Funding Season - Hosting Cost Donations Drive

Well it's that time of year we look at hosting costs and how to cover them. As volunteers who host the site at our cost and offer all the information, reserch, new features and user support, our only ask is that if you have found the site helpful, that you consider donating once or even annually. We want to keep developing new features, and, some new ones are almost ready to announce (announced now, see our maps).

We've also created an affiliate account with Amazon that you can use to purchase books, and, we've highlighted several interesting Spitfire related books on our Support Us page. Click over to Amazon to purchase a book (any book), or make a donation, or do both!

Our site is well used globally, and, we enable research by digging deep into the military records, including the ORBs. Users who add pilot data such as aircraft flown help us relate pilots to aircraft flown, and in turn to other pilots who flew the same aircraft in the same squadron (or later).

Now, we've come up with a very interesting set of maps that show squadron movement, with animations. What discoveries will that feature enable?

We will unveil that shortly, but as volunteers and administrators of this site -- we are here for your requests, and, provide development and support. There are no fees paid for development - we are the developers. We use the laravel software framework to create relationships and queries between the different data sets. On that note, should you have a custom project in mind, that's another way to support us, we'd be happy to build a history/military site using data you point us to.

Your input matters. We've enabled photo uploads, WIKI updates, comments, and, various forms for adding unit and log book entry data, things like aircraft serials flown.

And we want to take this further, because we've collected a lot of data over the past 10 years, we're in a position to keep enabling pilot and aircraft discoveries, that many of you have made.

If you have helped us in some way, either by adding pilot data, by donating, or just enjoying this site and picking up a book from Amazon to go along with your interest, then, thanks! We look forward to many more discoveries, and, animating the history of the WWII era Spitfire pilots from various allied nations.

Kurt