hardware

• GMK Batteries - replacement batteries for laptops, camcorders etc, good prices and service

Internet

• KLOTH.NET - useful utilities such as dig and whois
• Netcraft - research, statistics and security
• thinkbroadband - UK's largest independent broadband information site
• WHOIS lookups

Miscellaneous

• Daniweb - IT discussion community
• FOLDOC - Free OnLine Directory Of Computing
• Font Freak - Free true type fonts and dingbats for both PC and Mac
• free-hotspot.com - search for free wi-fi hotspots world-wide
• OpenSSL Cookbook - a short guide to the most frequently used OpenSSL features and commands
• PC Pro magazine
• The TCP/IP Guide - excellent in-depth reference

Software

• FastStone Image Viewer - excellent freeware image viewer
• GIMP - open source image editor
• iReport - open source standalone report generator for varied datasources, including MySQL
• IrfanView - excellent freeware image viewer, editor and batch editor
• Photopea - advanced image editor that runs in a browser
• Paint.NET - freeware image and photo editor
• Windows IT Pro - Windows FAQs

Suppliers

• cartridgesave.co.uk - low cost printer consumables
• cex - mainly second hand hardware and software, buy as well as sell
• Computer Remarketing Services - refurbished and recycled equipment
• CPC - hardware and software, as well as electronic components, gadgets, DIY etc
• Crucial Technology - memory
• Insight - hardware and software
• mcs.com - new and used hardware
• Misco - hardware and software
• Morgan Computers - surplus systems
• Novatech - hardware and software, PC Pro Online Vendor of the Year 2004
• Printware - printer hardware and consumables
• Saturn Computers - surplus systems and components

System Administration

• A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform
• CentOS - Free Linux distro derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Mailtraq - axlternative to Microsoft Exchange
• Offline NT Password & Registry Editor - (re)set lost passwords (including administrator) for NT, 2k, XP, 2k3 and Vista
• OpenSSL PKCS#12 Usage
• PostCast Server - freeware local SMTP server
• SS64.com - a guide to Windows, Linux, PowerShell, OS X, SQL Server and Oracle commands
• SIW (System Information for Windows) - freeware software that gathers detailed system information
• Windows Sysinternals - advanced Windows system utilities
• winmail.dat decode

Vintage

• Acorn Electron World - massive Electron resource
• BeebEm - my favourite BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator
• EightyOne - emulator for various Sinclair and similar computers
• ElectrEm - Electron emulator
• Ian Bell's Elite pages - from one of the authors of what is possibly the best computer game ever
• Only the Best BBC Micro Games - good reference of some of the best BBC Micro games
• Oolite - a modern take on Elite
• The DigiBarn Computer Museum
• Stairway to Hell - BBC Micro and Electron game archive
• vb81 - ZX81 emulator written in VB6
• ZX81 Homepage - ZX81 info from Matt Barber
• ZX81 Software, Books and Hardware Collection - including many software titles playable on the site in a Java applet

• A Vision of Britain Through Time - including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions
• AuroraWatch UK - alerting for when the aurora borealis might be visible in the UK
• Birmingham Plus - restaurant listings including reviews, good for selecting a balti house if you're passing close to Birmingham
• BT Phonebook - UK online phone directory, business and residential
• challinor.com - information on the Challinor name and its various spellings
• Cheap Smells - low cost aftershave, perfume etc
• Company Check - more free company information compared to Companies House
• Food Hygiene Ratings - Food Standards Agency rating of restaurants etc.
• Goddard Veterinary Group - veterinary surgeries and hospitals in the London area
• GraphSketch - online graphing of functions
• Heavens-Above - artificial satellite visibility
• Images of England - photographs of listed buildings in England in the early 2000s
• Instruction Manuals UK - online instruction manuals
• Laskys - electrical goods retailer with good customer service
• LibreTexts - online free post-secondary education textbooks
• Loughton Astronomical Society
• mapkiosk.com - good source of Ordnance Survey maps
• National Statistics Online - UK government body for statistics
• Palmerston Veterinary Group - veterinary surgery and hospital in Loughton
• Old Maps - old UK maps
• Pork Scratching World - dedicated to the best snack in the World!
• Recent earthquakes around the British Isles - by the British Geological Survey
• Side by Side maps - side by side maps and aerial photography of the UK from the National Library of Scotland
• South Woodford Village Gazette - local magazine for South Woodford, London
• startups - information on starting and running a small business
• Subterranea Britannica - information on underground places in the UK and also cold war sites in the UK
• The Francis Frith Collection - old photos of places in the UK
• UK Aerial Photos - various sources dating from 1947 to the present
• upthecut.co.uk - Birmingham and Black Country canals
• Vet UK - low cost veterinary supplies
• Wikipedia - free encyclopaedia
• WolframAlpha Factoriser Widget - factorises quadratic equations online
• WW2 & Cold War History in Britain
• Yahoo Babel Fish - translator
• Yell.com - UK yellow pages

Miscellaneous

• Minidisc Community Portal
• Smokestack Lightnin' - Internet blues radio

Stores

• base.com
• find-cd.co.uk - attempts to find the lowest price from a variety of stores
• Hancock & Monks Music Emporium - classical music

• 10X50.com sound files - bird song
• Avisoft Bioacoustics - bird song
• Bat Conservation Trust
• Birdforum.net - lots of bird information including bird song
• British Big Cat Society
• British Butterflies by Steven Cheshire - includes species photos and descriptions
• British Dragonfly Society - includes species photos and descriptions
• British Garden Birds - excellent reference, including songs and calls
• Cambridge and Essex branch of Butterfly Conservation
• Eggs, Larvae, Pupae and Adult Butterflies and Moths - photographs of UK lepidoptera
• UK Butterflies
• UKmoths

• Bob Atkins Photography - lots of Canon EOS system information and reviews
• Digital Camera Resource Page - reviews
• dpreview.com - reviews, forum etc
• EOS Magazine - magazine for Canon EOS owners
• fredmiranda.com - Photographic equipment reviews
• NUJ Freelance Fees Guide
• SLRGear.com - reviews

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