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: Royal Air Force Shawbury

Welcome to the Royal Air Force Shawbury website. Their mission is to provide the United Kingdom's Armed Forces with highly trained helicopter aircrew, air traffic controllers and flight operations personnel, and to prepare for deployment on operations anywhere in the world. The units that conduct this training are the Defence Helicopter Flying School, the Central Flying School (Helicopter) Squadron and the Central Air Traffic Control School. Providing much of the equipment and support is resident contractual partner FB Heliservices Ltd, who also store a large number of frontline aircraft on their behalf. In the course of a year around 1000 students of all disciplines are trained at RAF Shawbury.

FMI: www.raf.mod.uk/rafshawbury/