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These links serve two purposes. Firstly they give you lot a great set of links to choose from; and secondly they allow me to use my bookmarks from any computer on the net anywhere in the world!

Aviation | Cars | Financial | House | IT | Miscellaneous | Music | Natural History | Photography |

Aircraft Types

• B-52 Stratofortress Association
• BAC 1-11
• Boeing 747SP Website
• Dataview Publishing - e-books on specific types (currently A-10, F/A-18, AV-8B plus USAF)
• de Havilland Comet - de Havilland DH106 Comet
• de Havilland DH98 Mosquito
• English Electric Lightning - The Lightning Association Website
• English Electric (BAC) Lightning - Vertical Reality
• Exec-Jet Encyclopaedia
• F-16.net - extremely comprehensive coverage of the GD / Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon
• FlyTriStar - Lockheed L-1011 Information Center
• Helicopter History Site
• Historic Aircraft Index - various historic types
• Jet Provost Heaven
• Kev's MD11 site
• Military Aircraft - Aerospace Guide - mainly Russian aircraft
• Oldprops - information and photos
• T-28 Site by Norman Crocker - North American T-28 Trojan & Fennec
• The Aviation Zone, 'Home of the Heavies' - transports, tankers, gunships and other heavies
• The Comet Campaign - attempting to return Canopus to flight
• The English Electric Canberra - by Les Bywaters
• The Ex-FRADU Hunters Homepage and RNHF Airfield Website - historic Royal Navy and FRADU aircraft
• The Nanton Lancaster Society and Air Museum - Avro Lancaster
• The Trident Preservation Society - preserving G-AWZK plus plenty of Trident resources
• Thunder and Lightnings - post-WWII British military aircraft
• Vulcan To The Sky Club - supporting the return to flight of Avro Vulcon XH558
• Vulcan to the Sky - return to flight of Avro Vulcan XH558
• www.aviation.ru - Russian aircraft

Airfields

• Airfields of UK and Ireland - details of vantage points
• Alan's Aviation & Acars site - Stansted and North Weald
• Andrewsfield - where I fly from
• BAA - official website for Heathow, Gatwick, Stansted, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Southampton
• Birmingham Airport ATC - Interesting information on BHX and ATC in general
• Birmingham Airport Movements - Birmingham and Coventry
• Birmingham International Airport - official website
• Brian's Plane Page - Houston Intercontinental
• Brussels Airport Offical Website
• Catalogue of UK Airfields - by Bones
• Gatwick Aviation Society - timetables, info, photographs etc
• Gloucestershire Airport - news, photographs and information
• Graham's Stansted Pages - movements and timetables
• Great Oakley
• Heathrow & Gatwick Airport Movements
• HMS Daedalus - Lee on Solent
• Heathrow Pictures - not just pictures; also timetables and other information
• Kemble Airfield - official website
• London-Luton Airport - official website
• London City Airport - official website
• Luton Spotters
• Machester Airport - official website
• Military Airfield Charts
• National Air Traffic Services UK Aeronatical Information Service - AIP etc
• Plane Mad - airport guides, forum etc
• RAF Fairford Unofficial Website
• RAF Kinloss - Home - official website
• MILAIRMAN - RAF Lakenheath and 48FW USAF
• RAF Northolt
• RAF Waddington homepage
• Ringway Reports - movements, viewing info and other Manchester info
• Stansted Aviation Society
• Stansted (EGSS) BizJet Movements
• The Aviation Society - Manchester
• The Real Birmingham Airport Enthusiasts Page
• Wattisham Airfield
• 'november tango' - An Andy Hutchings Website - Newcastle plus reports from elsewhere

Airfield History

• 12 O'Clock High - The WWII airfields of the RAF and US 8th and 9th Air Forces as they are now
• Airfields and Aviation Memorials - many photos of airfields, memorials etc
• Airfield buildings of WWII - from ARG & Midland Counties
• Airfield Research Group (ARG) - Recording Britain's airfield heritage
• Childs Ercall - RNAS Hinstock/HMS Godwit
• closed - listing of closed airfields in the UK
• Control Towers - UK airfields of WWII
• Driffield aerodrome - RAF Driffield
• Haunted Airfields in Britain
• Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage
• Milfield, not just an airfield
• 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

• de Havilland Aviation Limited - keeping a Sea Vixen flying, fantastic!
• DeltaWeb Homepage - global airshow calendar, Red Arrows website and plenty of other aviation websites
• Royal International Air Tattoo - the world's largest military airshow
• Starfighters Airshow Demonstration Team - US display team flying F-104s
• UK Airshow Review - reviews, previews, message board etc

Flying

• 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 - avoiding airspace infringements and useful navigation information
• Flyer - magazine, excellent forum
• How to Fly Gliders and Pass FAA Tests - for glider pilots, but clearly much is relevant to powered flight
• Irv Lee's Homepage - excellent information on the FAQ page
• LAA - Light Aircraft Association (formerly the PFA)
• Pilot Magazine - magazine
• Pilot's Log - online logbook
• UK Military AIP
• ukga.com - flight planning, airfield reviews etc

Meteorology

• BBC - UK and worldwide weather
• Ipswich Weather Storm/Lightning Tracker - although based in Ipswich, covers most of the UK and nearby Europe
• Met Office homepage - including aviation service (TAF, METAR, F214/F215 etc)
• metcheck - detailed weather forecasts and reports
• Meteox - European rainfall radar
• USAFE OWS: The Theater Source for Weather Information - European weather forecasts, charts etc
• WX Support - worldwide METARs, TAFs etc

Miscellaneous

• Aeroseek - Aviation website search engine and directory
• Air-Scene UK - military and airshow webzine from Gary Parsons
• AvInfo Home Page - UK airports, ICAO and IATA airfield codes, and other information
• 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
• 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)
• Tactical Publications - UK low flying information (Lowdown)
• 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
• Canada Aviation Museum
• Gatwick Aviation Museum - classic British aircraft near Gatwick airport
• Jet Age Museum Online - formerly at Gloucestershire Airport (Staverton)
• Midland Air Museum - Coventry

Radio

• Air Radiouk - frequency listings
• AirBand-Online - retailer (check out the "memory lane" section)
• eHam.net - scanner reviews written by users
• Haydon Communications - retailer
• Javiation - scanner specialists
• Just Learn Morse Code - donationware tutor that I used to learn Morse code
• Martin Lynch & Sons - retailer
• Milscanners - frequency and callsign databases
• Nevada Radio - retailer
• Nick Locke's Reporting Points - all you wanted to know about FERIT and friends!
• RigReference.com - receiver model information, reviews and photos
• Strong Signals - receiver information, reviews etc
• The RigPix database - receiver information and photos
• The Guide's Internet Callsign List
• UK Aviation NavAids Gallery
• UK Aviation Waypoint Data - VORs, NDBs, airfields etc
• UKMidlandscanner - reviews, manuals etc
• Waters & Stanton PLC - 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
• Aircraft Registration Inquiry - FAA database searches
• Australian Military Aircraft Serials and Aircraft History
• 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 Homepage - US military serials
• LAAS International - monthly magazine plus online data including biz-jets and biz-props
• On Dutch Wings - databases etc
• Planespotters.net - production lists etc
• rzjets - aircraft, airlines and airports database
• Scramble - monthly magazine plus online data
• Tailnumbers - serial numbers, tailcodes etc
• 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

• Apex Corner - British road information
• ASKMID - motor insurance database query
• Aston Martin Lagonda Limited
• Auto Trader Interactive - buy and sell used cars
• bentwaters2804 - R34 Skyline GT-R on track
• Capitalcarcentre.com - recommended for MOT tests, welding, servicing etc
• Car and Deep Cycle Battery FAQ
• Car Care Specialities - good how-to articles
• Car insurance - compare over 50 leading car insurance companies
• 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
• 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
• Tool Use Techniques - from Dave Baker (Puma Race Engines)
• Tyres-Online - tyre information, including reviews
• tyretest.com - comprehensive collection of tyre test reports
• Trafficnet - live Trafficmaster display from Vauxhall

Motorsport

• Autosport - UK's premier motorsport magazine with excellent online news
• BookaTrack - favourite trackday organiser
• Champ Car World Series
• Easytrack - trackday organiser
• FORIX: Formula One Results & Information eXplorer
• IndyCar Series
• ITV F1 - excellent F1 news coverage
• 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

• Aqua Motorsport UK - new and used spares
• Auto Japanese Spares - new parts, second hand parts, and newly manufactured parts (e.g. drop links)
• AW11 FAQ
• 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
• Dave's MR2 Page - Mk1 and Mk2 articles
• 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
• Japanese MR2 Turbo FAQ - For UK owners of MR2 Turbos, by Ben Formesyn
• MR2 - Racing Strong - information including an online parts catalogue
• MR2 Mk1 Club - all things Mk1
• MR2 Only Magazine - magazine dedicated to all marks of the MR2
• mr2supercharger.com - specialising in the supercharged Mk1
• TB Development - MR2 parts
• TCB Performance Parts Ltd - second hand and new MR2, Celica and Supra parts
• The International MR2 Owners' Club (IMOC)
• The Michael Canny Toyota MR2 Project - information, photos etc
• The MR2 Drivers Club Ltd - UK based club
• Twos R Us - MR2 spares, performance parts, repairs, services, engine transplants and conversions
• Welcome to the Allan Welsh Useless Information Site - interesting Mk1 and Mk2 Turbo pages
• Welcome to Toyota Special Service Tools - US site for purchasing Toyota SSTs
• 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
• MoneySupermarket - comparisons of many financial products (e.g. credit cards, loans and mortgages)
• 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
• diymate.co.uk - DIY guides
• helpwithdiy.com
• UK Whitegoods - information on fixing white goods, including a forum
• www.doubleglazingsparesandrepairs.co.uk - suppliers of window handles, hinges etc

Miscellaneous

• Homeserve - managed property repairs with selected contractors that are regularly checked etc
• 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
• Common Gateway Interface - authoritative documentation
• Compact Index of HTML Tags
• CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) - Perl modules
• 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
• 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

• Netcraft - research, statistics and security
• Robin Walker's Cable Modem pages - including a useful speed test
• thinkbroadband - UK's largest independent broadband information site
• WHOIS lookups

Miscellaneous

• Daniweb - IT discussion community
• FOLDOC (Free OnLine Directory Of Computing terms)
• Font Freak - Free true type fonts and dingbats for both PC and Mac
• free-hotspot.com - search for free wi-fi hotspots world-wide
• PC Pro magazine

Software

• CentOS - Free Linux distro derived from RedHat Enterprise Linux
• 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
• Mailtraq - axlternative to Microsoft Exchange
• Neat Image - image noise reduction software
• Offline NT Password & Registry Editor - (re)set lost passwords (including administrator) for NT, 2k, XP, 2k3 and Vista
• OpenSSL PKCS#12 Usage
• Paint.NET - freeware image and photo editor
• 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 IT Pro - Windows FAQs
• Windows Sysinternals - advanced Windows system utilities
• winmail.dat decode

Suppliers

• aria pc - hardware and software
• 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
• SMC Computers - hardware and software
• Valuemedia - good prices for digital media and memory cards

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
• Oolite - a modern take on Elite
• The BBC Lives! - plenty of information about the BBC Micro family
• The DigiBarn Computer Museum
• Planet Sinclair - information on everything to do with Sinclair, not just the computers
• 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
• 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
• Goddard Veterinary Group - veterinary surgeries and hospitals in the London area
• Heavens-Above Main Page - artificial satellite visibility
• Images of England - photographs of listed buildings in England in the early 2000s
• Instruction Manuals UK - online instruction manuals
• 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
• Royal Mail postcode finder
• 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
• Welcome to AuroraWatch - aurora borealis real-time information
• Wikipedia - free encyclopaedia
• Woodford Historical Society - Woodford in the London Borough of Redbridge
• WW2 & Cold War History in Britain
• Yahoo Babel Fish - translator
• Yell.com - UK yellow pages

Miscellaneous

• Minidisc Community Portal
• Robin Trower Homepage - Albums You Gotta Own
• Smokestack Lightnin' - Internet blues radio

Stores

• 101cd.com
• BangCD
• CD-WOW!
• find-cd.co.uk - attempts to find the lowest price from a variety of stores
• Hancock & Monks Music Emporium - classical music
• HMV
• Play.com: DVDs, Music and Video Games
• TuneChecker.com - compare MP3 download prices

• 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
• 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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