by William Eric McFadden
revision 20230428-1042
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Aviation & Space Exploration by William Eric McFadden revision 20230428-1042 |
Table of Contents
Read my disclaimer.
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"To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home." — anonymous |
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"Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly." — Chinese fortune cookie |
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"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties." — Douglas Adams |
Airshows (return to top)
June 2-4, 2017: Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's World War II Weekend (Reading, PA)
June 1-3, 2018: Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's World War II Weekend (Reading, PA)
June 7-9, 2019: Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's World War II Weekend (Reading, PA)
June 5-7, 2020: Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's World War II Weekend (Reading, PA)
Aviation Museums (return to top)
Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover, Delaware
EAA AirVenture Museum in OshKosh (and B-17 Aluminum Overcast, on tour)
Historical Aircraft Squadron, Lancaster, Ohio — sponsors of the annual "Wings of Victory Airshow" in August
Tri-State Warbird Museum, home of B-25J Axis Nightmare & P-51D Cincinnati Miss, Clermont County (Ohio) Airport
Ohio Valley Wing, Commemorative Air Force with OY-2 Carin' Belle, Bolton Field
Champaign Aviation Museum, Urbana, Ohio
Liberty Aviation Museum, home of B-25J Georgie's Gal, Port Clinton, Ohio
MAPS Air Museum, Akron-Canton Airport
Golden Age Air Museum, Bethel, PA
Aviation History and Aircraft Photography by John A. Weeks III
Code One magazine
The Vintage Aviation Echo on-line magazine.
Alert 5 Military Aviation e-zine
David Clark — aviation headsets
Alpha Industries, makers of the Authentic USAF MA-1 flight jacket
U.S. Cavalry
Ace Jackets
U.S. Wings
Flying Tiger Surplus
Flight Line Design
IMS-PLUS Military Surplus
History Preservation Associates, retailer of high-quality jackets, uniforms, and watches
Historic Aviation
Thomas Name Tages — custom flightsuit nametags
William & Williams — custom flightsuit nametags and patches
Aircraft Records — "Only the Fumes are Missing"
Jerri B's Victory Girl — "World's Foremost Source of Original Aviation Nose Art"
Airships (return to top)
Miscellaneous (aviation) (return to top)
145th Air Refueling Squadron — A Proud Heritage of Flight, a video by the 121st ARW
VintageFlying.com — cross-county in a Cub
The Gathering of Mustangs & Legends 2007 & P51 Store; source for the book Legends in the Air
Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson's P-51 Mustang "Old Crow"; Anderson is the author of To Fly and Fight.
Marshall Stelzriede's Wartime Story, the Experiences of a B-17 Navigator During World War II
Buy the B-17 Flying Legend DVD at Flight Line Design
Buy the Bush Pilots of Alaska DVD at StrangeBirds.com
The B-25 History Project — "To preserve and honor the history of the B-25 Mitchell bomber and the men and women who built, flew, and maintain them; past, present and future"
MaxAir2Air — aviation photography by Max Haynes
WarbirdImages.com — aviation photography by Moose Peterson
Joe Olivia Aviation Photography — "civilian artist in residence" for the Wisconsin ANG
Bernard Zee Photography, with warbird galleries
Jansma Design — photos and 360° cockpit tours (and way-cool not-listed B-52 cockpit)
United States Tanker by Boeing
Charlie Bauer Aviation / WePushTin.com, with monthly pin-up calendar (not well viewed in IE)
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"Man must rise above the Earth — to the top of the atmosphere and beyond — for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." — Socrates |
Space Travel: Civilian Programs (return to top)
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Look again at that dot.
That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every
human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident
religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and
destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child,
inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader,"
every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The Planetary Society — "Empowering the world's citizens to advance space science and exploration"
The Ansari X Prize
Google Lunar X Prize
Virgin Galactic — "Spaceline for Earth"
Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites & Tier One Private Manned Space Program
Article: Richard Branson and Burt Rutan Form Spacecraft Building Company at Space.com
Elon Musk's SpaceX (and Wikipedia article)
Planet Labs — "Using space to help life on Earth" (and CEO William Marshall TED talk)
NanoRacks — "The Operating System of Space"
Surrey Satellite Technology LTD (SSTL)
Mars One — "The Next Giant Leap for Mankind"
Alyssa Carson: NASA Blueberry — "In 20 years I'll be on Mars... I am the Mars Generation" (and TEDx talk)
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From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams:
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Apollo in Real Time — the whole missions of Apollo 11, 13, and 17 presented in real time
at NASA
NASA Television
NASA ISS Livestream on YouTube
Insight Mission to Mars
International Space Station (ISS):
Project Mercury (1959-1963):
NASA History Program Office: Project Mercury Drawings and Technical Diagrams
Kennedy Space Center: Mercury
Project Gemini (1962-1966):
NASA History Program Office: Project Gemini Drawings and Technical Diagrams
Kennedy Space Center: Gemini
On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini by Barton C. Hacker and James M. Grimwood
Apollo Program (1961-1972):
NASA: Apollo Lunar Surface Journal — archived audio
NASA History Program Office: Project Apollo Drawings and Technical Diagrams
Kennedy Space Center: Apollo
Smithsonian Air & Space: Apollo
Apollo Project Library — "The Most Epic Journey in History"
Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every Console Explained
Hack the Moon — "With a fraction of today's technology, engineers found a way to guide us to the Moon and back. Here's how they did it."
USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Project (1963-1969):
National Reconnaisance Office: The DORIAN Files Revealed: A Compendium of the NRO's Manned Orbiting Laboratory Documents (PDF; 232-pages)
Wikipedia: Manned Orbiting Laboratory
National Museum of the US Air Force: Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Encyclopedia Astronica: MOL
Kennedy Space Center: Spacesuits Open Doors to MOL History
The Space Review: All Along the Watchtower
Deepcold - Secrets of the Cold War in Space 1959-1969: USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Defense Media Network: Air Force MOL Astronauts Would Have Conducted Surveillance and Scientific Research
The Moon Pages: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (PDF)
False Steps - The Space Race As It Might Have Been: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory - A USAF Space Station
Aerospace: Our History — In Their Own Words: Dr. Ivan Getting
Aerospace: Our History — In Their Own Words: Joseph Wambolt
Titan III / MOL artwork
PBS Nova: Astrospies: streaming video & astronaut profiles
Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine: A Sudden Loss of Altitude
Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine: The MOL-Men Come into the Light
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975):
NASA History Program Office: Apollo-Soyuz Technical Drawings and Technical Diagrams
Kennedy Space Center: The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Skylab (1973-1979):
NASA History Program Office: Skylab Drawings and Technical Diagrams
Kennedy Space Center: Skylab
Museums (space) (return to top)
US Manned Spacecraft History and Photography by John A. Weeks III
Space Science (return to top)
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As one heart we yearn |
The SETI Institute
Breakthrough Initiatives — a program of scientific and technological exploration, probing the big questions of life in the Universe
Is There Anybody Out There? The Past, Present, and Future of SETI by Jason Davis at The Planetary Society
SETI@home
Green Bank Observatory
The Big Ear Radio Observatory
No Place Like Home — blogs by Nadia Drake
Planetary Society: Blogs
Neil deGrasse Tyson's Star Talk Radio
Deep Astronomy
The Space Race — "Dedicated to the exploration of outer space and humans' mission to explore the universe"
Amy Shira Teitel, spaceflight historian, author, YouTuber, speaker, host:
Frasier Cain
Miscellaneous (space) (return to top)
Wanderers — a short film by Erik Wernquist, with narration by Carl Sagan
The Full Moon Atlas at Lunar Republic
US Naval Observatory
This is a collection of links that I have found useful or interesting, either professionally or personally. It is maintained for my own use, and is subject to change at any time. No claims are made to completeness, accuracy, or competence. No endorsement of any site, individual, product, or corporation is intended. With these caveats, anyone is welcome to browse these links or to use this page.
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