About Aerospaceweb.org
Site Description:
Aerospaceweb.org traces its roots to 1997 when the core of what has since
become The Aircraft Museum was
first created. As this collection of information grew and was joined by new articles on aerospace design, a
group of engineers from the aviation and space industries came together in 2000 to form
Aerospaceweb.org. Since that time, the site has continued to improve
while encompassing a wide variety of subjects related to the aerospace field. We plan to continue that development
process in the future by enhancing existing sections and adding new features covering missiles and rockets,
aircraft and spacecraft design, helicopters, and aviation history.
Aerospaceweb.org is a non-profit site, and information on this site may be
used for non-commercial purposes only. For more information, please review the
copyright and frequently asked questions.
Contact us if you need further assistance.
Site Contributors:
Our staff currently consists of nine engineers and scientists working in the aerospace field. Read more about
each of our contributors and what we do in our biographies.
Frequently Asked Questions:
- Do you offer jobs?
All of the people who work on this site are volunteers, and we do not offer any full-time positions.
However, we do often seek out additional volunteers to work on various features of
Aerospaceweb.org, particularly the
Ask a Rocket Scientist section.
- Can I have or purchase a picture on your site?
All of the images on Aerospaceweb.org are believed to be public
domain and may be downloaded for personal use. We do prohibit the use of photos for any commercial purpose
since many of the images have been made available to us by the original copyright holders, and only they
can grant such permission. If you do wish to use a photo in a for-profit venture, please
contact us so that we may refer you to the proper source.
- Can I purchase a hardcopy, print, or poster of a picture on your site?
We do not manufacture or sell prints or posters of any kind. Many of the images on our site are official
US military or NASA photos that can be purchased from the respective organizations. Some posters are
also available for sale from affiliates in the
Aerospaceweb.org Store.
Another suggestion is to search for the type of aircraft you want on a popular search engine. Examples
include "Boeing 747 print" or "F-15 poster."
- Can you send me books, magazines, or other publications on topic X?
We do not publish any print documents ourselves. All the material we have to offer is what is available on
this site. We do recommend certain reference materials and other items in the
Aerospaceweb.org Store.
These items are available for sale through our affiliates.
- If you are a non-profit site, then why do you sell products through your
Store?
There are many overhead and support expenses associated with running a web site, and we have sought out
means of generating revenue to offset these costs. To that end, we have partnered with various affiliates
offering products we feel are of interest to our visitors, and we earn a small commission on all sales.
Any excess profits are donated to charity.
- Why does your site have advertisements?
In order to generate additional revenue to pay the costs of operating the site, we also subscribe to Google
Ads. The advertisements generated by this system are tailored to the content of the site and are generally
very applicable to the interests of our visitors. Commissions generated by these ads help make this site
possible, and any excess profits are donated to charity.
- What charities do you donate to?
When our annual income exceeds the operational costs of our site, we donate the excess to at least one
charitable organization or cause. The specific group that we donate to is usually selected through a
majority vote of the site staff members. We may also take a poll of our visitors to obtain their input.
The organizations we have donated to in the past are listed below.
- I'm looking for a model of aircraft X? Do you sell these or can you help me find one?
We do not manufacture or sell plastic, wooden, or paper models of aircraft or any other vehicles. A good
method to locate models is search for the type of aircraft and scale you want on a search engine. An
example is "1/72 Northrop B-2." This method often brings up models for sale through web-based stores.
- I'd like to submit updated information or new pictures to your site. What is your email
address?
To minimize the amount of junk email we receive, we prefer not to post our email addresses. However, we do
offer a contact form that visitors may use to send us comments, suggestions, or
information to help us improve Aerospaceweb.org. If you'd like
to submit photos or other files, please use this form to tell us about what you have to offer, and we will
reply with further instructions.
- Why don't you add aircraft X to
The Aircraft Museum?
Though we would dearly love to have every aircraft ever built in
The Aircraft Museum, there simply isn't enough time to
make all the additions we'd like to. For the time being, we have emphasized updating the entries that
already exist and adding new planes as time allows. In addition to time constraints, the primary
limitations we face are the amount of space on our server and the monthly bandwidth limit imposed by our
service provider.
- I submitted a question to the Ask a Rocket Scientist section but never
received a response. Should I ask again?
We try our hardest to answer as many questions as possible, but we lack the time, resources, and expertise
to get to them all. Submitting the same question repeatedly will not improve your chances of receiving a
response but will most likely have the opposite effect. Also, please be sure to use our
site search engine to research the subject of your question and determine if it
has already been answered. At least 20% of the questions we receive are repeats of topics that we've
already addressed.
- Can I interview you for a school career project?
We are so overwhelmed with requests to be interviewed for career projects that we have been forced to turn
them down. Instead, we have posted answers to a number of questions in the
Ask a Rocket Scientist Career Question Archive.
- I tried posting a picture from your site on another site or newsgroup. Why doesn't it work?
There have been cases when an image on our site was accessed hundreds of thousands of times from a single
page or newsgroup causing us to exceed our bandwidth limit and have our site shut down. To prevent this
problem, we have been forced to block access to images from certain external domains. If you wish to use
an image on Aerospaceweb.org, please download it and post it on
your own server or web account.
- How many people visit your site?
Our traffic has grown steadily since the site was first created. By late 2007, we routinely averaged
around 4,500 visitors, 10,000 page views, and 250,000 hits per day. We have also seen large spikes in
traffic whenever a major event occurs in the aerospace world. The following table lists some of the
busiest days in the history of Aerospaceweb.org.
| Date |
Hits |
Pg Views |
Visitors |
Bandwidth |
Related Event |
| 21 September 2006 |
452,800 |
20,600 |
7,600 |
5.9 GB |
Aerospaceweb.org featured in news articles |
| 26 September 2005 |
402,400 |
18,800 |
6,200 |
3.9 GB |
JetBlue Flight 292 emergency landing |
| 8 August 2006 |
354,800 |
19,300 |
6,800 |
4.1 GB |
Aerospaceweb.org featured in news articles |
| 17 May 2006 |
322,400 |
19,540 |
7,900 |
6.1 GB |
Aerospaceweb.org featured in news articles |
| 18 January 2005 |
292,000 |
18,400 |
9,400 |
2.6 GB |
Rollout of the A380 |
| 27 April 2005 |
283,400 |
15,800 |
7,400 |
3.1 GB |
First flight of the A380 |
| 12 November 2001 |
159,400 |
37,000 |
5,500 |
2.2 GB |
American Airlines Flight 587 crash |
- I received unsolicited spam email from you. Please remove me from your mailing list.
Aerospaceweb.org does not send unsolicited commercial email (UCE),
also known as "spam" or "junk mail," of any kind. Any such mailings that appear to originate from this
site are fraudulent, a fact that can be verified by carefully reviewing the full header information of any
suspect emails.
