Two permanently(?) defunct aviation websites

• Aug 18, 2020

• #1

H

Hoggardhigh

Airman 1st Class

199

8

Jan 6, 2014

United States

I have visited the URLs of the following websites over the past few days:

1. americancombatplanes.com (Ray Wagner's website about, well, American combat planes)
2. 361fg.com (The 361st Fighter Group's official website)

and both are clearly offline.

Anyone know if one or both of those sites are permanently offline?

Thanks

 

• Aug 20, 2020

• #2

B

Barrett

Senior Airman

658

1,083

Feb 9, 2007

Western United States

Thanks for the tip on Ray's site. I was just clearing out some book shelves and almost donated Ray's massive tome to a library but so help me it's true: NOBODY KNOWS HOW LONG A WEBSITE WILL LAST!

 

• Aug 20, 2020

• #3

M

MIflyer

1st Lieutenant

6,232

11,944

May 30, 2011

Cape Canaveral

Shucks, I gave my collection of space launch videos of a failure to Embry Riddle University. They agreed to make them accessible to researchers but instead they threw them away.

 

• Aug 20, 2020

• #4

vikingBerserker

Lieutenant General

28,790

4,609

Apr 10, 2009

South Carolina

Not sure who if anybody is maintaining Ray's website and its been 8 years since he passed away. I don't think SDAM was doing it.

 

• Aug 21, 2020

• #5

ODonovan

Airman 1st Class

274

228

Jun 16, 2014

Tampa, FL, USA

The 361st may have transitioned to Facebook, as a lot of other organizations have done.

361st FG Facebook Group



-Irish

 

• Aug 23, 2020

• #6

Freebird

Master Sergeant

2,558

104

Nov 12, 2007

British Columbia

Barrett said:

Thanks for the tip on Ray's site. I was just clearing out some book shelves and almost donated Ray's massive tome to a library but so help me it's true: NOBODY KNOWS HOW LONG A WEBSITE WILL LAST!

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Fleetairarmarchive.net looks like it is also defunct.