General RFC History
Vimy and the Battle of Arras: The Evolution of the Air Campaign
One Hundred Years of Air Power and Aviation
RAF Museum leaflet on data sources
Air Power Review on RFC (high ranking stuff, but look at plan for RFC and roles of officers and other ranks)
Air Power Review - engineering, and achieving aviation superiority
RN Fleet Air Arm Museum - WW1 - Perceptions of War - general views pro and anti the war, home front, propaganda posters, poets' perspective, interview with WW1 veteran
Spartacus Educational - Air War in WW1 - air forces, leaders, pilots, planes, technology etc
RAF Organisation - for size at end of RFC
Imperial War Museum RFC photos
Cross & Cockade - WW1 aero history
Over the Front - WW1 aero history links
The Aerodrome - WW1 flying history site and forum
WW1 Document Archive - documents & images from WW1
Faked Photos of WWI Aerial Combat That Really Had People Fooled
Photo of observation balloon on fire - click on image to bring up other WW1 pics
Wikipedia Ballon buster - shooting down observation balloons
RAF Museum Timeline of British Military Aviation - Flash based, edit URL to change year
British Library - WW1 Themes
Europeana 1914-18 collection of photos, video, text, ...
Oxford Uni WW1 poetry, images and more...
Sound of Flight WW1 simulator game
Tribute to the Fallen: The Evolution of Canadian Battlefield Burials during the First World War Jeremy P. Garrett Phd thesis
The technology of air power during the great war; A. Gilam
European Powers in the First World War
Pilot Education: The Beginnings; Tim Brady
Developing Deadly Skies; John Maker
A Return to Camelot?: British Identity, The Masculine Ideal, and the Romanticization of the Royal Flying Corps Image; Abby S. Whitlock
The Auxiliary Air Force –How typical were the two elite London squadrons in relation to the wider organisation?; Wilkinson, Louise
Observers and Navigators: And Other Non-Pilot Aircrew in the RFC, RNAS and RAF; Wg Cdr C.G. Jefford Also on Abebooks and Amazon
Look into Commonwealth War Graves Commission?
Museums
Shuttleworth - collection of WW1 planes, research library, photos
Army Flying Museum - Middle Wallop
Fleet Air Arm museum, Yeovil
Imperial War Museum
Books
Barker, Ralph; The Royal Flying Corps in France: From Mons to the Somme
Bowman, Martin W.; Lost wings of WW1: Downed Airmen on the Western Front, 1914-18
Breverton, Terry; Breverton's First World War Curiosities
Coetzee, M & F; Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War
Hamilton-Paterson; Marked for Death
Hyde, Andrew; The First Blitz
Jones, Ira; King of Air Fighters; The biography of Major "Mick" Mannock
Lee, Arthur Gould; No Parachute
Levine, J., 2008. On a Wing and a Prayer
Lewis, Cecil Arthur; Sagittarius Rising
Mackersey, Ian; No Empty Chairs
Shores, Christopher; British and Empire Aces of World War 1
Jefford, Wg Cdr C.G.; Observers and Navigators: And Other Non-Pilot Aircrew in the RFC, RNAS and RAF
Films
Flight Commander (1930)
The Dawn Patrol (1938?)
Aces Falling; BBC1 Timewatch
Hell's Angel
Cavalry of the Clouds
Simulators
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