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

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.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

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)

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

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!

Peck-Polymers (CO-2)

ACE Hobby Chargers etc.

Electric Jet Factory Ducted Fans

Quiet Power (Electric information)

Aeromicro.com Cheap/Free shipping over $100

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

Electro Dynamics Batt. & chargers

Radical RC (From Dean Copeland)

E Zone Mag (Rec. by Mike Moritko)

Radio Shack.com

FlyingFoam.com (Has EPP Foam)

RC Micro Flight From Dean

AllERC All Electric RC

I got Kokam 20C 340 packs here

FlyingModels.org (Motor Data)

RC Toys.com

FMA Direct Inc. everything

Red Rocket Hobby Shop E-Planes etc.

ACP Sales (Vacuum bagging materials)

FoamFly.com (Build with foam board)

Sirius Chargers bypass diode on Futaba trans.

Astro Flight Inc. (Brushless Motors)

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

Sky Hooks & Rigging 888-562-8277

balsausa.com

GoBrushless.com Build your own elec. motor

SR Batteries everything

Batteries America

Great Planes

Sullivan Prod. Hardware

Batteries, motors, Gearbox - Calculator

Hobby Club Kits Motors, batteries.

BMJR Model Products Kits and electric

Hobby Lobby (Everything Electric)

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

TheProfileBrotherhood.com 3-D Profile forum

BSD Micro RC

ThePlanPage.com (Sent in by Kerry Bassett)

B & T Racing Products

House of Balsa

thunderpower-batteries.com

Horrizon Hobby

Castle Creations

Indoor Flyer lots of items

Todd's Models (Phoenix 10 ESC)

I got a Phoenix 10 for 50.95 including shipping

Cermark Kits motors ICS Batt. 800-704-6229

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

Chokes for receiver antenna

Kokam (Lithium Polymer Batteries)

TrendTimes.com (Ask for 10% off)

copicmarker.com (Paint for indoor planes)

Magellan Tech Batt. Zapping for more current

Trick RC Zagi

Dave's RC Micro & Parking lot

Mark's Hobby Park Flyers

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

David Lewis Micro Electric

Maxx Products From Dean - Sanyo

Unitedhobbies.com Outrunners for $6.95

Didel (Planes, robots interesting)

Megatech Cars Chargers Radios

Turnkey RC Kits

DJ Aerotech Indoor & Park

Modelair-Tech Plans kits and belt drives

WES-Technik (Germany)

Download plans here. (Good plans)

Monster Cable.com (2100mah AA cells)

Wild RC I got my IFO's from here.

Du-Bro Products Micro hardware

Nelson Hobby (Paint etc)

Windsor Props

Duralite Batteries

North-East Sailplane Products

Dymond Turbo Super Charger (chargers etc.)

Penn Valley Hobby Supplies

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

Cedar Rapids SkyHawks Cedar Rapids IA

SkyHawks (Cedar Rapids Ia)

Delta Hawks Model Flying club

Sky Rangers Model Flyers (Canada)

Iowa City Aerohawks (Iowa City Iowa)

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)

Artfac Graphics "Vinyl Graphics - Good Prices" 330-8200 located at 13333 A St Omaha Rec. by Bob Boumstein

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

Local Clubs

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