NORTHERN IRELAND MODEL SOARING ASSOCIATION
(NIMSA)
NAVIGATION
Courtesy of
LINKS
| National Bodies | Magazines | Suppliers |
| Simulators | Software | Online Groups |
| Clubs | Northern Ireland Model Shops | Miscellaneous |
| Video's | Podcasts |
NI Clubs
These are all the clubs with active websites,
for a full club list check
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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RC-SOAR.COM |
Mike Shellims website. Plans for the pibros, excellent Multiplex radio resource and all general soaring |
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127 High Street, Bangor BT20 5BD |
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Unit 49 Lackaghboy Industrial Estate, Tempo Road, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, BT74 4RL |
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Mainly indoor stuff, but servo's, RXs too |
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Mid Ulster Models 151 Moneysharvin Road Maghera, County Londonderry Northern Ireland BT46 5HZ |
| 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 mouldie, 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. |
Videos
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RadioCarbonart: Home of Endless Lift & many other excellent glider video's. Some instructional, some simply good viewing |
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Reese Productions: Producers of Lift Ticket & Lift Ticket to Norway |
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Higher Planes Productions: VERY high quality videos of
general RC flying
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More good general RC Flying stuff |
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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 |
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Airfoil plotting software, Initially FREE download, small registration charge for full functionality (10 euro I think) |
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All Things That Fly (ATTF) |
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The RC Today Show |
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Pure RC Radio |
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The Crash Cast |
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RC Radio Network |
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Glider forum based in New Zealand - Excellent range of topics |
| Allegro Group | Group about building and flying the Allegro and 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 |
| SAL/DLG Group | for SAL and DLG glider info |
| Slope Soaring Sim | Discussion of the Slope Soaring simulator |
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RCMF General model flying discussion forum |
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The basics of RC Gliding |
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