Metro Area Links is a complete list of links for all your R/C flying needs.

Plans & pictures for building Keith Paskewitz' IFO on Keith's blog at rcgroups: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=335706 Bigger-Plans.pdf Sent in by Keith Paskewitz

Cheap $14.95 receiver for Spektrum radios: http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idproduct=11965 Sent in by Dan Cramer

Kevin Hamilton at www.xenonproject.com carries pretty much everything you might want. Sent in by Dan Cramer

Good place to buy Horizon Hobby products: http://www.advantagehobby.com Sent in by Keith Paskewitz

Interesting web site for R/C planes: http://www.hooked-on-rc-airplanes.com Sent in by Matt Brown

800 mah 2S packs for the CX helicopter for under $5. Is 15C enough? Sent in by Dan Cramer

High Quality Model kits, Engines for large scale including planes suitable for the Dusk Patrol : http://www.vogelsang-aeroscale.com Sent in by Dean Dingman

Link to early airplane archives: http://www.earlyaeroplanes.com/archive1.htm Sent in by Dean Dingman

Save on Canadian 1 dollar US= 1.16 Canadian http://gdhconsulting.ca/ Custom Laser Cutting & planes 4 sale Sent in by Tom Egbert

Save on battery for Vapor & similar planes https://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8864 Sent in by Bret Grell

New 3-D 28 gram plane from Axon axonracing.com Web Site rcgroups description and videos Sent in by Bret Grell

Get a new Mt 57 engine for a crashed usable engine. Details Sent in by Dean Dingman

New WW1 Planes from Tower Hobby - Electrfly Spad XIII - Sopwith Camel & Indoor Foamie Camel Sent in by Dean Dingman

Rhino Lipoly 360mah 2 cell 20C between appr.18 grams $4.85 www.hobbyking.com Sent in by Larry Bailey

.8 Gram Muscle wire servos www.micronradiocontrol.co.uk buy them from www.bsdmicrorc.com Sent in by Larry Bailey

12.3 gram Aito Foam Bi-Plane "RC Groups discussion" www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=806217&page=8 Sent in by Larry Bailey

Preliminary ideas for equipment and total plane weight. Sent in by Keith Paskewitz

Many kinds of foam http://www.rcfoam.com/cart.php?target=category&category_id=75 Sent in by Keith Paskewitz

Cheap Carbon Fiber tubes. http://www.canuckengineering.com Sent in by Dan Cramer & Fred Tuckerman

I Ordered Carbon Fiber rods. Good prices & good selection. http://www.acp-composites.com/ACP-CAT.HTM Sent in by Keith Paskewitz

Here is a couple of sources for getting EPP Foam RCSkyFlyer.com & FlyingFoam.com Sent in by Roland Lyons

Cheap 10 gram $12 Outrunners -- Light Wt. $6.29 Good Servos -- 2 cell 300 mah $6.34 Batteries, etc. http://www.hobbycity.com Details for Servo & Outrunner & Battery Sent in by Bret Grell

Excellent 3-D Foam airplane kits & equipment, also have great hinge tape www.fancyfoam.com Sent in by Kip Dirkschneider

Tiny little 3 pin JST connectors & wires for Ultra Micro Servo & new Nanolite 2 gram Spectrum Receiver & connects the two 2.4 GHz. JR Radio receivers too.

http://www.bphobbies.com/view.asp?id=A0320122&pid=D1518420 "I finally found the right ones! Be sure to pick the 3 pin plugs" Each plug comes with a male & female end including wire & pins. Sent in by Keith Paskewitz

Forum for the Western Front Dawn Patrol http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Western_Front_Dawn_Patrol Sent in by Dean Dingman

New lighter weight Hitec HS-45HB servo with carbonite gears, for indoor electric flying. http://www.hitecrcd.com/servos/show?name=HS-45HB Sent in by Keith Paskewitz

New light weight Spektrum Receiver and new light weight servo from Spektrum, for indoor electric flying. www.spektrumrc.com Sent in by Keith Paskewitz

Good web site to order from. www.espritmodel.com Sent in by Larry Bailey

Surfing around and found www.HiModel.com Great prices on brushless motors. Also, they have a sale on brushless ESC's. 40A for $16.00! Here's the link. http://www.himodel.com/electric/TP-40A_Brushless_Speed_Controller_G2.html Enjoy and spread the news, Sent in by Fred Tuckerman

AMA and Special Interest Groups

AMA District IX (Our District Web Site)

JPO Jets

NFFS Free Flight

AMA District IX (Overview)

LSF Silent Flight

NSRCA Pattern

AMA Insurance (Explained)

MECA Engine Collectors

SPA Senior Pattern

AMA Main Organization

NASA National Assoc. of Scale Aero modelers

SAM Old Timers

IRCHA Helicopters

NCLRA C/Line Racing

VR/CS planes before 1970

Battery Dealers Lithium-Polymer

Bob Selmons Designs (Li-Poly)

Duralite Batteries (Lithium-Ion)

Plantraco.com (Li Poly)

Castle Creations (Li-Poly)

FMA Direct (Li-Poly)

Radical RC (Li-Poly)

CheapBatteryPacks.com read warning & cont.

Great Planes (Li-Poly)

Unitedhobbies.com (cheap Batteries)

homefly.com Dave Lewis (Li-Poly)

Indoor Flyer (Li-Poly)

Wild RC (Li-Poly)

Cad Software

Compufoil (software for designing wings)

Smart Draw (Free Download)

Clubs and Web Sites for R/C in Our Area

Bellevue RC Aero Modelers

Midwest Performance Flyers

S.W.I.F.T. Soaring

Cobras

Missouri Valley Jet Scramble

Twin City Eagles

Fremont Frontier Flyers

Oakland Flying Eagles

Western Flyers

Lincoln Sky Knights

Omahawks

Western Front Dawn Patrol

Metro Area RC Flying

Omaha R/C Boat Club

Engine Manufactures

Aircraft International (Large Scale)

Rossi (Super Engines)

B&B Specialties Quadra Zenoah US Engines & Fuji

MDS

Super Tiger Engines

Desert Aircraft (Large Scale)

Moki

Webra Engines

Enya (Model Rectifier Corp)

OS Max Dist. by Tower Hobby

Zenoah

Flight Simulators

Full Size Airplanes

DC - 3 Aviation Museum DC - 3 information

Reno Air Racing Pictures 2000 Reno Air Races

Helicopters

Bruckner Hobbies (Thunder Tiger Hirobo)

Hobbies & Helis Int. (Quick Helis)

Rick's R/C Helicopters (Everything)

Century Helicopter Prod (Electric & Glow)

King RC (Many Kits)

TrendTimes.com (Ask for 10% off)

Chief Aircraft (JR Kyosho Piccolo)

Lite Machines (Directory)

X-Cell RC Helicopters (Fury 80-90)

CyberHeli (Good prices & service)

Model rectifier (Hirobo Shuttle Plus)

Heli-Kraft (Best price on Raptors)

New Creations RC

Heli-Proz (Everything) I got Align Micro Heading lock Gyros from here

OS Helicopter Engines (.32 to .91)

RC Direct (Electric)

Hobby Stores

Bob Boumstein used engines E-Mail Bob

HobbyPeople.net

Sig Manufacturing kits balsa etc.

BP Hobbies

Hobby Town - Irvington 402-498-8888

Tower Hobby Kits Engines etc.

I got slow flyer APC props

Dave Brown Products Simulators

Hobby Town - La Vista 402-597-1888

Dubro Products

Horizon Hobbies JR Radios 3-D

Waverly RC Model Aviation (Waverly NE)

Indoor Electric Flying

2dogrc.com

E Cubed R/C Micro Ant.& Good Stuff!

Modelair-Tech Plans kits and belt drives

ACE Hobby Chargers etc.

http://www.e-fliterc.com/

Monster Cable.com (2100mah AA cells)

Aeromicro.com Cheap/Free shipping over $100

I got 1320 Thunder Power Batteries & Hitec 56HB servos W/Carbonite Gears

Electric Jet Factory Ducted Fans

Nelson Hobby (Paint etc)

http://electrifly.com/

North-East Sailplane Products

Electro Dynamics Batt. & chargers

Penn Valley Hobby Supplies

AllERC All Electric RC

I got Kokam 20C 340 packs here

E Zone Mag (Rec. by Mike Moritko)

Peck-Polymers (CO-2)

FlyingFoam.com (Has EPP Foam)

Quiet Power (Electric information)

ACP Sales (Vacuum bagging materials)

FlyingModels.org (Motor Data)

Radical RC (From Dean Copeland)

Astro Flight Inc. (Brushless Motors)

FMA Direct Inc. everything

Radio Shack.com

balsausa.com

FoamFly.com (Build with foam board)

RC Micro Flight From Dean

Batteries America

Force Field (I got 3/8x1/16 Magnets)

RC Toys.com

Batteries, motors, Gearbox - Calculator

GoBrushless.com Build your own elec. motor

Red Rocket Hobby Shop E-Planes etc.

BMJR Model Products Kits and electric

Great Planes

Sirius Chargers bypass diode on Futaba trans.

BSD Micro RC

http://www.headsuprc.com

Sky Hooks & Rigging 888-562-8277

B & T Racing Products

Hobby Club Kits Motors, batteries.

SR Batteries everything

Castle Creations Castle makes the best ESC's w/computer interface in my opinion

Hobby Lobby (Everything Electric)

Sullivan Prod. Hardware

hobbyking.com Has everything electric & is the cheapest place. Most popular.

TheProfileBrotherhood.com 3-D Profile forum

Cermark Kits motors ICS Batt. 800-704-6229

ThePlanPage.com (Sent in by Kerry Bassett)

Chokes for receiver antenna

hoverandsmile.com/rcpower Elect. Information

thunderpower-batteries.com

copicmarker.com (Paint for indoor planes)

Horizon Hobby

Todd's Models Good prices

Dave's RC Micro & Parking lot

House of Balsa

TrendTimes.com (Ask for 10% off)

David Lewis Micro Electric

Indoor Flyer lots of items

Trick RC Zagi

Didel (Planes, robots interesting)

Joe Cole's Mini FEDA Heli ($255- w/shipping)

Ultra-Light 3-D Sport Bipe "IFO like plane"

DJ Aerotech Indoor & Park

Kokam (Lithium Polymer Batteries)

Unitedhobbies.com Outrunners for $6.95

Download plans here. (Good plans)

Magellan Tech Batt. Zapping for more current

Turnkey RC Kits

Du-Bro Products Micro hardware

Mark's Hobby Park Flyers

Wild RC I got my IFO's from here.

Duralite Batteries

Maxx Products From Dean - Sanyo

wattflyer.com Forums

Dymond Turbo Super Charger (chargers etc.)

Megatech Cars Chargers Radios

Windsor Props

Indoor Micro Flying (Planes under 5oz.)

Gordon's Micro R/C Plane Site

Micro Indoor Electric Planes

3-pin JST Plugs for 2 gram Spektrum RX

Warning most JST plug Equip. has reversed + & - wires with black wire in the center of the plug.

hobbycity.com cheap light weight good servos Outrunners etc.

Plantraco 1.2 gram RX 4 ch w/Built in ESC

5 Gram Brushless Outrunner 11.95 12/16/07

Indoor RC Products Used By Omaha Area Flyers

Brett Grell's Recommendations Page

Micro Indoor Electric Planes

Magazines

Airborne (Australian R/C)

Internet Scale Modeler Plastic, but good stuff

R/C Soaring (UK)

AMA's Model Aviation (AMA Publication)

Model Airplane News (MAN Web Site)

Rotary Modeler (Helicopters)

Fine Scale Modeler (Building tips etc.)

RC Micro Flight (Online Newsletter)

The E-Zone (Electric Flyers)

Flight Journal (Scale Articles)

R C Modeler (RCM Web Site)

Fly RC (Indoor to Giant Scale)

R C Model News Australia and New Zealand

Miscellaneous Web Sites

airfields-freeman.com (Abandoned Airfields)

Motor/Battery Calculators

MotorCalc.com Download Motor Calc

Motor Calculator (Figure Engine Size)

FMA Battery Calculator Kokam Batteries

Motor Data

Acrobat Chart (Page 72 (Nippy Black data)

New Flyers

RC Airplane World (Lots of good info)

New Flyer Help AMA good tips for everyone

New Flyer Information Web Site

Newsletters

Lincoln Area Soaring Society

Model Airplane Review

Online Flying Games

PCman's Arcade Flight Simulator

RedBullAirRace.com (New acrobatic racing)

Pattern Planes

http://www.centralhobbies.com/ (Good pattern planes and accessories)

centralhobbies.com

Personal Web Sites

Aerial RC Pictures Selling their Pictures

Metro R/C Flying E-Store (Keith's Online R/C Airplane, Heli, Books and Magazines Store)

Steve Peck's web site (Buy planes etc.)

Buy-topia.com (Keith's Amazon type store) - Buy something to help fund my R/C Web Sites)

Store4Tools.com (Keith's Online Tool Store - Buy something to help fund my R/C Web Sites)

Cameras4Fun (Keith's Online Camera Store - Buy something to help fund my R/C Web Sites)

Paper Airplanes (Sent by Mitt Grimes)

Pete Rosas (Pics on Carden Aircraft Web)

RC Airport.com (Very interesting site)

Christian Modelers

RC Airplanes.com (Very interesting site)

Quiet Power Electric Flyers Only (Elec. Info)

JoeColeMagic.com (Great Magic Show)

Scottish Aerobatics (Aerobatics Site)

Joe Cole distributor of the Whirlybird Aviation

Note from Joe

ScottsPaint.com (My son's paint business)

Shay RC Share RC pictures videos etc.

Radio Web Sites

Airtronics.net Airtronics Inc. 1185 Stanford Court Anaheim, CA 92805 714-978-1895

JRRadios.com JR-Horizon Hobby, Inc. 4105 Fieldstone Rd. Champaign, IL 61822 887-504-0233

FutabaRC.com Futaba Service Center 3002 N Apollo DR. Champaign IL 61822 217-398-0007

PolksHobby.com (Receiver works with any frequency)

HitecRCcd.com Hitec Customer Service Cntr. 12115 Paine St. Poway, CA 92064 858-748-6948

Spectrum (New Spread Spectrum Radio)

RC Clubs (Out of Area)

Blue Max R/C Flying Club Good building tips

Mile High R/C Flying Club Cross Wind Runway

The Buzzards' Roost RC Club Tallassee Alabama

Des Moines Modelaires Des Moines Iowa

RC Soaring Clubs Links to Clubs in USA

Charles River RC Club Charles River RC Club

Rocket City Radio Controllers Huntsville, AL

Delta Hawks Model Flying club

Sky Hawks (Cedar Rapids IA)

Iowa City Aerohawks (Iowa City Iowa)

Sky Rangers Model Flyers (Canada)

Hastings Skylarks Model RC Club

Sooland RC Modelers

RC Links Web Sites

RC Links Page From Jud Bock

RC Links Page from Dean Copeland

RC Supplies

APC Props Arcavion (Auto throttle)

Litepilots.com (Light weight pilots for models)

Triton Linear (Powerful Linear Servos)

Maxx Products (Switches with voltage control)

Tru-Turn Model Products (Spinners)

Micro Fasteners (Cheaper in quantity)

BobsEngines.com (Bob Boumstein's used engines) for latest engine list E-Mail Bob

Century Jet Models (Large Scale)

Polyfiber (Super filler: light-weight sandable)

FlyingFoam.com Foam cores

Precision Cut Kits (Cut a kit from your plans)

Zinger Props

FullSizePlans.com (get your plans here)

Scale Aero (Cover your plane with Aluminum)

Klass Kote (Epoxy - like old Superpoxy paint)

Stan's Fiber Tech (Fiberglass Cowls)

RC Web Sites

RC Universe

RC Warbirds (Learn about large scale Warbirds)

Giant Scale Planes

Ripstop and Carbon Fiber Rods

Forever Flying.com (Ripstop Polyester)

Kite Builder.com (Ripstop & Carbon Fiber)

Sky Hooks & Rigging (Carbon Rods etc.)

Hobby Lobby (Light weight coverings)

Picture Pretty Kites Ripstop & Rods 453-4970

Wild RC (Ripstop & Carbon Fiber)

Rubber powered Planes

These links and info sent in by Mark Bennett. Many of his materials & techniques can be used on light Indoor RC Planes. Click Here To See Them

Sailplanes

Dave's Aircraft Works

Isthmus Model Co.

Northeast Sailplane Products

DJ Aerotech

MM Glider Tech

RnR Products

Scale Planes

Aircraft Documentation

Scale Aero (Covering with Aluminum)

RC Scale Builder (Scale information)

Scale Masters (Scale information)

Software

Amarillo USAF (Fonts for printing on your plane)

Compufoil (software for designing wings)

RC Cad (Software for designing your plane)

Dave Brown Products (Flight simulator)

Real Flight Simulator (Fly on your computer)

Cockpit Master ($84.95 as of 7/1/01)

ModelCAD (Software to Design planes)

Ultralight Flying

EAA Ch 17 Drag-on Flyers Club, Omaha, NE

WW-I & Golden Era Aircraft

aerodromerc.com

These are part of the "air force" of World War 1 planes that movie director Peter Jackson is putting together over in New Zealand. Jackson is an avowed WW1 aviation nut, and rumor has it that he is planning on doing a WW1 aviation epic soon.

Dean D. Picture & Details

williamsbrothersmodelproducts.com

Western Front Dawn Patrol Forum

For list of over 40 web sites sent in by Dean Dingman Click Here

These sites can be a great asset for someone interested in Dawn Patrol type aircraft.

powerlinehobbies.com

www.proflooney.net

www.westernfrontdawnpatrol.com

Car Tuning

Local Clubs

E-Mail