Here are some links to interesting, informative, or otherwise necessary
sites around the web. If you have a suggestion for an addition here or find a
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General RC Sailplane Links
Clubs
& Organizations
Hand Launch
Airplane Theory
Just "Plane" Fun
Link & Directory Sites
Happy Clicking!
General RC Sailplane Links
Fat Lion Sailplane
One of the best sailplane resource sites on the net. Lots of useful
information. A wonderful site for the beginner.
http://www.fatlion.com/sailplanes/sailplanes.html
Radio Control Soaring Exchange
The Radio Control Soaring Exchange (RCSE) is a great source of R/C soaring info
This e-mail news list will send you either individual messages or a digest
form with groups of messages. Most of the real experts are available on-line
to ask questions.
http://www.egroups.com/list/soaring/
RCSE Archives is a great way to monitor RCSE topics if you would rather not
subscribe.
http://www.mail-archive.com/soaring@airage.com
RC Groups
RC Groups is an online forum with information and conversations on ALL types of radio control modelling. The discussions can get lengthy, and they reveal that everyone has an opinion! Here's a link to the Sailplanes threads:
http://www.rcgroups.com/aircraft-sailplanes-95/
Greg Mehojah
Our own local slope and electric fanatic, Greg Mehojah has a neat web
site at http://www.slopecombat.freeservers.com
Clubs & Organizations
The Albuquerque Radio Control Club is our largest non-sailplane-oriented area club. They primarily fly at the George Maloof Air Park on the west side of Albuquerque:
http://www.arcconline.com/
The Albuquerque Area Electric Flyers don't yet have a dedicated website. For now, they use RC Groups:
http://www.rcgroups.com/albuquerque-area-electric-flyers-212/
The Charles River R/C Club has an excellent site, with good tech articles, model
plans (including the Terminator hand launch and the Allegro Lite 2 Meter)
available for download.
http://www.charlesriverrc.org
The Rocky Mountain Soaring Association in Denver has a site (including plans for
the Soarcerer).
http://www.jmccconsulting.com/rmsa/index.htm
If you have an interest in scale R/C soaring, check out the International Scale
Soaring Association.
http://www.soaringissa.org
The Prescott Valley Silent Flyers, Prescott AZ.
http://www.pvsilentflyers.com/
Other area clubs include:
Alamogordo RC'ers
Alamagordo, NM
www.alamo-rcclub.net
Stealth City Flyers
Alamagordo, NM
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stealthcityflyers/
Belen Area Radio Controllers
Belen, NM
www.flybelen.com
Clovis Model Airplane Driver Society (MADS)
Clovis, NM
www.clovismads.rchomepage.com
Cloud Dusters RC Club
Hobbs, NM
www.clouddusters.net
Los Alamos Aeromodelers
Los Alamos, NM
www.laaeromodelers.org
Mesilla Valley Model Airplane Club (MVMAC)
Las Cruces, NM
www.mvmac.org
Rocky Mountain Flying Machine
Albuquerque, NM
www.rmfm.org
Roswell Aircraft Flyers
Roswell, NM
www.roswellrc.org
San Juan R/C Club
Farmington, NM
http://users.myexcel.com/Jester/index.html
Hand Launch
RC Builder
One of our members, Aradhana Singh Khalsa, manufactures and sells state-of-the-art, world-class discus-launch gliders: http://rcbuilder.com/
BARCS
British Association of Radio
Control Flyers has some great suggestions for practicing hand lauch
gliding and a bunch of other good stuff. Check 'em out.
Airplane Theory
RC Soaring Guide
One of our members, Brad Smith, has written an online book that's "all about" RC soaring: http://www.moneysmith.net/soaring.html
See How It Flies
This is an absolutely wonderful on-line book about airplane theory as
well as full-scale aircraft flying. It is quite large and has basic information
for the casual reader and more information for those interested in more
detailed theory. If you still think wings generate lift because they are curved
on top, you should read this on-line book.
See How It Flies
Suppliers
Soaring Stuff
One of our long-time club members (means old guy), Taylor Collins,
runs a specialty supply outfit called Soaring Stuff. Lots of hard to find stuff
including tapes, wing rods, skids, winch line, servos, etc.
http://www.soaringstuff.com
Aircraft Spruce & Specialty
A major supplier of full-scale aircraft supplies. Also many useful
products for the modeler.
http://www.aircraftspruce.com
Aerospace Composite Products
A primary source for fiberglass, carbon and other composite building
supplies.
http://www.acp-composites.com
The Composite Store
Another key source of composite materials such as glass, carbon
and kevlar cloth.
https://www.cstsales.com
Just "Plane" Fun
Unusual Aviation Pictures
This site has a large number of unusual aviation pictures. Ever see a
747 land at 45 degrees to a runway? You will here. Or perhaps you'd liked to see
a video of a passenger plane's jet wake tossing a pickup truck into the ocean.
http://www.aviationpics.de/ |