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"In February of 2011 this site celebrated its 15th birthday.
  Work on XPlanes has been exponential, an awful lot at the beginning and not a huge amount recently.
  Beware, therefore, that some information may be a little out of date.
  The pictures, however, are timeless and I hope you find something here to make your visit worthwhile.
  A lot of my pictures are scanned-in photos, pre-digital cameras, and my hope for this year is to re-scan many in better quality, and take some new ones digitally too."

The X-planes
X-1 to X-45
by Jay Miller

X-15 Diary
The Story of America's First Space Ship
by Tregaskis & Scott

American X and Y Planes
by Kev Darling

Contents:
Data Sheets	Pictures and facts on many aircraft used by the RAF.
Galleries	Pictures of RAF aircraft Present and Past, Helicopters, aircraft Foreign to these (UK) shores, old monochrome shots, and Guest pictures. Note the 2008 Gallery, freshly taken, higher quality. And the 2009 Gallery, featuring GR4s at Lossie & Nimrods at Kinloss. And the 2010 Gallery, featuring Nimrods & Typhoons at RAF Kinloss, and lots of RAF Valley Hawks, including the new T2. Yes, you guessed, 2011 Gallery, featuring Tornado GR4s at RAF Lossiemouth.
Air-to-air	Some fantastic air to air pictures of BAe Hawks, mostly over Snowdonia and Anglesey.
Contacts "Reuniting old friends."	Hoping to make contact with old friends in the RAF? See if you recognise a name on the list, and get in touch. Add a new entry of your own, free. (New - email addresses now hidden to avoid spam)
Spruce Goose	The story of Howard Hughes famous gigantic aircraft. It's now over 60 years since the Goose flew... New Pictures!
V Bombers	Profiles of the Valiant, Vulcan and Victor.
X Planes	Pictures and facts about the X Plane program.
Corgi Diecasts	New - I've started collecting Corgi Aircraft models, concentrating initially on BAe Hawks, see my collection here.
Articles	Several great articles, reprinted with permission, from the RAF Yearbook and Air Forces Monthly. New - Next Generation Hawk (T2) article from the 2010 Yearbook.
RAF Valley	Where to go and what to see at RAF Valley on Anglesey.
BAe Hawks	Colourful pictures of many Hawks.
SAR Helicopters	The famous yellow Search and Rescue choppers of RAF Valley, SARTU.
Noticeboard	See what reunions and events are imminent.
Aviation Links	Links to sites on a similar military aircraft theme.
Cool Links	Other interesting places to visit.
Aerospace News	See what's going on in the world of Aviation today.
Space News	Similarly, the latest news from space.
E-mail	E-mail XPlanes, tell me what you think of the site.
Site Search	Does what it says on the box.
Air Accidents	An article by Irwin Mitchell on Air Accident claims