NORTHERN IRELAND MODEL SOARING ASSOCIATION
(NIMSA)
NAVIGATION
LINKS
| National Bodies | Magazines | Suppliers |
| Simulators | Software | Online Groups |
| Clubs | Northern Ireland Model Shops | Miscellaneous |
NI Clubs
| NIAA | Northern Ireland Aeromodellers Association |
| UMAC | Ulster Model Aircraft Club |
| BMFC | Belfast Model Flying Club |
| BAC | Banbridge Aeromodelling Club |
| NWMAC | North West Model Aircraft Club |
| OMFC | Omagh Model Flying Club |
| BAMFC | Ballymoney Model Flying Club |
| DMAC | Dungannon Model Aircraft Club |
| NDMAC | North Down Model Aircraft Club |
| LEMWA | Lough Erne Model Waterplane Association |
| SDMFC | South Derry Model Flying Club |
| StAMFC | St Angelo Model Flying Club |
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7TowAC |
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KesMFC |
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National Bodies
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British Model Flying Association |
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Northern Ireland Association of Aeromodellers |
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British Association of Radio Control Soarers |
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General electric flying, but they have an electroslot league |
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Information on Scale Glider Soaring |
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Power Scale Soaring Association. Body for modellers who fly gliders which resemble powered aircraft |
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Excellent club website in the USA. Also houses the plans for Supergee, Terminator, Supra, Allegro & Bubble Dancer |
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One of the most famous RC Soaring clubs |
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Forum for Silent Flight in Republic of
Ireland Covers all aspects eg slope, scale, PSS |
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Island Slope Rebels Slope Club in Republic of Ireland |
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Good site for information on scale soaring |
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Traplet Publications, home of Quiet Flight & Electric International |
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Very good German gliding magazine, now available with an English translation |
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Webzine covering all things electric in R/C aircraft modelling. Excellent resource |
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American site of Ken Myers, Produces the "AMPEER", an online newsletter for electric modellers |
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American Ezine covering Soaring, same format as Ezone |
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American Downloadable Magazine covering Soaring, |
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General Modelling site for all modelling interests
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RC-SOAR.COM |
Mike Shellims website. Plans for the pibros, excellent Multiplex radio resource and all general soaring |
| MID ANTRIM MODELS | 19 Wellington Street, Ballymena |
| NETMERCHANTS | Unit 20, Curran Business Park, Larne |
| THE MODELSHOP BELFAST | 38 Queen Street, Belfast |
| Daves RC Models | Unit 49
Lackaghboy Industrial Estate, Tempo Road, Enniskillen,
Co Fermanagh, BT74 4RL |
| Island Models | Not quite Northern Ireland, more ROI, but good stock of radio bits and some nice slopers, with more to come (some PSS, 2m moldie, short kits for scale models) |
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Model store supplying Soaring and Electric Goodies |
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Puffin Models Suppliers of the Filip, Highlander, Swift and Pike |
| Phoenix Model Products | Supplier of Gliders |
| FVK Modell | Suppliers of the Graphite. Have a UK Distributor, Brian Anderson ( brian.anderson (at) onyxnet.co.uk |
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Excellent supplier of rechargeable batteries of all types ( NiCd. NiMH & Li-poly) also props, motors, connectors & cables. |
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Supplier of the Mugi correx delta for slope and electric. Also supplier of many hard to get items like piano wire, carbon tubes/rod, quicklinks, wheels etc. |
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Ashtek electronics. Very good for connectors and various hard to find electronics bits & pieces |
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German made sim, very realistic, FREE download |
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Sim designed for practicing R/C slope soaringon a computer. FREE download |
CCRC Sim |
On an American Club site (Charles River Radio Controllers), FREE download and online support group |
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design software for drawing planes and then viewing them in 3D |
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Airfoil plotting software |
| Batabase | Software for keeping track of battery charging and usage |
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Airfoil plotting software, Initially FREE download, small registration charge for full functionality (10 euro I think) |
| Allegro Group | Group about building and flying the Allegro and various other models designed by Dr Drela |
| Bug mini hlg | construction of the Bug mini hlg from plans available from RCM magazine in the USA |
| CRRC simulator | Group for questions regarding the CRRC glider simulator |
| Little Nipper | Another micro glider, this one for dlg. Also available commercially as the Seeker |
| Northern Ireland RC Slope Soaring Group | For discussion of aspects of slope flying in Northern Ireland |
| SAL/DLG Group | for SAL and DLG glider info |
| Slope Soaring Sim | Discussion of the Slope Soaring simulator |
| RC Model Flyers UK | General model flying discussion forum |
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The basics of RC Gliding |
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