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- Assembling Your Own Servo Connectors - Make your own servo connectors from PCB connectors, or "board mount interconnect products", by Rob Crockett.
www.ncws.com/rcrock/connector.htm
- Automatic Foam Cutter - Plans and drawings for a simple foam cutter, with PC and MAC software versions.
www.sea-gull.demon.co.uk/aero.htm#Auto Foam Cutter
- EH Airfoils - Designed by John Yost, and developed specifically for swept wing tailless aircraft.
www.halcyon.com/bsquared/EH.html
- Epoxy Safety - Tips for working safely with epoxy, including discussion of latex gloves.
www.charlesriverrc.org/articles/construction/epoxygloves.htm
- F3b Winch Resistors - Temperature Coefficients of Resistivity Data.
library.advanced.org/10784/tempcoeffs_resistivity.html
- Fletcher Design Study - An article on the design of an F3b sailplane.
www.hsa.lr.tudelft.nl/~frits/fletchtxt.html
- Glider Performance Airspeeds - An animated explanation of glider polar curves and how they relate to performance airspeeds.
home.att.net/~jdburch/polar.htm
- Hand Towing - Reprint of a column by Michael Lachowski in Model Airplane News on F3J, hand-tow soaring.
www.torreypinesgulls.org/F3J.towing.htm
- How to Cast Lead Nose Weight - By Michael Shellim, a relatively simple method of casting lead noseweight to fit accurately inside the nose of your model.
www.rc-soar.com/tech/casting.htm
- Jean-Pierre´s Homepage - Building techniques for planes fully made of glass- or carbon fiber using the lost-foam method. Homebuild CNC machine, matching foam-cutter, and E-Heli technique.
www.Geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Campus/1861
- JR XP8103 Sailplane Programming Tips - Links to articles on programming the JR 8103 radio for sailplanes.
isoar.ca/~andrewm/rc/JRxp8103
- Liftroll Cookbook - How to design a good wing using a vortex-lattice spreadsheet by John Hazel.
www.geocities.com/jebbushell/COOKBOOK.htm
- Mark Drela's Allegro 2m - Paper and plans describing the aerodynamics and structures of a 2m RES sailplane.
www.charlesriverrc.org/articles/allegro2m/markdrela_allegro2m.htm
- Molded Fuselage Pictures - Pictures and information on making fuselage molds.
www.scrollsander.com/Soaring-Mold.htm
- NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS), v 2.0 - Search NASA and NACA technical reports.
techreports.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/NTRS
- NSP Tips and Treasures - Collection of articles from past NSP catalogs.
www.nesail.com/tips.html
- Pressure Sensor-Based Altimeter Circuit - Includes introduction, what the circuit does, the circuit, the Schematic and PCB layout, tuning and adjusting, installation in the model, use, and parts list.
www.repairfaq.org/filipg/RC/F_Altim.html
- Project F3F - Anatomy of a project to design a moulded F3F-class radio control slope soarer, by Adrian Bedford.
www.rc-soar.com/tech/f3fproject.htm
- R/C Soaring Radio Programming - Tips on programming full house sailplanes. Articles on programming the JR388 which are also appropriate for the JR783 and 8103.
www.orlandobuzzards.org/tips.html
- R/C Soaring UK - What Do Thermals Look Like by Wayne Angevine, an atmospheric physicist.
www.rc-soar.com/tech/thermals.htm
- RCFSpic - Connect R/C receiver to a joystick port on a PC.
home.t-online.de/home/042073629-0001/rcfspic.htm
- Sailplane Designers Webpage - Source for Eric Lister's books. Sailplane Designers Handbook (1974) and Drag Reduction and Structures Handbook (1980).
lister3.home.mindspring.com/Sailplane1.htm
- Sailplane Performance Analysis - A theoretical study to evaluate the effect of minimum sink rate, span, and aspect ratio on the performance of a family of conventional radio controlled thermal sailplanes.
www.rc-soar.com/tech/perfanal.htm
- Sailplanes Unlimited - Listing of multiple articles and aerotow tips.
www.sailplanes.com/tips.html
- Schuemann Wing Planform - The article by Wil Schuemann which appeared in the February 1983 issue of Soaring, published by the Soaring Society of America.
www.scrollsander.com/Soaring-Articles.htm
- Seamless Molded Fuselages - Doing a layup with and joining the fuselage in the mold.
www.scrollsander.com/Soaring-Fuselayup.htm
- See How It Flies - A new spin on the perceptions, procedures, and principles of flight.
www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/title.html
- The Baals Wind Tunnel - Build your own low-cost wind tunnel for $200. Tunnel design developed for NASA K-12 education.
ldaps.arc.nasa.gov/Curriculum/tunnel.html
- The Rotary Driver System - Introduces an entirely new method of moving hinged surfaces in R/C aircraft. Completely internal to airframe.
www.ncws.com/rcrock/rds.htm
- Trimming Sailplanes - Article on trimming sailplanes for optimal performance by Brian Agnew.
www.halcyon.com/bsquared/Trimming.html
- Tubular Hinges - Knuckle or arrowshaft hinges for gapless hinge lines.
www.pilotsguide.com/rc/hinges.shtml
- UIUC Applied Aerodynamics Group - Excellent information on low speed airfoils and testing for model aircraft.
amber.aae.uiuc.edu/~m-selig
- V-Tails for Aeromodels - Some theory on V-tails: aerodynamics, flight mechanics. Yet another attempt to explain the differences between V-tails and standard tails.
www.fmsg-alling.de/vtail.htm
- Vacuum Bagging Wings - Vacuum bagging techniques for foam wings with composite, or wood veneer skins.
www.pilotsguide.com/rc/vacbag.shtml
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