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: Koolhoven Aeroplanes Foundation

May 10 1940, the invasion of The Netherlands. German bombers took off to cripple the Dutch airfields. At the airport Waalhaven of Rotterdam, the N.V. Koolhoven Aeroplanes was their first target. The factory was laid in ashes. Airplanes, drawings, documents, photographs... all were lost. Today, Frederick Koolhoven (pronounced: "Coalhoven") and his designs have almost been forgotten, but in its days, with 1200 employees and a well filled order-book, his factory was certainly as important as rival Fokker's.

FMI: www.koolhoven.com/