Aviation Links
Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association
Flight Training (and Flying in Santa Barbara)
Historic Aviation
Information for Pilots
Images and More

The 21st-century Cirrus SR20

Our Cirrus SR20

Classic aeronautical advertising from Desperate Enterprises

Airliners of America's classic Martin 4-0-4

A TWA Martin 2-0-2, from Airliner Pictures from the Past

Charles Lindbergh, depicted on a US Postal Service stamp

From Tim Dirks' "The Greatest Films"

The X-1 - the first supersonic airplane - in flight circa 1946, from NASA Dryden

The new-production Cessna 172

A wingtip vortex, subject of a NASA Langley research project

The US Navy's new F/A-18F Super Hornet (US Navy photo)
Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association
The Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) is a not-for-profit membership organization established to educate, promote the safety of and support the owners and pilots of certified aircraft manufactured by Cirrus Design Corporation. It also encourages ownership of these aircraft and provides social activities for its members. With over 700 members, COPA is the fastest-growing of all aircraft owners organizations. Its web forum averages more than 50 posts a day, on topics that cover the gamut of aircraft ownership and operation.
Learn about Cirrus Design, manufacturers of the most advanced single-engine piston aircraft available. "There are two kinds of people buying new single-engine piston aircraft: Cirrus buyers, and the uninformed." --- Walt Conley, purchaser of the first production Cirrus SR20
Visit The Flight Academy --- experts in training you to get the most out of your Cirrus aircraft.
Flight Training
(and Flying in Santa Barbara)
You, too, can learn to fly! Here's information provided by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, by The Ninety-Nines (the International Organization of Women Pilots), and by the Federal Aviation Administration. For even more about learning to fly, visit the Be A Pilot web site.
Learn about the Santa Barbara Flying Club --- the best way to fly in the Santa Barbara area. If you're a student pilot, we can help you learn to fly!
Find out all about flying in the Santa Barbara area, including useful information from the controllers' perspective, at the Santa Barbara Air Traffic Control home page.
Pay a visit to the Santa Ynez Airport, just over the mountains from Santa Barbara.
Historic Aviation
Airliners of America is an organization dedicated to the preservation of America's airline heritage. The nucleus of Airliners of America is a beautiful 1951 Martin 4-0-4 airliner, based at the Camarillo, California airport. It's a fun, grass-roots outfit that's actively looking for volunteers. Come join us!
Learn about the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) and its efforts to preserve the aviation heritage of World War II.
Aviation Legends produces beautiful photographic calendars depicting some of the most handsome antique aircraft flying in the world today. Their web site includes a collection of some of their finest photos.
Visit the Aviation History On-Line Museum.
Learn about the very first controlled flight of an airplane by the Wright Brothers on December 17, 1903.
Information for Pilots
"How Airplanes Fly" is a clear, accessible article that explains the real physics behind how wings produce lift. (The simple ideas you may remember from FAA flight training publications are, it turns out, quite wrong.) The authors are on the faculty at the University of Washington and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. This article is reprinted from the February 1999 issue of Sport Aviation, published by the Experimental Aircraft Association.
Attention pilots --- want to know how fast your airplane really flies? Use a Java-based True Airspeed Applet from REA Computing, plus a little flight testing, to find out for sure!
The One Hundred Dollar Hamburger web site has up-to-date information and reviews for airport restaurants all over North America. It also has reliable data on fuel prices at many airports.
Aeroplanner.com is an extensive site for all aspects of flight planning, including digital versions of sectional and IFR enroute charts.
Pilots --- for planning your next flight, try AirNav for airport information. If you're flying in Southern California, be sure to see what PilotAge has to offer. A popular fly-in destination for California pilots is the Harris Ranch.
A tremendous amount of aviation information is available at the following sites:
Search the database of all US-certificated pilots and US-registered airplanes. Other aviation databases are also available.
CyberAir Airpark has a number of unique features. For one, you can listen to live transmissions on the Chicago Approach Control frequency using RealAudio. You can also listen to Dallas-Fort Worth Air Traffic Control courtesy of CAE SimuFlite.
Visit the web site for the Seaplane Pilots Association.
Look at some interesting pilot supplies from SureCheck.
Get the latest information from the aircraft manufacturers:
Images and More
A number of wonderful still images and videos of experimental aircraft can be found at the web site for the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California.
View images of military aircraft from the following services:
You can find many other aviation links on Yahoo.

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