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: Aircraft Wrecks in Arizona and the Southwest

With their ideal climate and sparsely populated land, Arizona and the southwestern states were used extensively to train Air Force and Navy pilots. The height of this training took place from World War II thru the 1960’s. With the many air bases training thousands of pilots came many mishaps. There were over 500 aircraft accidents in Arizona alone during WWII, and over another 600 by the end of the 1960’s. Fortunately, many of the crews were able to bail out and survive the crash, but tragically, there were many that did not. Over the last 18 years I have located more than 400 crash sites in the rugged deserts and mountains of the southwest. As an avid hiker and vintage military aviation historian, I enjoy hunting for old aircraft wrecks so I can preserve their history by photographing and documenting these historical aviation remnants of the past. I find that each crash site, as well as the pilots or crewmen I am fortunate to track down, has a unique and intriguing story.

FMI: http://www.aircraftarchaeology.com/