Best <insert subject> website

[Scott Rose]

Looking for recommendations for the "Best" website on a given subject, such as a specific warbird type, individual aircraft or other military history related sites.

[wendovertom]

I know this does not help, but, WIX is bookmarked and almost always where I go almost daily. . .

Tom P.

[Noha307]

I have actually been working on an aircraft equipment directory just like this. It's not finished yet, but here's a draft:

Avionics

• Arboga Elektronikhistoriska Förening: Avionik (Swedish)
• Rochester Avionic Archives
• Vintage Avionics

Cameras

• American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: A History of Military Mapping
• American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: Development of Aerial Camera Stabilization and Its Effect on Photogrammetry and Photo Interpretation
• Camera Wiki: Aerial Camera

Compasses

• Compassipedia: Aeronautical Compasses

Instruments

• AeroAntique
• Aircraft Gunsights
• Cockpit Clocks
• Deutsche Luftwaffe: Gerätekatalog 1
• Funatsu Aviation Instruments Museum

Ordnance

• World War Two – Air Dropped Ordnance

Propellers

• Not Plane Jane
• Wooden Propellers

Radios

• AAF Radio
• Airborne Radio Equipment Handbook

Sextants

• Celestial Navigation Aloft: Aeronautical Sextants in the US

[quemerford]

I love MAAM's P-61 restoration site:

http://www.maam.org/p61/p61_rest.htm

It's not updated that often (of necessity) but when it is, it really hits the spot! I only wish that other museums were able to dedicate time to documenting their restorations in such detail

[Michel Lemieux]

http://www.luft46.com/

Luft 46

Futuristic WW2 German Luftwaffe drawing board

[Dan K]

The Hawker Tempest Page

https://www.hawkertempest.se/index.php

[airnutz]

The Hawker Tempest Page

https://www.hawkertempest.se/index.php

Really a great site! Unfortunately the V-1 and Sabre sounds wouldn't work for me in the Multi-media section and only a couple of Sergio Pasquale's animations of the Sabre were working. Probably a temporary glitch. Plenty of superb info otherwise.

[Dan K]

The Hawker Tempest Page

https://www.hawkertempest.se/index.php

Really a great site! Unfortunately the V-1 and Sabre sounds wouldn't work for me in the Multi-media section...

Although I'm probably confusing examples, I THINK this youtube link is the same Napier Sabre recording that was posted at the Hawker Tempest Page (just over 3 minutes of "music").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo0Lv1S3RfQ

Whether the recording is actually Typhoon or Tempest, I'm not even sure erks in those days could tell the difference with eyes closed.

[airnutz]

Thanks Dan, that sounds like it. Tho it was purely audio, IIRC. The latter part of the takeoff and flyover were the notable tunes.

[Scott Rose]

http://www.luft46.com/

Luft 46

Futuristic WW2 German Luftwaffe drawing board

Always one of my favorite "What If" sites

[Xray]

Anyone into WW2 in the Philippines, this is the place.
These guys are incredible, crawling into caves and bunkers on Corregidor and exploring the very dangerous Ft Drum, the long dormant "Concrete Battleship".

Not a whole lot of new posts but a very rich archive of older posts [Ft Drum is no longer accessible, for instance]

https://corregidor.proboards.com/

[Dan K]

Stumbled across this recently:

https://norsemanhistory.ca/

Includes brief histories on every Noorduyn Norseman ever built...many include pics.

[Scott Rose]

What is the best site for the T-6 Texan and all the variants?