Northwest RC Clubs and Organizations

• NWSS The Northwest Soaring Society (NWSS), promotes R/C soaring competition in the Pacific Northwest through Northwest soaring clubs. Most of the contests are held throughout the summer.
• SSS The Salem Soaring Society (SSS), located in Salem, OR.
• SASS The Seattle Area Soaring Society (SASS), located in Seattle, WA.
• The Albany Thundervolts R/C Club in Albany, OR
• Portland Barnstormers R/C Club in Portland, OR
• Bay Area R/C Fliers in Coos Bay, OR.
• Bend Aero Modelers in Bend, OR.
• Canby Dusters in Woodburn, OR.
• Cascade Rotary Wings in Portland, OR.
• Eugene R/C Aeronauts in Eugene, OR.
• Field of Dreams Club in Redmond, OR.
• Flight Masters of Klamath Falls in Klamath Falls, OR.
• Fly-A-Ways R/C Model Airplane Club in Beaverton, OR.
• Full Throttle R/C Modelers in Hood River, OR.
• Lebanon Area Radio Control Club in Lebanon, OR.
• Lower Columbia R/C Society in Astoria, OR.
• McMinnvile Aircraft Modelers in McMinnvile, OR.
• Molalla Radio Control Association in Molalla, OR.
• North Coast R/C Modelers in Tillamook, OR.
• NW Fireballs C/L Club and NW Firecats C/L Show Team in Portland, OR.
• Molalla RC Association in Molalla, OR.
• The Miniature Aircraft Association
• Northwest Control Line in Eugene, OR.
• Portland Sky Knights in Portland, OR.
• Rogue Eagles R/C Airplane Club in Medford, OR.
• Rogue Valley Flyers in Grants Pass, OR.
• Salem Area Soaring Society in Keizer, OR.
• Salem R/C Pilots Association in Salem, OR.
• Snake River Valley Modelers near Ontario, OR.
• South Lane RC Modelers Club in Cresswell and Cottage Grove, OR.
• South Oregon Slopiens in Coos Bay, OR.
• Tidewater Taildraggers in Coos Bay, OR.
• US Scalemasters Association in Aurora, OR.

  Organizations in State of Washington:

• The Barons Model Club in Spokane, WA.
• Barnyard Buzzards Model Airplane Club in Monroe, WA.
• Bell Air R/C Flyers in Bellingham, WA.
• Boeing Employees' Aerodynamic Modeling Society of Everett and Seattle, WA.
• Boeing Eagles in Everett, WA.
• Boeing Hawks in Kent, WA.
• Cascade Model Helicopter Club in Snohomish, WA.
• Clark County Radio Control Society in Ridgefield, WA.
• Evergreen Radio Modelers Association in Marysville, WA.
• Fern Prairie Modelers in Camas, WA; Location of the FPM field map.
• Inland Empire Soaring Society in Spokane, WA
• Kitsap Aircraft Radio Control Society in Port Orchard, WA.
• Marymoor Radio Control Club in Redmond, WA.
• Mid Columbia Soarers in Richland, WA.
• Miniature Aircraft Association in The Tri-Cities, WA.
• Moses Lake Radio Control Modelers in Moses Lake, WA.
• Mount Rainier Radio Control Society in Tacoma, WA.
• Newman Lake Aeronautical Pilots Society in Spokane, WA.
• Olympic Radio Control Association (ORCA) in Poulsbo, WA.
• Puget Sound RC Flyers in Rainier, WA.
• Puget Sound Silent Flyers in Olympia, WA.
• Radio Aeromodelers of Seattle in Sumner, WA
• Sanderson Field RC Flyers in Shelton, WA
• San Juan Slope Soarers in The San Juan Islands, WA
• Seattle Area Soaring Society in Seattle, WA.
• Skagit R/C Club in Burlington, WA.
• Northwest Skyraiders in Tacoma, WA.
• Tri-Area R/C Flyers in Port townsend, WA.
• Tri-City Radio Control Modelers in Kennewick, WA.
• Walla Walla Valley Prop Twisters in Walla Walla, WA.
• Whidbey Island Radio Control Society in Oak Harbor, WA.

Soaring Magazines:

• RCSD Radio Control Soaring Digest
• EZone Electric flight virtual magazine
• Air age media

Websites groups:

• RCGroups

Other Soaring Clubs and Organizations:

• International Aeromodelling Commission of FAI
• Castle Creations Bernies new Home!
• AMA Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA)
• LSF League of Silent Flight (LSF)
• LES League for Electric Soaring (LES)
• TPG Torrey Pines Gulls
• ESL Eastern Soaring League (ESL)
• ISSA International Scale Soaring Association (ISSA)
• BARCS British Association of Radio Control Soarers (BARCS)
• IMSF InterMountain Silent Flyers (IMSF)
• PSS Pasadena Soaring Society (PSS)
• SLNT Soaring League of North Texas (SLNT)  (Really slow web site)
• CSR California Slope Racers (CSR)

Handlaunch Glider Related, including DLG, TLG, SAL, etc:

• Launch height data logger that you can purchase
• Raptor Raptor Aerosports high quality composite HLG's
• TGW Thermal-Gromit Works
• Chris Kaiser's Kahu DLG
• Link 58 Dick Barker's UpLink 58 DLG
• DLG D&C DLG Design & Construction Techniques

Slope Soaring Related Sites:

• ASRO American Slope Racing Organization
• GK GliderKing - an online source for slope soaring information
• Links to foam wing and slope kit makers

Soaring References and Databases:

• UIUC Michael Selig -- Airfoil Research
• Clubs RC Soaring's list of RC soaring clubs
• SHIF See How It Flies - aerodynamics for pilots without deep math or physics
• Knots Learn how to join two end of a broken winch line at this site...

Links to Scale Sailplane information including Kit suppliers

Many pages are in German and other languages.  Use google translator to convert to English:  http://translate.google.com

• mfc-ostrachtal.de:  links to a lot of manuf.
• lazer-works.com:  laser cutters
• airworld.online.de
• ak-models.com
• arizonamodels.com
• belairkits.com
• cnc-modellbautechnik.de
• desertaircraft.com/
• faltusmodel.com
• fatlion.com
• flyingscalemodels.com
• flyingscalemodels.com
• fraesfritz.de:  wood builders kits
• hobbycity.com
• islandmodels.ie:  wood builders kits
• www.knzink.de:  wood builders kits (search for Flugmodelle or search around their site)
• lenger.de
• mfc-ostrachtal.de
• mkrusa.com:  wood builders kits
• modelactivitypress:  plans
• nesail.com:
• nitroplanes.com
• raidentech.com
• rcsoaringdigest.com
• rchobby.co.uk
• rosenthal-flugmodelle.com: wood builders kits
• royal-model.sweb.cz
•  Large list of good links:  scalesoaring.co.uk
• scalesoaring.co.uk
• scalegliders.co.uk
• schneider-modell.at:  wood builders kits?
• silentflight.net
• silentflight.net
• skybench.com
• spiremodels.com
• tangent-modelltechnik.com
• tmrcsailplanes.com:  wood builders kits
• tragflaechenbau-mueller.de
• vintagesailplaner.com/kits.html: wood builders kits
• (Not same as previous listing) Vintage Sailplane Association (VSA):  vintagesailplane.org:  information
• woodwings.de:  wood builders kits

Flying-Model-Simulator:

• FMS Flying-Model-Simulator home page (English website version)
• Models FMS downloadable model aircraft (English website version)
• More Models FMS downloadable model aircraft (German website )

Weather:

• GWD Gorge Wind Data

Manufactures and kits:

• Microflight's RC Plane Kits
• Links2:  Balsa kits
• WD Winch Doctor -- Real Balls, winches, other cool winch stuff and wisdom
• RnR Products composite aircraft
• Skybench Aerotech Makers of nostalgia kits
• Hitec RCD Value radios
• Peak Electronics, Inc. -- Home of the SIRIUS CHARGE Pro Series
• Volz Servos
• JK Aerotech Durable, inexpensive, "foamies" airplane kits for combat or sport flying
• Combat Wings. Specialize is RTF combat wings and kits, both glider and electric.

Suppliers:

• eatonairrc.com  ODR slope planes (One design rule, fun one, etc.) several to choose from at great prices.
• www.soaringstuff.com
• ShredAir Go-Fast sailplanes
• F3X F3B, F3J, F3F performance composite models
• Hollyday Designs (Home of "Switch-Jacks")
• NSP Northeast Sailplane Products
• Coyote Hobby in Oregon City, Oregon
• Tammies Hobbies in Beaverton, Oregon
• SSC Supermodel Sailplane Company
• Multiplex
• RCA Radio Carbon Art RC soaring and electric flight videos
• LBW Little Big Winch
• Tower Hobbies
• Electronic diy for RC

Other Interesting Sites:

• W.W.Grigg fishing poles
• Windcrafters Inc. Think outside the blimp
• MAS Miniature Aviation Showcase, Noel Martin's interesting modeling collection that you can visit in McMinnville, OR
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
• NTRS NASA Technical Reports
• DFRC NASA Dryden Research
• NASM National Air and Space Museum
• DDave Dangerous Dave's Handmade Composite Stuff
• RiversWest Small Craft Center
• Oregon Rocketry

4x4 mud runs:

• pnw4x4s:   Mud bogs and 4x4 action
• www.mymudspace.com:  Calendar of mud runs

Computer related:

• Open source Windows software (legal free software)