In most of our episodes the hosts list aviation related products that could help you in various aspects of aviation. Below is a master list of all of our picks by category.
Events
- Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Flight Experiences: A national tour of classic planes going around the country this year.
- Sun N Fun International Fly-In & Expo: plan your Sun n Fun Adventure and get all the details on tickets, daily events, including the air shows, exhibitors and more.
- Florida International Air Show
General Products
- IVATION Universal Tripod Stand Mount Holder: a mini tripod that is especially good for large phones
- Iridium Go Satellite based wi-fi hotspot for planes, boats, or anytime you are out of cell phone range and need connectivity (weather reports, directions, etc.)
- Dynon Avionics Video to the Cockpit
- Renova: The sexiest paper on earth
- Mutt Muffs protecting hearing of the important members in your family
- Sonex Aircraft AeroVee Turbo engine
- My Go Flight Aviation products
- Apple Watch
- Sub Sonex Jet: Build your own airplane!
- Tru Trak AutoPilot: Install autopilot in virtually any plane
- Oregon Aero Shock Blockers: Great insoles for walking
- Airplane Repo: A Discovery Channel reality show about airplane repossession
- Boeing’s Black Smartphone
- SPOT Gen. 3 Satellite Messenger: Update your location and allow colleagues or family know where you are when traveling out of cell phone range
- Revere Comfort Max Inflatable Life Vests
- Pocket Monkey multitool
- Quiet Technologies Halo Headset
- Garmin D2 Bravo Pilot Watch
- Honda Jet
- The ResQLink PLB
- iPro Aviator iPad Kneeboard
- Satellite Phones
- AOPA ID Wallet with Ramp Pass Insert
- Mophie Juicepack Helium
- Aircraft Intercom/ATC Audio Recording Cable for iPhone
- Scheyden Sunglasses
- Boost Oxygen portable O2 canister
- Sportys First Solo Trophy
- Mophie Juice Packs
- Fat Gecko Co-Pilot Camera Mount
- Free Aircraft Valuation Service provided by Aviation Insurance Resources
- PilotEdge.net – a real-life ATC service for your favorite flight simulator
- Single Pilot Resource Management
- Northern Companion portable aircraft engine preheater
- V1 Aviation Clothing Line at AirspeedJunkie.com
- OnTip Smartphone Gloves
- SPOT Connect Bluetooth satellite transmitter
- The Cleat suction cup camera mount
- AviationJewelry.com
- Abingdon Aviatrix Watches
- Icon A5 Light Sport Aircraft
- Clarity Aloft Aviation Headset
- Brightline Flight Bags
- Hand E Holder Universal Tablet holder
- NFlightCam+
- iPad Air 2
- Aircraft Audio Patch Cable
- DIY ADS-B Receiver
- Map Shirts Etsy Store, which prints maps on shirts. You can pick from their selection or they do custom orders, so you could get your hometown on a shirt!
- Garmin 796-portable touchscreen GPS for weather, approach plates, and other general aviation features
- UAS/UAV Insurance Flying drones still can incur liability, this is how you protect yourself.
- Icon Aircraft Videos Page
- Milwaukee Tools Heated Jacket
- Lularoe Airplane Leggings Very popular leggings for women, some of which now have aviation related prints.
- PilotMall A great place to get all kinds of aviation related gear.
- Scheyden Precision Eyewear, Watches, and Flight Crew Luggage A great site for buying high quality aviator sunglasses, watches, and flight crew approved luggage
- TouchTrainer Flight Simulator A smaller, but still very good flight sim
- Island Life HGTV Episode with TavernAero In Florida Keys
- Airplane dresses on Amazon!
- Chart it All, a clothing company started by a young man saving for college, which provides all kids of clothing with your local sectional chart.
- Air-Pros.com A great aviation insurance company.
- Fore Flight Scout for ABS weather and traffic – An affordable, pocket-sized dual-band ADS-B receiver for inflight weather and traffic on ForeFlight.
- X-Naut iPad fans keep your iPad from overheating when using flight apps.
- Aeroplane T-Shirts and Hats Great apparel for aviators including Sun N Fun T-Shirts.
- Radial engine cutaway wall hanging. Really cool inside look at radial engine cylinders in action.
- Aviation Careers Podcast Online Class Bundle We have a bundle of courses, including Advanced Holding Patterns, Flying IFR Safely in the Summer, and Thunderstorm Hazards and Avoidance.
- IAT Insurance Group – new carrier available through AIR for hard to insure aircraft
- Hasselblad camera, 10 bit video: https://store.dji.com/product/mavic-2
- Tabitha Fink Pirate Plushie
- balloon insurance www.air-pros.com/lta
- Cirus Approach Learning Catalog
Books and Publications
- “Shoot Like a Girl”, by National Guard Major Mary Jennings Hegar
- “Into the Black” – Book about the very first Space Shuttle launch and landing
- Without Precedent: Commando, Fighter Pilot and the true story of Australia’s first Purple Heart
- Fly Girl by Sheri L. Smith: a Young Adult book about a girl torn between her heritage and wanting to fly as part of the WASPS
- FAA Safety Briefing Magazine: which is a great resource for pilots. It is available for free as e-pub or Kindle, or in print for a low fee
- The Day I Learned to Fly: a children’s book by Victoria’s friend Jeff Kennon
- Blue Grass Airport: An American Aviation Story
- The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin: historical fiction about the wife of Charles Lindbergh
- Flight of Passage audio book by Rinker Buck, recounting a flight from New Jersey to Southern California
- Air Crashes and Miracle Landings
- Fate is the Hunter
- Advanced Guide to Holding Patterns
- The Pilots Guide To Flying On A Budget by Brent Owens
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullogh
- Tony Janus: An American Flyer
- Aviation Safety Reporting System CALLBACK Newsletter
- Check out the Smithsonian Channel’s “Aerial America”
- Sole Survivor documentary
- Top Gun Blu-Ray
- Practical Guide to Winter Flying
- AOPA Cold Weather Webinar
- Cold Weather Operations Checklist
- World’s Shortest Commercial Flight
- Flying Doctor Stories
- Chris Findley’s book You Can Be a Pilot
- book: Jungle Pilot and accompanying movie: End of the Spear
- Red Tails the Movie
- A Drive In The Clouds – The Story of the Aerocar
- Flying Cars: The Extraordinary History of Cars Designed for Tomorrow’s World
- Aloft: Thoughts on the Experience of Flight book
- Pappy Boyington Field
- The Aviatrix Aerogram
- The Pilots’ Guide to the Airports of Historic Massachusetts
- Solo Flight, by Owen Zupp
- The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual: Or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It by Rick Durden
- Fly Girls – The Forgotten Fliers Of WWII – TV Mini Series
- Red Says : Up Up And Away : My Life and How I Flew It
- Tabitha Fink: The Cat With One Eye
- Article from FAA called Fly Safe, Prevent Accidents and Loss of Control
- Weather Flying by Robert N. Buck, a great and current book about weather and aviation.
- Flyers and Why they Fly– an out of print coffee table book that captures the love of aviation.
- Everything Explained for the Professional Pilot– A book that explains flight rules and regulations without confusing jargon.
- FDOT Airport Directory. You can get a spiral bound copy with all Florida airports including military.
- Google Books – Flying Magazine Archives A great resource for free flying articles and information.
- Tabitha Fink On A Mission To Mars Rick’s second kids book about a cat going to Mars and is geared for first to third graders.
- Weather for Dummies: A DVD set teaching about weather and how it effects Aviation.
- Advanced Guide To Holding Patterns Book: Comprehensive source on holding patters.
- Owen Zupp’s author page on Amazon: Here you will find all the books by our good friend Owen Zupp.
- Sully the Movie and Sully the Book: The story of Captain C.B. “Sully” Sullenberger and the Miracle on the Hudson.
- book – 81 Days Below Zero: The amazing story of a WWII pilot’s survival after crashing in Alaska.
- Living in the Age of Airplanes: A National Geographic documentary about the amazing but brief history of Aviation.
- Flight of Passage Movie. Flight Of Passage In Amazon
- Third Class Medical Reform | What It Means For You!
- “The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight”
- Stick and Rudder / Wolfgang Langewiesche
- Blood Pressure Refresher – Rules for flying with high blood pressure
- The Savvy Flight Instructor: Secrets of the Successful CFI, 2nd edition
- The Cannibal Queen by Stephen Coonts A book about a trip in a Steerman making almost 2 laps of the country in 1991.
- Dreams of Flight book
- Rick’s Tabitha Fink books
- The Day I Learned To Fly
- FAA Glider Flying Handbook: One of the definitive texts on learning to fly gliders.
- AerospaceScholarships.com for all your aerospace scholarship needs!
- Those Incomparable Bonanzas A great book about Bonanza airplanes.
- 101 Things To Do With Your Private Pilot’s License Picks up where flight training ends as it discusses mastering advanced navigation systems and handling all types of weather.
- Flight of Passage: A Memoir Writer Rinker Buck looks back to a summer when he and his brother became the youngest duo to fly across America.
- Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller’s Gunsight View of Flying with SOG, a book from a forward gunner’s perspective in Vietnam.
- Flight Chops the Zen of the Super Cub
- Aloha 360 Podcast
- Hallmark Christmas movies with Airplanes –
- Christmas Under Wraps – https://youtu.be/QpcpZ_AHy8M
- Return to Christmas Creek – https://youtu.be/okFP2N_iKXI
- NIFA Region IX SAFECON inspirational video
- Living In The Age Of Airplanes: An NPR documentary about the history of flight.
- Flying Colorado Mountain Weather: A sentimental, art quality book about flying in Colorado.
- Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am by Robert Gandt: A historical look at why one of the largest airlines eventually failed.
- “Fighting the Flying Circus” by Eddie Rickenbacker (autobiography)
- “Inside the Sky – A Meditation on Flight,” William Langeweische
- Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
- Fly8MA Episode on Spatial Disorientation
Games
- F18 Carrier Landing Lite: a free iOS game
- X-Plane 10 for iOS: a great free flight simulator for iOS
- Airplane Mt. Everest Flying Game for iOS and Android
- Fsim Space Shuttle Simulator: iOS and Android glider game
- Air Wings: an aviation game based on point of view flight of a paper airplane
- Flight Unlimited Las Vegas: A flight simulator for iOS featuring console quality graphics
- Infinite Flight: mobile phone flight simulator
- ATC-SIM: a web-based air traffic control simulator
- Sky Gamblers Storm Raiders iOS flight combat app
- Storm Raiders iOS game
- Download ATC Voice game for iPad
- Breitling Reno Air Race iOS game
- Infinite Flight iOS App
- Announcing Microsoft Flight, the reincarnation of Microsoft Flight Simulator with a twist
- Unmatched Air Traffic Control It’s a pretty good ATC app, but there are some drawbacks.
- Alliance Air War iOS game: An air combat game based upon the original Alliance game. iTunes Link.
Apps
- Avare: an offline navigational app that allows you to draw on the screen in GPS mode
- Overcast: a great app for listening to podcasts on iOS. The app has some great features such as cutting out dead space to save time, and is free with limits or can be unlocked for $4.99
- MPING (Meteorological Phenomenon Information Near the Ground), a free app that lets you report on weather phenomenon near the ground, where radar cannot detect. The app is available for iOS, Android
- Log Ten Pro for Mac & iOS: Digital log book for flight tracking, syncs with iCloud
- Hyperlapse for video capture with your phone: It’s claim to fame is using image stabilization in a phone app. The app is currently only available for iOS
- Skyguide for iOS: An app for identifying the stars in your view of the sky
- Helios iOS app: sun position calculator
- Waze: a crowd sourcing traffic app to help you be on time, including for getting to the airport!
- AvPlanEFB: Flight plan software for iOS
- Social Flight: A free app and website showcasing thousands of events and destinations for pilots
- Dark Sky iOS app: Weather Radar, Hyperlocal Forecasts, and Storm Alerts
- Sportys Checklist App (iOS): Safety checklist app for pilots
- Flightradar24 iOS App: Track specific flights, see all flights flying over a particular area, point your phone at a plane in the sky to identify the flight and iformation
- Cirrus ProFlite: A weight and balance app for pilots
- SkewTLogPro: Instant Access To Skew-T Log(P) Charts On Your iPhone and iPad
- ForeFlight Mobile 5.5.1 update: ADS-B radar
- NORAD Tracks Santa iOS app
- AvPlan EFB on The Apple Watch
- Pilot Partner Logbook
- Perfect Weather iPhone App
- PlaneFinder AR iPhone App
- NOTAMS iPhone App
- myRadar iOS app
- Seasonality Core – Mac App, Seasonality Go – iOS App
- Windscape iOS App
- RadarScope iOS App
- Aviation W&B iOS App
- FAR/AIM iOS App
- CloudAhoy iOS app
- iFlightPlanner Premium Business Account
- Aviation Weather from NOAA/NWS for iPhone & iPad
- MyRadar iOS App for iPhone & iPad
- Hi-Def Radar iOS App for iPhone & iPad
- AirWX Menulet Mac app – a scrolling weather app for the Mac header bar
- Zinio Digital Newsstand on iOS for aviation magazines
- iFlightPlanner for iPad: A FREE flight planning app
- DanKam Colorblindness iPhone App
- iPhone App – Hot Air
- AeroWeather iPhone App
- AirNav.com iPhone App
- LiveATC Air Radio
- My Personal Weather Station-A new iOS app that Rick created himself! It allows you to check weather data from very close to where you are located, with lots of other features.
- Ferrite Recording Studio, for editing audio on iOS!
- Jacobson Flare App, which addresses the flair portion of the landing procedure.
- Garmin Pilot– A comprehensive suite of Android navigation apps designed for GA and corporate pilots
- Flightintel app for Android or iOS: wind and weather information for 50 miles around you.
- Density Altitude Calculator: Accurately calculate the current Density Altitude using Elevation, Pressure, Temperature, and Dew Point.
- fltplan go app: another flight tracking app to take your logbook digital.
- GoDirect Flight Preview
- Cloud Topper app
- Weather Line App: A simple weather app that shows weather in quick graphs
- deep weather ios app – Very detailed weather app from NOAA
- Fltplango integrated flight planning software
- RadarScope iOS/Android app An app for weather enthusiasts and meteorologists
- Absolute RC simulator – Learn to fly RC without fear
- “Density Altitude +” iOS app App allowing you to find your altitude…anywhere.
- FltPlanGo App: A digital flight planning and logbook that is free. It’s great as a starting point if you are just getting started.
- Carrot Weather: A snarky weather app for smartphones, which includes augmented reality.
- Cloud Topper pilot sight level
Websites
- Graphical Forecast for Aviation: a website for weather forecasts from the Aviation Weather Center
- Aircraft Breakdown Assistance
- FAA’s IFP Inventory Summary: Instrument Flight Procedures Inventory Summary
- FAA Wildlife Strike Database: a website for logging birdstrikes and learning all kinds of things by exploring the data
- The Art of Aircraft: a website with great aviation related pictures including planes, posters, and very realistic renderings
- Videos from Expert Aviator
- Bold Method: a great site with all kinds of information on flight instruction
- General Aviation News: for all kinds of news related to aviation, be it general or airlines
- 1800wxbrief.com: a great site for filing a flight plan and plotting your route
- Paul Job Photography: an aerial photographer taking great aerial, airplane photography
- FAA Safety Briefing Twitter account is a great resource and has a lot of interaction among pilots sharing information
- Skyfunder.com: Flexible, worldwide crowd funding for aviation and aerospace projects
- Pilot Get – a – Ways: A wonderful site for adventure travel for aviators
- AOPA Flight Risk Evaluator: ASI online risk course evaluation tool, which includes weather data
- Ask a CFI: blog for posting questions and sharing information on aviation
- Aviation Careers Podcast has a new webinar up on “Should You Choose a Career in Aviation?“
- Bring Fido: Web site to find pet friendly places to stay when you are flying to your next $100 hamburger!
- First Air Force One: The story of the first plane to be called Air Force One, which is the only plane to use that call sign and not be preserved in a museum or other other collection
- Aviation: The Invisible Highway: This is a new movie coming out next year about flying and what it means to so many people
- Gyronimo.com: weight, balance, and performance planning done graphically
- Victoria is going to be a published author! She is having a children’s book published about Turbo the Flying Dog Check Turbo out on Facebook Instagram and Twitter
- Aviationstatistics.org: for learning about General Aviation accidents and how to learn from them
- The Finer Points podcast
- Forecost.io: A great site for getting your local weather information
- Aviation Careers Podcast.com: Carl Valeri’s other website, with constantly updated information about Aviation careers, how to get into them, and the scholarships available to pay for them
- Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: This is their link to upcoming events worldwide
- Learn To Turn YouTube video: A video for learning how to turn an airplane
- King Schools CFI Refresher Course: Renew your CFI completely online
- AirportWebcams.net: View LIVE airport webcams by country, timezone, type of airport, camera speed and more.
- AOPA Air Safety Institute’s Flight Risk Evaluator
- First Aerobatic Flight with Lea
- ChartBundle.com for e-reader instrument approach plates
- 23 Awesome Travel Hacks
- PilotsTubeHD Channel on YouTube
- Aviation Forecast Discussion
- AviationUniverse.us – check out Len’s interview with the owners: Episode 51a
- Aviation Week
- Forecast Weather Maps website
- OpenAirplane-Rent planes online
- JustPlanes.com & Just Planes YouTube
- Airfare America
- JetCareers.com
- NYCAviation.com
- Astronaut Col Pam Melroy
- Brent Owens iFlyBlog.com
- Max Trescott’s website
- Hint.fm Wind Map
- UND Aerospace Podcast
- Pilots Share the Ride
- Girls With Wings Scholarships – a list of available aviation scholarships for women and how to apply
- LiveATC.net: Live Air Traffic from Their Headsets to You.
- FAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems information website.
- Back Country Pilot Forum and website
- French Countryside Flying in a Super Cub, videos and photos included
- TJ Shembekar YouTube Videos
- Gene Benson Aviation
- US Wings Pilot Shop
- Tailwinds Pilot Shop
- Training video: The Practical Guide to Winter Flying
- The Airplane Shop
- AeroNews Roadable Aircraft news coverage
- PowderPuffPilot.com for Feminine Flyers
- Website: Inner Art of Airmanship by Dave English
- JetWhine.com Blog: Aviation Buzz and Bold Opinion by Robert Mark
- World’s Scariest Runways
- Right Seat Flying blog by Ron Klutts
- Abandoned & Little Known Airfields
- What Just Flew By blog
- Flight Aware
- PlaneCrashInfo.com
- NTSB Accident Database
- DunkYou Water Egress Training
- Women in Aviation International Flight Scholarships
- AirNav.com
- Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Test videos
- USairnet.com – forward looking weather planning
- The FAA released an INFO article on when you can log instrument approach procedures. It is a commonly misunderstood part of logging and staying instrument currency.
- AirportTag.com-A website that sells things like pillows, mugs etc. that have airport tags on them.
- NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System, which allows people to report on possibly unsafe conditions spotted around airports and sign up for their newsletter.
- Aviation Weather TAF Board-Experimental board reporting general conditions at airports.
- Global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
- NORAD Santa Tracker, celebrating 60 years in 2015
- Dan Johnson website, information on picking the right aircraft and has great videos for affordable aircraft.
- LearnTailwheel.com– A website for learning tail wheel flying by Paul Santopietro, a good friend of the show (you can check him out in episode 32A)
- rucsoundings.noaa.gov– A site to determine where the temperature and dew point are going to converge to discover cloud heights.
- FAA Instrument Flight Procedures Gateway-which lists charts and upcoming changes at all airports. You can also create an account to get updates to airports you use.
- Wind Map– a website that shows wind patterns to help you plan your flight
- Aircraft Wrecks in Arizona and the Southwest: A site dedicated to history of crashes complete with modern pictures.
- Video of an Extra300 doing maneuvers.
- Wind History: A great website to get detailed historical wind data for local airports. Averaged 2006-2010.
- MissHattan – Amazing photos from above
- FAA Weather Cams
- Brighton City Airport Webcam
- DROTAMS – Drone NOTAMS by SkyVector
- VOR Simulator – The VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range) Simulator was designed to demonstrate the approximate indication that a VOR would display with varying positions of an aircraft in relation to certain navigational facilities.
- Dreamliner Farnborough practice video – The beauty of Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner is on display again as is it practices for the 2016 Farnborough Airshow!
- Airbus response to Boeing 100 year anniversary.
- Landing a Cessna 172 at O’Hare.
- Her New Confidence To Fly Blog
- Great Aviation Quotes
- ASI interactive online courses Great free resources for anyone that needs a refresher or for learning new skills.
- Avidyne IFD440 Video Page Lots of video tutorials for using the 440.
- NASA web page and apps.
- Airplanista Aviation Blog
- Ground School Academy, a great website for preparing for reviews. Their guarantee is if you don’t pass your check ride, they will pay for it!
- Barnstorming: Youtube video with Smithsonian Air and Space
- Air Insurance: Provides insurance for aviators and their equipment
- Aviation Careers Podcast’s new learning platform Our new place for learning about lots of Aviation topics.
- Total Eclipse 2017
- Pilot Partner Overview
- BayNews 9 Weather. A great local news source to Carl’s area that even gives info for pilots.
- Operation Air Drop Facebook and Operation Air Drop Website. This group used airplanes to move needed supplies into Houston after Hurricane Harvey, and have turned to Florida to assist with relief after Hurricane Irma.
- Flight Chops: A weekly video podcast with great training insights and info on flight techniques
- AOPA Introduces Peter O. Knight Airport
- Super Wings A show for kids on Amazon Instant Video about talking airplanes.
- Nasa Live Nasa’s live streaming area for all kinds of current and historical videos including Space X rocket landings.
- Graphical Forecast for Aviation This replaced the textual area forecasts.
- AOPA Learn to Fly Initiative
- I Hart Flying Scholarship Opportunities A website with current scholarship opportunities, applications, and information about past scholarship recipients
- FAA’s “Letters to Airman” site – right side of screen Designed to assist pilots and aircrews for flight planning and familiarization
- KitPlanes May 2018 Lance Hooley on the Cover – The independent Voice for Homebuilt Aviation
- Commercial ACS – which apparently removes the requirement for a complex airplane for the checkride (but not the training)
- Ground Speed Records A fun site to report your ground speed records in any plane.
- Backcountry Pilot News and information about backcountry flying.
- Bryan Turner’s Youtube channel – Just Plane Silly
- Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) – 14 CFR 91.25
- Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields Where you can find information on vanished or abandoned airfields & their unusual histories.
- Stuck Mic AvCast YouTube Channel
- FAA Safety Briefing
- Bold Method A blog chock full of aviation information
- Null School website on weather patterns
- http://polkstateflightteam.com/: A new website for the Flight Team Carl coaches at Polk State
- Florida Aviation Directory http://www.fdot.gov/aviation/directory.shtm
- FAA Safety Maintenance Hangar / Toolbox –
https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/onlineresources.aspx?categoryId=96&masterId=2&n=amt - The Islands of the Bahamas: A great resource for GA flying in the Bahamas.
- Aviation Daily News: Satirical news related to aviation, similar to The Onion.
- FAASafety.gov Part 107 Course (small UAS): Certification for small UAS and drones.
- Drotams: Published Notams for Drone operators
- Cyndy Hollman YouTube channel
- Aviation 101 YouTube channel
- FAA Spatial Disorientation and Aerospace Medicine Reference Collection
- National Hurricane Center: Hurricane related weather information
Places
- River Fly-In Condominiums: Resort style community
- AOPA National Aviation Community Center: a special hanger for community events and education including classrooms and simulator located at the AOPA HQ in Frederick, MD
- Tomorrow’s Aviation Museum
- Aviation Summer Camps from Sun n’ Fun
- Balloon Launch At Sun N Fun
- Commemorative Air Force B-29 Fifi: While not really a place in herself, this link ties directly to Fifi’s tour schedule, as well as the Commemorative Air Forces’ B-24
- College Park Aviation Museum
- Kalamazoo Air Zoo
- Triple Tree Aerodrome in South Carolina, 7,000 turf runway, barbecues, fly-ins
- 57 Alpha Cafe, “The South’s Favorite Fly-In Eatery”
- Aviation Museum of Kentucky
- Maui Flight Academy
- Cub Air Flight School
- AirVenture Flightops
- Aircraft: The Jet As Art display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
- 100 Years of Southland Aviation History: Southern California’s transformative aviation upbringing
- NJ Festival of Ballooning
- Hot Air Balloon rides: Tailwinds Over Frederick
- High Altitude Chamber/Physiology Flight (only available at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, Oklahoma City, OK)
- Crooked Island Lodge, Bahamas
- National WASP WWII Museum-Dedicated to the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, the first women to fly American military aircraft
- National Museum Of The Mighty Eighth Airforce
- The Stafford Air and Space Museum at Weatherford Airport (OJA) near Oklahoma City, which has all kinds of aviation and space exhibits right off I-40.
- Sunset Pub and Grill at Lincoln Park airport– A great restaurant to eat at and watch planes take off and landLincoln Lincoln
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum: Carl’s first museum he joined, has one of the few P-61’s.
- Oklahoma Museum of Flying
- Arkansas Air & Military Museum
- Collings Foundation: Great museum in Massachusetts that also has classic cars.
- Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: In Virginia, has a space shuttle, SR-71, and more.
- National Museum Of The Unites Sates Air Force: Huge military flight museum, it also has a virtual tour on their site.
- Royal Air Force Museum London: The UK’s military air museum, where you can see the air history of military flight from the UK’s point of view.
- Deland Sport Aviation Village and Showcase November 3-5, 2016 is the air show/expo, but also a commercial village to promote the growth of Sport Aviation.
- Behind the Scenes – Step Inside the Museum of Flight. This video shows you how the museum is preserving their planes and helping people still experience them though digital technology.
- Waldo Wright’s Flying Service: preserving the beauty of open-cockpit biplane flying
- Elevate your mood by purchasing your tickets for SnF, OSH, etc. in advance. Just doing that and knowing you have your tickets makes the show seem so much sooner!
SnF – http://www.flysnf.org/sun-n-fun-intl-fly-in-expo/admission-rates/
OSH – https://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/eaa-airventure-tickets - Sunrise Aviation: an Aviation school located in Lakeland, Florida.
- Jones Brothers Co. Air and Seaplane Adventures: Offering sightseeing tours and seaplane ratings in Tavares and Mount Dora, Florida.
- Central Florida Aerospace Academy: a school right on the campus of Sun N Fun!
- Learn more about WWII Top Ace and Test Pilot Richard Bong AND the Bong Recreation Area
- Stafford Air Museum, Weatherford, OK. https://staffordmuseum.org
- Texas Air Museum, San Antonio, TX. https://www.texasairmuseum.org
- WWII Museum
- Stallion 51 Lee Lauderback and Crazy Horse
- That’s All Brother: A C-47 member of the Commemorative Air Force
Organizations
- National Intercollegiate Flying Association
- Polk State College Aviators Club Facebook Page
- The Bent Prop Project: a documentary about the search for various aircraft lost to the Pacific Ocean
- Polk State College is about to become the first state institution in Florida to offer a four-year degree in aviation
- Ageless Aviation Dreams: Giving back to those who served
- Bahamas Habitat
- Antarctica Flights: Flights that depart from Australia to give aerial tours of the Antarctic
- Vision of Flight: Creating the next generation of people passionate about aviation
- AOPA Regional Fly-ins: which is a great organization for pilots to get together, talk, and learn. This summer they are having some great fly-ins where you can fly in, meet other pilots, and have a great time
- B-29 Doc’s Friends: An organization restoring the B-29 known as Doc from World War II
- Colorado Pilots Association: which has tons of information on mountain flying, backcountry flying, etc.
- Teachers Workshop and Community Outreach at Sun N Fun
- AOPA “Let’s Go Flying” program, EAA Young Eagles program
- Find out more about insurance for planes within the OpenAirplane network through STARR Aviation
- The Canadian Aviation and Space Museum
- Tampa Bay Aviation Association
- Coconut Flyers Group
- Picture This Ballooning – hot air ballooning in Melbourne and the Yarra Valley, Australia
- Kentucky Institute of Aerospace Eduction
- Commemorative Air Force
- My First Solo
- AeroBility.com – Britain’s home for the disabled flying
- Flying Musicians
- Society of Air Race Historians
- FreedomsWings.org: Soaring For People With Disabilities
- FAA Wings Program The FAA’s safety program.
- PilotsNPaws.org Helping people transport pets, as well as adopt. Also a great place to find gifts such as their calendar.
- EAA IMC Clubs
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