Aeronautics Links and Resources

Each of these sites has a little something to offer in the way of aeronautics history.   This is not all of the information available.   You may use this as a starting point.   Also, check out your local and school libraries. Don't forget to ask the older people around you what types of changes they have seen through the history of aeronautics!   Have fun with it!

Young Eagles
http://www.eaa.org/
The Experimental Aircraft Association runs a program Young Eagles which gives young people between the ages of 8 and 17 the chance to learn about and fly in a small airplane FREE.

National Geographic: History of Flight
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0312/feature1/online_extra1/
This web site accompanies the National Geographic supplement timeline provided in the December 2003 issue.   Maybe your library has this?   Contents include: zoomable pictures, information about Charles Lindbergh, predictions on the future of flight from 1953, and much more.  

History of Flight
http://www.flight100.org/history_intro.html
This is an excellent site with an interactive timeline and lots of information.   There is also an image gallery with a plethora of images to choose from.

Flight-history.com
http://www.flight-history.com/
This site contains a wide range of information.   There are polls to complete and view, images, information about flight museums, story archive, plane detail information, and aviation art.   The story archive really gives a good hands-on image of the transition of flight through history.

NASA-History of Flight
http://www.ueet.nasa.gov/StudentSite/historyofflight.html
NASA's own history of flight page-with lots of details and pictures for various years.  

Yahooligans: Airplanes and Flying
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/science_and_nature/machines/airplanes_and_flying/history_of_flight/
This site has links to many different web sites, all focused on the history of flight.   Great resource!

Aviation History On-Line Museum
http://www.aviation-history.com/
This is an on-line museum with many great pictures-especially the front page image, "first flight attempt to the north pole". Also contains links to other relevant pages.

Fantasy of Flight
http://www.fantasyofflight.com/

Innovative Engineers of Renaissance
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/news/mostra/6/index.html

NASA Celebrates ~ A Century of Powered Flight
http://www.aerospace.nasa.gov/edu/index.htm

NASA Spacelink - Celebrating Flight
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/celebratingflight/

Re-Living the Wright Way
http://wright.nasa.gov/

U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/index2.cfm