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: Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals

VISION STATEMENT: The vision of the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals is to commit to the realization of an aerospace industry in which all individuals have equal opportunities to expansive careers.

OBJECTIVES:

•    To motivate youth to become educationally prepared for life

•    To increase minority participation in aviation and aerospace through exposure, training, mentoring and scholarships

•    To increase the number of underrepresented minority professionals, engineers, scientists and management personnel in aviation and related industries

•    To better assist our organization, membership concerns and constituencies.

FMI: http://www.obap.org