Gallery Free Flight resources

[Treetop]

Lots of ff kits and supplies:

http://www.easybuiltmodels.com/

Lots of good tips on building also. tt

another good site for building tips, articles etc.

http://www.eskimo.com/~smallnet/index.html

[TimGoldstein]

Indoor Free Flight wood and supplies as well as much for outdoor
www.F1D.biz

[Treetop]

Thanks Tim, they have some cool stuff, 36" balloon for $4, (for steering?) Great prices on tools (drill bits) insect pins for tiny balsa, a real specialty shop. tt

[sturmvogel]

Someone may already have mentioned Aerodyne for nitrate dope, covering materials, plans, f/f kits, timers, etc.
Bob Peterson

[FFlover]

Here's some free plans:

http://www.smallflyingarts.com/Free.../free_plans.htm

http://www.windysock.net/plans.htm

http://www.parmodels.com/Plans/index.htm

http://www.thestuarts.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm
(scroll down to see the plans)

http://modelplanes.my100megs.com/index.html

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/dbdesignbureau/plans.htm

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~barrylee/plan.htm

http://www.algonet.se/~friflyg/index.html (hLG's)

http://www.charlesriverrc.org/artic...erWhiz2plan.pdf
(HLG plan)

http://www.mindspring.com/~thayer5/...lans/plans.html

http://f4bscale.worldonline.co.uk/plans.htm (hLG's)

http://home.swipnet.se/mfk_slandan/hlg/hlg.htm (hlg's)

http://www.aeromaniacs.com/Freeplans.htm
(scroll down for more glider plans)

http://homepage1.nifty.com/akatombo/e-product.html (ornithopters)

http://www.frontfly.com/frntroom/freestuff.htm

http://www.home.zonnet.nl/nbrendel/html/drawings.html

http://home.student.utwente.nl/g.h....t/home_ifi.html

http://golum.riv.csu.edu.au/~gcar/FF.html (LULU plans)

http://www.freeflight.org/jlf/begin...ners_corner.htm

http://users.erols.com/bmarches/ModelPlanes

http://www.ualberta.ca/~khorne/

http://www.geocities.com/modeldelisi/gladiator1.JPG
(1st half of D.McHard's gladiator plan)

http://www.geocities.com/modeldelisi/gladiator2.JPG
(2nd half of D.McHard's gladiator plan)

http://www.oxfordmodelflyingclub.co.uk/
(click on downloads)

http://membersites.namezero.com/stu...cs.com/id1.html

http://www.e-aeromodelismo.com.ar/Planos/Motorgoma.htm
(spanish site with a whole bunch of rubber plans)

http://www.geocities.com/billy8601/mygliders.html

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanave...7165/index.html
(Mig 15 f/f plan)

http://peanut.scale.free.fr/sommaire_plans.htm

http://membres.lycos.fr/yannick/
(peanuts & a few pistachios)

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanave...3692/plans.html


thermals,

Dennis

[Bob Smith]

Is there a moderator that can make this a sticky and put it at the top of the forum?

[sturmvogel]

One of the best sources of free flight "stuff" is Aerodyne, a small company in California. They offer Pollyspan, Esaki tissue, silkspan, great nitrate and butyrate dope (both tightening and nontightening), kits of all sorts, plans, balsa, engines, etc. Try them at <www.freeflightmodels.com/index.html> and check it out.
Bob Peterson

[FFlover]

There`s a whole bunch of f/f plans buried amongst the r/c ones at www.profili2.com

[Darcy]

My Web site:

www.Rubber-Power.com

This is for beginners.

[WarPoet]

A new video tutorial DVD is available, showing how to cover with tissue and how to chalk tissue. These workshops were produced by recognized master modelers - pretty darn good stuff. Available at http://www.smallflyingarts.com/ads/DVD_1a.htm

[Tony Oliver]

Following a post in 'Engines', I thought this may be of interest.

Quote : Right now the Cox webpage is shared with the Estes rocket webpage. Very soon, Cox will have it's own webpage with loads of new products.

Check back at www.coxmodels.com later this month.

Dave Redden
Cox Models

That sounds very encouraging!

Tony

[Ryan Archer]

the freeflight world champs site is www.argentina2005.com

[FFlover]

Here are some more downloadable plans,mainly peanuts + pistachios.

http://users.skynet.be/bk320752/Plans.htm


Dennis

[Tail Spin1]

We just opened an online hobby shop specializing in free flight kits and supplies. We offer Beginners Kits, Sport and Scale Models, Warbirds, Helicopters, Ornithopters, White Wings kits as well as Building Supplies, Tools and Books. We also offer a tutorial on how to print decals on tissue paper.

Zachary Crawford
TailSpin Aviation

[Les Horvath]

Originally Posted by billystiltner

theres a lot of materials in this free flight and rc hobby.

right now i'm into peanuts, dime scale, stick models, ministicks,
ezb, and trying to convert those little cars into rx plane.

i've just been into this hobby for a little over 2 months and
the closest hobbyshop doesnt even sell rubber bands.
most of the materials I have came from local department stores
besides the balsa. So my first scale models were covered in walmart tissue. i bought guillows sheet models for the balsa wood. then i went to the hobbyshop and picked up some 20lb / ft^3 1/32 next time i took some scales. my first ministicks,peanuts and and ezb are made with wood from guillows jet stream wood
and the ezb covered with that tissue from walmart that looks like
polymicro. funny eh. it flies really well considering. i guess i have gained experience. now that i have learned a little there are so many things scattered out at different shops. where is the best place for getting 4-6lb wood , quality rubber, covering material, gears for pager motors and n20s, props for rubber and electric( i can make these but it would be nice to get some to compare the performance) lithium polymer batteries, micro recievers (for guided rubber powered planes in this forum of course), etc...

here are some places to buy materials that Paul Bradley turned me on to.


A very good source for rubber and props is Peck Polymers. You
will find their web site at http://www.peck-polymers.com.

Lone Star balsa has a web site and provides very good wood
at a fair price. You will find them at http://207.8.138.183/index.shtml.


here are my favorite free plans and howto places
I know they are covered in the free flight plans thread
but i'll post my favorites any way

http://pw1.netcom.com/~bradleyp/index.htm
http://www.thestuarts.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.theplanpage.com
http://www.geocities.com/dmlivesay/
http://www.mindspring.com/~thayer5/modelhp.html
http://www.flyingacesclub.net/alamo/plans.htm
http://www.ualberta.ca/~khorne/
http://users.rcn.com/bmarches/
http://www.aeronutz.flyer.co.uk/
http://www.indoorduration.com/IndoorDurationFrame.htm
http://freeflight.org/jlf/beginners_...ers_corner.htm
http://www.indoorfreeflight.com/
http://www.frontfly.com/index.htm
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/home.htm

Can you help me out with the Makarov airfoil coordinates.
Thank you: Les