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I have added notes on good places that I have ordered from.  It may be helpful if you are looking for the best place to buy an item.  Keith 

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New Links Sent in By Area Club Members

Indoor Micro Flying (Planes under 5oz.)

Personal Web Sites

AMA and Special Interest Groups

Indoor RC Products Used By Omaha Area Flyers

Radio Web Sites

Battery Dealers Lithium-Polymer

Local Clubs

RC Clubs (Out of Area)

Cad Software

Magazines

RC Links Web Sites

Clubs and Web Sites for R/C in our area

Miscellaneous Web Sites

RC Supplies

Engine Manufactures

Motor/Battery Calculators

RC Web Sites

Flight Simulators

Motor Data

Ripstop and carbon Fiber Rods

Full Size Airplanes

New Flyers

Sailplanes

Helicopters

Newsletters

Scale Planes

Hobby Stores

Online Flying Games

Software

Indoor Electric Flying

Pattern Planes

WW-I & Golden Era Aircraft

 

New Links Sent in By Area Club Members

 

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 more info www.toki.co  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 

5 Gram Brushless Outrunner https://www.unitedhobbies.com/UNITEDHOBBIES/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=6312   

RC Groups discussion of this motor. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=778956  Sent in by David Cantrell

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.homefly.com/products.asp? id=29  "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

Outrunner Motors for $6.95!!  http://www.unitedhobbies.com  Sent in by Dean Copeland

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
AMA Insurance   (Explained) NSRCA Pattern
AMA Main Organization MECA Engine Collectors SPA Senior Pattern
IMAA Large Scale 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) Dynamic Web Enterprises  small (Li-Poly) Plantraco.com                   (Li Poly) 
Castle Creations            (Li-Poly) E-Tec 700 Li-Poly cells (Higher Amp Draw) Radical RC                      (Li-Poly)
CheapBatteryPacks.com read warning & cont. FMA Direct                   (Li-Poly) Unitedhobbies.com (cheap Batteries)
homefly.com Dave Lewis                        (Li-Poly) Great Planes               (Li-Poly) Wild RC                   (Li-Poly)
Duralite Batteries         (Lithium-Ion) Indoor Flyer                 (Li-Poly)  

 

Cad Software
  Model Cad  (Specifically for drawing Models) Smart Draw  (Free Download)
Compufoil  (software for designing wings) Wing Master  (Airfoil Design)  
Design CAD  (Complete CAD Program $999.99) Graphite  (2-D 3-D Trial version available)  

 

 

 

 

 

Engine Manufactures
Aircraft International  (Large Scale)   Gas Engines Rossi  (Super Engines)  Rossi Specs etc. 
B&B Specialties Quadra Zenoah US Engines & Fuji MDS Super Tiger Engines
Desert Aircraft             (Large Scale) Moki

Webra Engines  Dist. by Horizon Hobby
Enya  (Model Rectifier Corp) OS Max  Dist. by Tower Hobby Zenoah

 

Flight Simulators
Aero Fly Pro   (Has Omahawk's field) Dave Brown Products   realitycraft.com
Cockpit Masters Real Flight (I have this one-Not recommended)  

 

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)  
Century Helicopter Prod  (Electric & Glow)   RC Direct  (Electric)
Chief Aircraft    (JR  Kyosho  Piccolo) King RC  (Many Kits) Rick's R/C Helicopters  (Everything)
CyberHeli  (Good prices & service)  Lite Machines  (Directory) TrendTimes.com  (Ask for 10% off)
Heli-Kraft   (Best price on Raptors) Model rectifier  (Hirobo Shuttle Plus)  

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

 New Creations RC      X-Cell RC Helicopters  (Fury 80-90)
OS Helicopter Engines   (.32 to .91)  

 

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 Good Stuff- Batteries E Cubed R/C  Micro Ant.& Good Stuff! Plans  Sent in by Don Pogue
ACE Hobby  Chargers etc. Plans  Sent in by Don Pogue 

Aeromicro.com Cheap/Free shipping over $100

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

 Peck-Polymers  (CO-2)
Electric Jet Factory Ducted Fans Quiet Power  (Electric information)
Electro Dynamics Batt. & chargers Radical RC  (From Dean Copeland)
Airdyn   (Corners for carbon fiber rods) Radio Shack.com

AllERC  All Electric RC

I got Kokam 20C 340 packs here

 E Zone Mag  (Rec. by Mike Moritko) RC Micro Flight From Dean
FlyingFoam.com  (Has EPP Foam) RC Toys.com
ACP Sales  (Vacuum bagging materials) FlyingModels.org (Motor Data) Red Rocket Hobby Shop  E-Planes etc.
Air Dynamics  (Carbon Fiber Rods etc.) FMA Direct Inc. everything Sirius Chargers bypass diode on Futaba trans.
Astro Flight Inc.  (Brushless Motors)  FoamFly.com  (Build with foam board) Sky Hooks & Rigging  888-562-8277

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 Force Field  (I got 3/8x1/16  Magnets) SR Batteries everything
GoBrushless.com Build your own elec. motor *
balsausa.com Great Planes SR Batteries everything
Batteries America Hobby Club Kits Motors, batteries. *
Batteries, motors, Gearbox - Calculator

Hobby Lobby  (Everything Electric)

I got Nippy Black Brushless Motors 0808/98 for 8oz planes 1210 /103 for 15 oz planes

 Sullivan Prod. Hardware
BMJR Model Products Kits and electric Super Nova 250-S  Charger
BSD Micro RC TheProfileBrotherhood.com 3-D Profile forum
B & T Racing Products House of Balsa ThePlanPage.com (Sent in by Kerry Bassett)
Castle Creations Indoor Flyer                 lots of items
Cermark Kits motors ICS Batt. 800-704-6229

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

 thunderpower-batteries.com

Chokes for receiver antenna

 Kokam  (Lithium Polymer Batteries)

Todd's Models   (Phoenix 10 ESC)

I got a Phoenix 10 for 50.95 including shipping
copicmarker.com  (Paint for indoor planes) Magellan Tech  Batt. Zapping for more current
Dave's RC Micro & Parking lot Mark's Hobby  Park Flyers TrendTimes.com  (Ask for 10% off)
David Lewis Micro Electric Maxx Products From Dean - Sanyo Trick RC  Zagi
Didel  (Planes, robots interesting) Megatech Cars Chargers Radios Ultra-Light 3-D Sport Bipe  "IFO like plane"
DJ Aerotech Indoor & Park Modelair-Tech Plans kits and belt drives Unitedhobbies.com  Outrunners for $6.95
Download plans here.  (Good plans) Monster Cable.com  (2100mah AA cells) Turnkey RC Kits
Du-Bro Products Micro hardware Nelson Hobby   (Paint etc) WES-Technik  (Germany)
Duralite Batteries  *

Wild RC  I got my IFO's from here. 

Dymond Turbo Super Charger (chargers etc.) North-East Sailplane Products Windsor Props 
  Penn Valley Hobby Supplies .

Indoor Micro Flying (Planes under 5oz.)

Gordon's Micro R/C Plane Site

 List of Links for micro planes parts "rcgroups"

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.
Micro Indoor Electric Planes
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) Rotory 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)    

 

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

 

 

 

Pattern Planes
Gator RC  (Good pattern planes and accessories)    

 

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)

 ScottsPaint.com (My son's paint business)

Buy-topia.com (Keith's Amazon type store)

 Mid-Missouri Radio Control Association Shay RC  Share RC pictures videos etc.
Cameras4Fun (Keith's Online Camera Store - Buy something to help fund my R/C Web Sites)
Paper Airplanes  (Sent by Mitt Grimes) Steve Peck's web site  (Buy planes etc.)
Christian Modelers Pete Rosas (Pics on Carden Aircraft Web)
Store4Tools.com (Keith's Online Tool Store - Buy something to help fund my R/C Web Sites)
  RC Airplanes.com (Very interesting site) RC Airport.com  (Very interesting site)
JoeColeMagic.com (Great Magic Show) Scottish Aerobatics (Aerobatics Site) Quiet Power Electric Flyers Only (Elec. Info)

 

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

 Spectrum  (New Spread Spectrum Radio)
FutabaRC.com  Futaba Service Center 3002 N Apollo DR. Champaign IL 61822 217-398-0007 KennedyComposites.com Sombra Labs Shadow Change frequency on receiver  Sombras web not working yet so I am sending you to Kennedy  
HitecRCcd.com Hitec Customer Service Cntr. 12115 Paine St. Poway, CA 92064 858-748-6948  PolksHobby.com (Receiver works with any frequency)  

 

RC Clubs (Out of Area)
Blue Max R/C Flying Club Good building tips

Mile High R/C Flying Club  Cross Wind Runway

 Skylark's RC Club  (Hastings NE)
Des Moines Modelaires  Des Moines Iowa Ottumwa Radio Controlled Flyers  Ottumwa Iowa  Sooland RC Modelers
Charles River RC Club Charles River RC Club RC Soaring Clubs Links to Clubs in USA The Buzzards' Roost RC Club Tallassee Alabama
Cedar Rapids SkyHawks Cedar Rapids IA Rocket City Radio Controllers Huntsville, AL Waverly RC (Waverly NE)
Delta Hawks Model Flying club SkyHawks (Cedar Rapids Ia) *
Iowa City Aerohawks (Iowa City Iowa)  Sky Rangers Model Flyers  (Canada) *

 

RC Links Web Sites
RC Links Page  From Jud Bock RC Links Page from  Dean Copeland  

 

RC Supplies
APC Props Arcavion  (Auto throttle) Klass Kote  (Epoxy - like old Superpoxy paint) Scale Aero (Cover your plane with Aluminum)

Litepilots.com  (Light weight pilots for models) 

 Stan's Fiber Tech  (Fiberglass Cowls)
Artfac Graphics "Vinyl Graphics - Good Prices"  330-8200 located at 13333 A St Omaha  Rec. by Bob Boumstein Maxx Products (Switches with voltage control) Triton Linear  (Powerful Linear Servos)
Century Jet Models (Large Scale) Micro Fasteners (Cheaper in quantity) Tru-Turn Model Products (Spinners)
  Polyfiber (Super filler: light-weight sandable) BobsEngines.com  (Bob Boumstein's used engines)  for latest engine list E-Mail Bob 
FlyingFoam.com  Foam cores Precision Cut Kits (Cut a kit from your plans) Zinger Props
FullSizePlans.com  (get your plans here) RCShowcase.com  (Large Scale)  

 

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)

 

Sailplanes
Dave's Aircraft Works Isthmus Model Co. Northeast Sailplane Products
DJ Aerotech MM Glider Tech RnR Products

 

Scale Planes
Aircraft Documentation RC Scale Builder  (Scale information)  
  Scale Aero  (Covering with Aluminum)  Scale Masters  (Scale information)

 

Software

Amarillo USAF (Fonts for printing on your plane)

Compufoil  (software for designing wings)

ModelCAD (Software to Design planes)
Aero Fly Pro  (Can do torque rolls) Dave Brown Products (Flight simulator) RC Cad (Software for designing your plane)
Cockpit Master  ($84.95 as of  7/1/01)   Real Flight Simulator (Fly on your computer)

 

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. 
 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

 

 
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