Aviation Dimension General Aviation News, articles and airshow calendar

Welcome to Aviation Dimension. www.aviationdimension or AvDim, began as South African Aviation's first true on-line magazine, news and gallery resource. Today it is an international resource. The site is also known as www.avdim.com, www.avdim.co.za, www.aviation-dimension.com you choose. AvDim through Andrea Serra and Frans Dely, provides the public with a free aviation publication and image gallery handling both military and civilian aviation matters. The publication does not only handle a full magazine but also caters for news snippets, general articles and regular columns together with services such as aviation classifieds, classified submissions, forums, a pilot shop and general aviation shop, calendars, posters, museum updates and reviews, join the air force information, general recruitment, specific and general aviation links, a full aviation guide, services directory or for that matter an information directory which is a "yellow pages" of aviation type of production, web design services, web redesign services, advertising and advert creation, graphic services, digital video productions, curriculum vitae posting and evaluation, test flight analysis of general aircraft, flight training, school coverage, a what's new section, a general newsletter section, an aviation business letter section, statistics of web media, marketing of aviation products, presentations, promotions, air show coverage and attendance by marketing teams, a general aviation links section, link submission, link exchange, commercial and company links, resource links, airline representations. With this and so much in our future plans you will have the aviation world and industry at your finger tips. The galleries spearheaded by Frans Dely, known to some as Snapperjack and to others as Dely, include the likes of Gripen International, SAAB (with special coverage of the Gripen and Hawk weapons platforms), Eurofighter, Boeing, McDonnel Douglas, Fairchild, Dassault, Airbus, Cessna, Piper, Beechcraft, Lockheed, Tupolev, Mikoyan-Gurevich, NASA, Sukhoi, British Aerospace or BAe, various airlines such as South African Airways, 1time, British Airways, Lufthansa, United and so much more. Some military aircraft types currently covered either in air forces from all over or at military airshows include: fighters, air superiority fighters, bombers, fighter bombers, tactical strike, stealth, reconnaissance, low level interdiction, spy planes, ground strike, trainers, transport, remotely piloted vehicles, land and ship borne aircraft, carrier aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft, tactical lift, experimental and project platforms, space research vehicles, short take-off and vertical landing, vertical take-off and landing, Hind and Rooivalk gunships, Apache, Cobra, single-engine, multi-engine from propellers or turboprops to turbojets and turbofan equipped aircraft, subsonic to supersonic not to forget transonic either afterburner equipped or not, armed aircraft, armored aircraft, SST or rather Supersonic Transport Aircraft, the joint strike fighter and more. These galleries are shot with various equipment including Kodak, Nikon and other well known Digital photographic names. www.faa.gov/index.cfmMilitary helicopters include: armed and unarmed types, single-engine and multi engine, piston or turbine, battlefield support, naval support, casevac specialized, ambulance types, trooping specific, anti-tank and anti-armour or for that mater anti-personnel, search and rescue types as well as airborne jammers or signal intelligence orientated, hoisting, survival support, encompassing all types from the mighty Chinook to the Kamov models, the Mi-24 Hind and Eurocopter Tiger not to mention other United States Air Force models such as the Huey, Cobra and more. AvDim's civilian galleries will baffle you with our own photography of rare aircraft such as Harvard, Spitfire, Sea Fury, Bell helicopters, Robinson R22 or R44, Aerospatiale, Mil, Yakovlev, Antonov, various wallpapers, Agusta, Mooney, Aero-Vodochody L39 and L29 jets, the SASOL Flying Tigers, the Shurlok Team under Scully Levin's leadership, Glen Dell and his Slick 360, the new Ravin 500, Pierre Gouws in the AvDim L39 jet display, the Wesbank team under Dennis Spence, various schools such as Blue Chip, PFS, Central Flying Academy, Progress Academy and so much more! Ballooning and micro light aviation also receive our attention with coverage of experimental and homebuilt aviation. We often attend Oshkosh EAA or Airventure where we bring you experimental projects such as the Lancair, Rand Robinson, Bush Baby, ultra-lights, sailplanes, parachuting, gyrocopters, seaplanes, space ship one, airport information, aerospace developments, air traffic control matters, weather matters and the list continues. Articles and images also handle matters such as air to air and air to ground weapons, laser guided bombs, survival aids and matters which relate to cabin attendants, pilots, navigators, flight engineers while also looking into missiles and their capabilities related to aero planes or for some aircraft. As long as it is flying, sailing in the sky or ballooning we do our best to cover it. Furthermore, Aviation Dimension tries to promote South African Aviation by working together with the likes of African Pilot Magazine (serious about flying), SA Flyer Magazine, World Airnews and at the same time we are approaching the likes of Air Forces Monthly, Air International, Flight International, Flying, Aviation Weekly, Professional Pilot, Sport Pilot and other mags in order to improve aviation awareness world-wide. Our working together with Siyandiza and Vulindlela as well as the Royal Air Cadet Organization ensures that we remain in a position to ensure that aviation development and growth receives the fullest attention offering air forces such as the South African Air Force and hopefully in the future the likes of the US Air Force, the Russian Air Force, the Royal Air Force and other world Air Forces the opportunity to contact potential candidates through offering recruitment information. Future plans include our hoping to cover matters from elite sites such as NASA, the ESA (European Space Agency), Zukhovsky Test Centre, Star City (Russian Space Agency), Empire Test School and others such as the US Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB and the Navy School at Patuxent River, Epner, Denel, Armscor and more. The shop section now also sports a wide variety of ASA and many other aviation products. Garmin, Telex, David Clark, Softcom, Avcomm are just some of the names of the carried products. Aviation Shops and Pilot Shops are also offered for hosting to companies wanting to sell their goods on the web. The e-commerce section through Iveri is a secure connection which allows you to use your credit card and mail order capabilities safely and discreetly. Classifieds allow for submission, removal and browsing of any products offered for sale and are free to view. Soaring with Eagles has now established itself as a leading book and is available in the shop. You will also find the Capital Sounds page sporting Brian Emmenis and his Team, the voice of Airshows who as attended shows such as Farnborough, RIAT, AAD (Africa Defense and Aerospace), Oshkosh and many more. AvDim is your resource, we pledge for it to remain free and only require an admin registration. Please contact Andrea Serra on any of the available numbers on site for any enquiries.

Search Aviation Dimension

Search WWW



Gallery	News

Multimedia	Links

Forum	Mall

Classifieds	Opinions

Other	Web Design

REWARDS PROGRAMME

My Dimension Media believes in rewarding its members and contributors who allow our websites to be fully enjoyed by all throughout the world.

Due to the fact that we offer our media globally we reward through prizes and other methods quite simply because of the difficulty of financial values across the world's economy. In some currencies, the value of our currency could result in a reward not really worth pursuing.

What do we offer?

We set out a series of prizes each year to reward the people whom we feel offer the best combination of quantity and quality. It is envisaged to increase these prizes both in number and value as My Dimension Media grows.
Those prizes will be awarded in an open and transparent manner through contributors being voted for by a panel every 12 months.
Categories for prize awarding will be as per website and prizes will be awarded to each producer category.

Note:

License

You are willing to give My Dimension Media a non-exclusive license to the content. This means that My Dimension Media can promote your content (in whole or in part) on My Dimension Media or in any other media. "Non-exclusive" means you have the right to sign/ offer similar deals with as many other companies as you want.

Your material will remain of your ownership and My Dimension Media will only retain rights as above in the previous paragraph. Once material is published, My Dimension Media retains a life-long permission to publish that material on its sites and partner ventures.

My Dimension Media will however not use your material for commercial sales without your express permission.

We can also not return material or guarantee that submissions will be used due to quality or any other reason.

Content Rating

Your content must be suitable for a mainstream audience. That means no adult, erotic, violent or hateful content.

Categories and qualifying material:

Only material of your own writing and images or other material of your own authorship or material which does not infringe copyright qualifies i.e. your submission must either belong to you or your must have permission to submit it from the author. Naturally, material belonging to the submitting person will have preference on material obtained from open sources. In this case, quantity and quality will be the deciding factor when voting for the winner.
Contributing photographer rewards for constant contributors and photographers who can offer a support service can be found here: Click here. (this link is to go to a page containing the one given to Gerard for the rewards.).
Currently prizes are only for the website www.aviationdimension.com
Prize Categories are as follows:

Photography.
Articles: supported by text and images.
Written works: News submissions, reviews and any other written contribution.
Most contributing forum user.
Videos

Prizes:

Photography:

“Aviation Photography” by Malcolm English and the book “Digital SLR ” by Michael Freeman. Now you can improve your passion for aviation photography with these books. Stun your photography friends with your new acquired skills.

Articles:

The book “Fighter Pilots in World War II: True Stories of Frontline Air Combat” by Bruce Halpenny. True and interesting stories for those who enjoy writing about aviation.

Other Written Works:

The book “Mayday” by John F. Winslow. Seventeen true stories of aircrew fighting near impossible odds to bring their crippled aircraft back to earth. Newsworthy stories from those who challenged all odds.

Most contributing forum user:

The book “ The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told: Nineteen Amazing Tales from the Sky” by LaMar Underwood. Impress your forum friends with some entertaining true stories that they might not have heard before. A great book to make your “chats” more impressive.

Videos:

British Fighter Aircraft of World War II – 3 DVD Disc Pack. A good watch. British aircraft were instrumental in turning the War around. Learn more about these impressive machines.