
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.
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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.
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