Aero-Linx!

Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough, if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not that bad a gig. On any given day, we may check dozens (and often hundreds) of different sources for story ideas, and facts confirmation. And, as is the nature of our business, much of this is done on the Internet.

The ANN gang decided we probably shouldn't keep some of the neat sites, info resources, and organizations we've discovered to ourselves... so we decided to bring you Aero-Linx. These are the sites that WE check out -- when we need added perspective, a new spin on a day's topic... or just want to escape into cyber-aero-space for awhile.

Look for some of our favorite sites, coming each day to ANN via Aero-Linx. Suggestions for future Aero-Linx segments are always welcome, as well.

Aero-Linx: Bill Barnes, Air Adventurer

The aviation heroes of the pulp era were definitely a breed apart.  They lived, fought, and sometime died in the sky. Bill Barnes, Air Adventurer was dedicated to the romance of airplanes and slanted toward the model enthusiasts of the day, those industrious lads who built biplanes from scale blueprints and blocks of balsa wood. Because the magazine was designed to incite the imaginations of young modelers, every few years Bill built a new superplane to stay current with  advances in  aviation and keep the balsa and bamboo set happy. Fifty years later, the mere mention of the Barnes fleet can cause the eyes of older modelers to mist over.

FMI: http://home.att.net/~dannysoar4/BillBarnes.htm