Aerospace engineers and
aviation enthusiasts can view some of the world's greatest aircraft and
helicopters on-line. The Virtual Aircraft Museum is a fun, fact-filled
web site run by Maksim Starostin of Estonia. Although I haven't explored
every nook and cranny, I'm quite impressed so far. The aircraft are arranged by
country of origin, and the planes are a level down. Each aircraft has three
views, photos, specifications, dates, and other important facts. In addition,
the company history is available for many of these historic aircraft.
Helicopter engineers
and enthusiasts can also take a tour of a virtual museum on the Web. All the World's Helicopters, another Maksim Starostin website, contains a robust
helicopter directory. Here, you can learn about more than 300
U.S. helicopters, as well as
early helicopter designs and flying machines from Russia and the former Soviet
Union.
Editor's Note: CR4
would like to thank Ron Darner for
sharing this story. A longtime CR4er, Ron is also the newsletter editor for
Chapter 320 (Watertown,
Wisconsin) of the Experimental
Aircraft Organization (EAA). If you'd like to subscribe to Ron's newsletter, click here to send him a private message on CR4.
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