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: AVSIG

Yes, after 260 dog years, AVSIG is onto Forum Platform 3.0. We mothballed our UBB-based place at the stroke of midnight on the first of the year, so if you’ve spent the past six months trying to reply to those threads about the return of LORAN or Mel Tillis and Charles Manson departing this world on the same day, give up: your situation is hopeless. You can still read all messages (2004-17) … just keep your UBB-era login handy for the member sections.  (New AVSIG Members will also be issued a login for our legacy forum, enabling full access to all SIG II threads, including the internet’s most amusing discussion about airplanes on treadmills).

FMI: http://www.aero-farm.com/