ABOUT
HelicopterLinks.com main purpose is to provide an easy-to-navigate website linking you to helicopter (OEM) manufacturers, piston helicopters, (as well as gyros, kit helicopters, VTOL, air cars, and other miscellaneous flying machines), helicopter trade shows, helicopter air shows, helicopter magazines, helicopter museums, and helicopter organizations. In addition, there is a limited helicopter glossary, a limited helicopter quote section and some non-helicopter topic pages.

Each web page—with helicopter links—on this site are listed by continent and the continents and their respective links are typically listed in alphabetical order—on one page. The flat web design of this site makes it easy to see the entire helicopter topic—worldwide—with one click and scroll of the mouse. This makes finding helicopter information, fast. The flat web design also makes it difficult to get lost on this site. This site does not force you to view the non-helicopter topic pages.

Each link is hand checked on a regular basis and we actively search (hopefully with your help) for new helicopter sites and helicopter events worldwide. Thank you to all the people in December 2007 and January of 2008 who emailed me with helicopter links.

Why another browser window opens when you click on a link and why this feature was designed into this site:
The links will open (or should open) in a new window. Then, when you switch back to the HelicopterLinks.com browser and click on another link, the next link will (well, it should) open in the second browser where the first link opened. This is how it works when using the Firefox browser.

You will (in theory) have only a maximum of two browsers open when surfing from this site. Sometimes you'll need to close a stray browser window. This site was designed this way, so it would be easy for you to surf as many helicopter sites as possible and not lose track of this one.

How to navigate this site:
Click on the helicopter topic(s) in the dark blue column on the left to find their respective pages of information. Each topic is listed by continent, worldwide and on one page. Some pages of this site have multiple topics.

If you'd like to link www.helicopterlinks.com to your site, please see information about this on the Contact page.

If your favorite (or obvious) helicopter organization is not listed, this is why:
Most of the information on HelicopterLinks.com is taken from each helicopter manufacturer's (or helicopter organization's) website. If HelicopterLinks.com is incomplete then we might not be able to find the site or we can't easily find certain information when looking at a specific helicopter organization's site. Yes, even today, some very reputable organizations have trailer trash websites! Imagine that.

We rarely receive incoming emails suggesting a site. So, if you know of an obvious (or not so obvious) helicopter site, please take a minute and send it along, we'd appreciate it and I'm sure others will appreciate it, also. We will update our site as quickly as possible with corrections and new sites.

staff@helicopterlinks.com (copy and paste from here)
staff@helicopterlinks.com (or click here to start your email)

Even more information about HelicopterLinks.com:
HelicopterLinks.com goal is to list all helicopter manufacturers, certain helicopter organizations and certain helicopter events for each respective topic, to be complete. However, not all helicopter manufacturers, organizations or events are easily found of the web and therefore we do not claim to have a complete listing of links for each helicopter topic listed.

There are obviously other helicopter websites with more links than ours, in terms of the shear number of links. With that said, we have not found any sites that have as a complete listing of links for each respective topic that we list on our site.

HelicopterLinks.com main focus is on piloted helicopter links. There is some cross over linking to tiltrotor, VTOL, gyroplanes and other flying machines; however, we do do not link to unmanned air vehicles (UAVs).

Here is even more rambling about the technical features of HelicopterLinks.com:

Ability of site to be translated into any language:
HelicopterLinks.com is a text based site. This means the entire site can be translated into many languages using virtual translation sites, such as the Babelfish link listed at the bottom of every page of this site. When other sites use pictures for links or information, then it becomes tedious to translate a site into another language. Remember, it's the world wide web.

Flat site design:
HelicopterLinks.com flat site design makes it easy for the user to navigate and makes it very unlikely that the user will get lost. When other websites force an internet user to drill down into several layers of a site to find information (or usually to find lack of information), it not only frustrates the user, it wastes time, makes it easy to get lost and is also poor web design.

Web Best Practices:
Some Web Best Practices as seen on this site include: Focusing on easy-to-use navigation for the user, appropriate and up-to-date information, no "under construction" pages, making no wild claims, and using web technology which will least likely break down on the majority of computers being used today. The technology of HelicoptersLinks.com is XHTML, CSS (using global style sheets), Alt & Title tags, and custom error pages.

Disclaimer
This website is subject to change at anytime. This is a privately run helicopter appreciation site. We are as objective and nonpartisan as possible on this site.

We are not liable for any perceived harm to any organization or company due to our lack of information, arrangement of links, broken links, links which direct you incorrectly to somewhere else on the web and/or accidentally misrepresent one organization for another organization.

If we shorten a company name it is only due to space requirements. If we have a bad link it is only a "typo" (a typing mistake) and not intentional. In addition, we have seen websites go off-line from several days to several months and then magically reappear. We sometimes leave links on this site for several weeks (or months) in case an organization is having technical difficulties.

Any other misinformation is a "typo" or an editing mistake and we will make corrections as quickly as possible when mistakes are brought to our attention.

Send us an email:
Please feel free to email us with any corrections or additions. Very few people send suggestions. If you are frustrated that a link is *not* on here, then why not take a second and send an email informing us of an obvious or obscure website that you know about. Thanks.

We accept emails from anyone in an effort to keep this site current. We will try to accommodate all link requests and will link as many helicopter related organizations and events to this site. We also make no blanket promises that we will add your link to this site.

staff@helicopterlinks.com (copy and paste from here)
staff@helicopterlinks.com (or click here to start your email)

End of disclaimer.

Link Order of this site
The order of links is subject to change and is determined solely by HelicopterLinks.com. The typical order of links on the HelicopterLinks.com website are listed below; however, there are always exceptions to any rule.
1) By continent
2) By alphabetical order.

Updated: March 19, 2008 - If you know of a helicopter trade show, air show, organization, helicopter manufacturer, etc., that we would be appropriate for this site, please feel free to email us the link. We'd appreciate it.