General Aviation Sites Demo Teams Air Shows Videos Miscellaneous
Planes are cool! Here are some cool websites:
Yes, I have spent way too many hours here looking at planes and aiports…and loved it!
Track a flight. Check out traffic at any airport. Check out the misery map. Spy on the activity of a tail number if you know it.
Very similar to FlightAware (above), but they’re not identical. I like both.
Another live flight tracking website
Wow, I can listen to live air traffic control pretty much anywhere!
Get a 360 degree view of an Airbus A-380 cockpit.
Do you know the phonetic alphabet?
Free Online Private Pilot Ground School
General Aviation websites
Military Demonstration team sites
U.S. Navy Blue Angels
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds
Air Shows
Reno – Stihl National Championship Air Races and Air Show
Oshkosh – AirVenture
Some of my favorite aviation videos
Approach to Schafer Meadows, Montana
Miscellaneous
Have you ever heard of “Skunkworks” (or “Skunk Works”)? As the Wikipedia article says, the term is also “widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, with the task of working on advanced or secret projects”.
How Do Runways Get Their Numbers? by Jake Hardiman at Simple Flying
Tomcat Tales – a two hour video presentation from interviews of real Tomcat drivers (I was able to watch this through my Roku)