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Aviation Fanatic is a free, non-commercial, ad-free website dedicated to aviation enthusiasts.
Aviation Fanatic is created and maintained by Bálint Tóth. I am interested both in programming and aviation, so this website is where my two hobbies meet. I am a PPL pilot with very modest (~200 hours) flying experience.
As far as I know, all data provided at Aviation Fanatic is publicly available for free.
The following resources proved to be quite helpful:
Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
DBpedia
Aircraft manufacturer companies' own websites
Aircraft registers from civil aviation authorities' websites and www.aeroreg.co.uk
Aviation Book Database at AeroFlight.co.uk
Airport database at OurAirports.com
Aircraft type pictures at doc8643.com
ICAO, FAA and GAMA websites
Hungary-related data at www.hungaryairport.hu and www.avia-info.hu
Publicly available air museum and aeroclub listings at various websites
Some commercial aviation books were consulted in a limited way to cross-check and extend publicly available data.
The following books are recommended for further data:
Aviation Factfiles series
Jane's All The World's Aircraft
Aviation Fanatic is developed using HTML5, CSS, PHP and MySQL, while SQL bulk data converter was written in Excel VBA. It is my very first attempt at programming a dynamic website. Programming is purely a hobby activity for me.
The following resources proved to be quite helpful:
Software:
XAMPP for Windows
MySQL Workbench CE
Programmers's Notepad
Websites:
www.php.net
dev.mysql.com
application icons were taken from famfamfam.com
Books:
Head First PHP and MySQL [O'Reilly, 2009]
Head First HTML with CSS XHTML [O'Reilly, 2006]
PHP Cookbook [O'Reilly, 2002]
PHP and MySQL For Dummies, 3rd Edition [2006]
Excel 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies [2007]