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.

Recently, 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: The Tuskegee Airmen

These brave African-American pilots were fighting two wars, one against the military forces of the enemy overseas and at home and abroad against racism from their own countrymen. The determined young men enlisted to help the war effort; many believed they lacked the intelligence and skill to succeed. Trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field (TAAF) in Tuskegee (AL) they did succeed. The group boasts not losing a single bomber to enemy fire in more than 200 combat missions as air escorts - an achievement unmatched by any other fighter group.

FMI: http://tuskegeeairmen.org