Warbird Alley: Submit Items

How to submit items to Warbird Alley:

We generally prefer e-mail submissions to editor (at) warbirdalley.com, since it's usually faster and more reliable than the Postal Service. (See our "Guidelines" section below.)

However, we also accept articles, photos and other submissions by regular mail. If you prefer this method, the address is:

The Doublestar Group
P.O. Box 954
Belvidere, IL 61008
USA

Due to the enormous amount of e-mail we receive, we cannot guarantee a personal response to each and every inquiry sent by our readers, but we sincerely appreciate any and all letters, notes, photos, reminisces, and contributions, and we will do our best to publish all pertinent submissions. We will evaluate all URL (Web link) submissions and will add appropriate ones where we feel they would be best located.

Note: We are NOT a research library. We cannot answer detailed questions about individual aircraft histories and markings, serial numbers, WWII crewmember's names, or similar topics. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. We recommend Google's Advanced Search tool as a great place to begin your research.

A couple of friendly reminders for those who wish to contribute written items or photographs:
1. WarbirdAlley.com is a web site about aircraft types which are privately-owned and still airworthy today. This is the reason we do not have listings for aircraft such as the IL2 Sturmovik, F-15 Eagle, F-105 Thunderchief, and many others. These are wonderful airplanes, but please do not ask us to include these in Warbird Alley.
2. Most of our focus is on aircraft from WWII to the present day, but we'll certainly consider adding a limited number of other aircraft to our directory.

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Copyright Issues and "Fair Use" Policy:

With proper notification, we almost always approve others' use of our text and images. Increasingly, however, we have discovered other Web sites and even major media outlets using substantial portions of our text and/or photos in their own pages without permission. While we certainly encourage "creative emulation" of our site, lifting entire pages from our site and using them on your own site is far beyond the limits of what is allowed under the Copyright laws of every country in the civilized world. We must vigorously defend our intellectual property, and we simply will not tolerate its outright theft by other sites. We have implemented several strategies to counter this threat, and will continue to utilize and perfect them as time goes by. Please respect the law, and common decency, by not participating in this type of theft. Thank you for your cooperation, and for your continued support of our site.

If you want to use a photo from our site, or would like to quote reasonable portions of our text, here's all you have to do:

1. Please give us credit by including a link to our site at http://www.warbirdalley.com, along with the words, "Text courtesy of WarbirdAlley.com" or "Photo courtesy of WarbirdAlley.com."

2. Then, send us an e-mail telling us where you used our text or photo. (We'd like to see your site, too!)

What's considered reasonable? One paragraph is reasonable. A single photo is reasonable. Copying an entire article or page is not reasonable.

Submission Guidelines:

Essays and Flight Reports: Our submission guidelines are pretty simple. We accept any article or photo you send us, but we can't guarantee we'll use it. By submitting a written item to us, you agree to let us edit it for spelling, grammar, article length, and factual content (i.e., if you accidentally tell us that the P-51 Mustang was designed in the 1840's instead of the 1940's, we'll correct it.)

Submission of an article to Warbird Alley does not prohibit you from also submitting it to any other publication -- Web-based, printed, or otherwise. (You might want to check other publications' submission guidelines before doing so, however.) If your article has already appeared in print somewhere, we'll need proof that you control the reprint rights, or we won't be able to publish it in the Warbird Alley site. All articles and photos published on the Warbird Alley site will be fully credited to the author, with an e-mail link or Web site URL, if desired. Please advise us at editor (at) warbirdalley.com if you'd like such a link.

Digital Photographs: We love receiving warbird aircraft photos, especially air-to-air photos and clear pictures of aircraft cockpits.

1. Please send the highest-resolution photos you have, preferably saved in .jpg format. Clear and colorful photos are best. Black-and-white is perfectly fine for historical photos, obviously. Unless you know what you're doing, please do not attempt to compress or alter your photos in any way. We'll take care of that task for you.

2. Tips: Try to eliminate reflections from aircraft windows and canopies, do not shoot directly into the sun, and try to fill the frame with the subject. (Use a zoom lens if necessary. Shooting an airplane against a big sky without a zoom lens usually results in the airplane looking like a small dot.)

3. For aircraft photographs, we appreciate any and all information about the photo you can send, such as aircraft type, registration number, serial number (if known), photo location, photographer's name, pilot's name (if known), and date taken. This will help us write an appropriate and helpful caption for our readers.

4. Do not send a photo if you don't know where it came from. Some of the photos currently on the Warbird Alley site came to us with no attribution attached -- in other words, we don't know who the photographer was. If you believe you deserve credit, please let us know as soon as possible. We'll contact you in an effort to establish your credentials. If you are, in fact, the original source of the image, we'll either add your credit or remove the photo, whichever you desire.

Please note: Printed photos submitted to Warbird Alley by conventional mail will not be returned unless you include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE).

Sponsorships/ Advertising

The Warbird Alley site is available for individual or corporate sponsorship. A limited number of advertising positions are also available. If you are interested in advertising with us, please contact Buck Wyndham at editor (at ) warbirdalley.com.