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Aircraft Types

• BAC 1-11
• Boeing 747SP Website
• 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
• Thunder and Lightnings - post-WWII British military aircraft
• Vickers Viscount Network

Airfields

• 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
• Great Oakley - a delightful airfield to visit
• Heathrow & Gatwick Airport Movements
• PB-Photos.com - excellent airfield maps including viewing/photography locations
• Spotter Guide - airfield viewing and photography info
• 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
• Control Towers - UK airfields of WWII
• Milfield, not just an airfield

Airshows

• 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
• Flyer - magazine, excellent forum
• Irv Lee's Homepage - excellent information on the FAQ page
• LAA - Light Aircraft Association (formerly the PFA)
• Pilot Magazine
• SkyVector - online aeronautical charts
• UK Military AIP

Meteorology

• BBC - UK and worldwide weather
• LightningMaps.org
• Met Office homepage - including aviation service (TAF, METAR, F214/F215 etc)
• METAR-TAF - METARs and TAFs
• metcheck - detailed weather forecasts and reports
• NETWEATHER - Weather radar
• Meteox - European rainfall radar

Miscellaneous

• ADS-B Exchange - live ADS-B traffic plots
• adsb.fi - live ADS-B traffic plots
• AvWeb - Aviation webzine
• British Caledonian - A Tribute
• flightdiary - Log of passenger flights, with map and statistics
• FlightGlobal - Aerospace industry news
• flightradar24.com - live ADS-B traffic plots
• Flightstats - airport timetables etc
• Low in the Lakes - military low flying in the Lake District (LFA17)
• MACHLOOP - military low flying in mid and north Wales
• 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 Radar Pages - British Air Defence Radar from Chain Home to the present day
• The Royal Air Force

Photography

• 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
• jetphotos.net - online gallery of civil and military photos uploaded by contributors
• Unusual Aviation Pictures

Pilot Supplies

• AFE
• Flightstore
• Mendelssohn Pilot Supplies
• Pooley's Flight Equipment
• Transair

Preservation

• Aerial Visuals - details of preserved and vintage aircraft
• Arizona Aerospace Foundation - Pima Air & Space Museum, Arizona, US
• Aviation Museum - information on aviation museums all around the world
• Bomber Command Museum of Canada
• Demobbed - out of service British military aircraft
• Jet Age Museum Online - Gloucestershire Airport (Staverton), UK
• Midland Air Museum - Coventry, UK
• Nationaal Militair Museum - National military museum of the Netherlands, Soesterberg
• Newark Air Museum - Newark, UK

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
• 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

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
• G-INFO Database Search - CAA UK register
• 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
• N-Number Inquiry - FAA
• Plane Logger - free lookup of registrations and serials
• 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)
• Spotting Mode - wrecks and relics section is particularly good
• UK Serials Resource Centre

Audio

• AudioFile-incar - recommended supplier
• the12volt.com - car alarm, car stereo, and cruise control info for Installers

Miscellaneous

• ASKMID - motor insurance database query
• Aston Martin Lagonda Limited
• Auto Trader Interactive - buy and sell used cars
• Car Care Specialities - good how-to articles
• Carfolio.com - Comprehensive car specifications database
• CBRD - British road directory
• Draper Tools Home Page
• DVLA Vehicle Checker - check if a car is taxed and has an MOT
• Footman James - classic vehicle insurance
• Honest John - reviews of new and used cars, recall information, road tests etc
• Nissan Skyline - information and photos
• NPOC - Nissan Primera Owners Club
• OBD-II Trouble Code List
• The Good Garage Scheme - find a good independent garage
• The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM Roadsmart)
• Tire size calculator - useful when upgrading wheels and tyres
• Toyota Owners Club - UK based forum for Toyota owners
• tyretest.com - comprehensive collection of tyre test reports

Motorsport

• Autosport - UK's premier motorsport magazine with excellent online news
• FORIX: Formula One Results & Information eXplorer
• Formula 1 news from the BBC
• IndyCar Series
• Motorsport Network - news
• wrc.com - World Rally Championship

Parts

• 1st Choice Group
• 24/7 Spares - UK used car parts locators
• Auto Japanese Spares - new parts, second hand parts, and newly manufactured parts (e.g. drop links)
• Black Circles - Supply and mobile fitting of tyres in the UK
• Blue Print - pattern parts for Japanese and Korean vehicles
• Brakes International - online brake parts at low cost
• BuyPartsBy - online car parts at low cost with expert advice
• etyres - mobile tyre supplier/fitter
• Kwik Fit mobile tyre fitting
• MotorsportWorld - car tuning parts
• Speeding.co.uk - detailing and accessories
• Toyota Direct Parts - mail order from a Toyota dealer

Toyota MR2

• 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
• Club 4AG - information on the 4A-G engine series
• Fensport - performance Toyota parts
• 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
• 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

• Financial Times market data
• Hargreaves Lansdown - portfolio management, share dealing 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
• TopCashback - cashback on purchases from multiple retailers
• VoucherCodes.co.uk - searchable listing of online discount codes

DIY

• Diy Fix It - DIY guides, information etc
• helpwithdiy.com
• UK Whitegoods - information on fixing white goods, including a forum

Miscellaneous

• TrustMark - Government scheme for finding reputable builders, electricians etc
• Which? Trusted Traders - trusted recommendations for various categories of supplier

IT

Client Software

• 7-Zip - open source comprehensive file archiver
• FastStone Image Viewer - excellent freeware image viewer
• GIMP - open source comprehensive image editor
• HWMonitor - free hardware monitor for clock speeds, fan speeds etc.
• Exact Audio Copy - freeware CD ripper
• Exif Pilot - freeware EXIF editor
• IrfanView - excellent freeware image viewer, editor and batch editor
• KeePass password safe - open source standalone password safe (as opposed to a browser extension)
• Photopea - advanced image editor that runs in a browser
• Paint.NET - freeware image and photo editor
• Rufus - freeware bootable USB drive creator
• USBDeview - freeware management of USB devices connected to a PC
• VLC Media Player - the best media player, open source
• Vuescan - excellent scanning software, with support for older and unsupported scanners
• WinDirStat - freeware disk usage analyser
• WinDV - freeware utility for capturing video from digital camcorders
• WinSCP - open source SCP and SFTP client

Development

• ASCII Table
• Color Scheme Designer
• CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) - Perl modules
• Git branching model
• London Perl Mongers - Perl user group in London
• Notepad++ - my favourite Windows text editor
• 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) - a Windows text editor I used many years ago
• pixabay - free stock photos, vectors and art illustrations
• 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
• Welcome to Web Developer Magazine Online

Internet

• KLOTH.NET - useful utilities such as dig and whois
• thinkbroadband - UK's largest independent broadband information site
• Which? broadband speed checker
• WHOIS lookup from DomainTools

Miscellaneous

• Daniweb - IT discussion community
• FOLDOC - Free OnLine Directory Of Computing
• Font Freak - Free true type fonts and dingbats for both PC and Mac
• PC Pro magazine
• The Register - IT news

Suppliers

• cartridgesave.co.uk - low cost printer consumables
• cex - mainly second hand hardware and software, buy as well as sell
• CPC - hardware and software, as well as electronic components, gadgets, DIY etc
• Morgan Computers - surplus systems
• Palicomp - UK PC builder
• PC Specialist - UK PC builder
• Saturn Computers - surplus systems and components

System Administration

• A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform
• Apache HTTP Server Project - the famed Apache webserver
• MariaDB - open source database
• OpenSSL Cookbook - a short guide to the most frequently used OpenSSL features and commands
• Rocky Linux - my favoured RHEL derived Linux distro
• SS64.com - command line reference for Windows, Linux etc.
• SIW (System Information for Windows) - freeware software that gathers detailed system information
• The TCP/IP Guide - excellent in-depth reference
• Ubuntu - Excellent Linux distro
• VirusTotal - Online malware checker
• Windows Sysinternals - advanced Windows system utilities

Vintage

• Acorn Electron World - massive Electron resource
• BeebEm - my favourite BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator
• Centre for Computing History - Cambridge, UK
• EightyOne - my favourite ZX81 emulator (also emulates various other Sinclair and similar computers)
• 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
• The National Museum of Computing - located at Bletchley Park
• vb81 - ZX81 emulator written in VB6
• 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
• challinor.com - information on the Challinor name and its various spellings
• 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
• Historic England photographic archive - photographs of listed buildings in England in the early 2000s
• Loughton Astronomical Society
• Map Images - old maps for the whole of Great Britain, from the National Library of Scotland
• Minidisc Community Portal
• Office for National Statistics - UK government body responsible for statistics
• Pork Scratching World - dedicated to the best snack in the World!
• Recent earthquakes around the British Isles - by the British Geological Survey
• Smokestack Lightnin' - Internet blues radio
• 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
• UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration - forum, covering other vintage electronic devices too
• Vet UK - low cost veterinary supplies
• Wikipedia - free encyclopaedia
• WolframAlpha - answer engine, particularly useful for solving equations, plotting etc.

• 10X50.com sound files - bird song
• Avisoft Bioacoustics - bird song
• Bat Conservation Trust
• Birdforum.net - lots of bird information including bird song
• 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
• Butterfly Conservation
• Butterfly Conservation Garden Butterfly Survey
• 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
• Cotswold CamerasUK importer
• dpreview.com - reviews, forum etc
• EOS Magazine - magazine for Canon EOS owners
• Flickr - my site
• NUJ Freelance Fees Guide
• Wex Photo VideoUK supplier

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