Heli Links

01/29/07

Please find some of my favorites links below. Most of them are related to Remotely Controlled Helicopter flight. Click here if you like to suggest a link.

My Sponsors:

	Lynx! SkyMedia. Lynx! SkyMedia provides all aerial photography and film capabilities you can think of.
	Rc HeliStore. It is a European shop with very good priced TT and Futaba stuff. No fuss with import tax etc.
	SAB blades. Very nice Italian blades, they fly extremely well, with very good autorotation capabilities, and yet they are very lively.
	QuickUK. QuickUk provides very nice and high quality helicopter upgrade parts.
	Ad van Oorschot Technical Support BV. Engineering and Process Technology

Model heli related links:

	Fritz the Cat. Additional build info on a lot of heli's, also on the Raptor family.
	Raptor Technique. Lots of setup info on Raptor Heli's.
	Natescape. Some nice info including some new maneuvers to try out.
	RC HeliBase. Lots of info about engine, gyro, exhaust etc.
	Shuttle Home Page. Lost of info on the Hirobo Shuttle.
	Manuals for RC helicopters and electronics.
	Flight Log. Program to log all your fights from Shawn Lammers.
	Flight Log. Simple but useful logging program from David Smith.
	Heli links. German site with lots of Heli links.
	RC HeliWeb. Has the third bearing upgrade for the Raptor.
	Helicopter video archive. Augusto's heli video archive.
	Flycam. Large RC helicopters for airborne video recordings.
	RC Helicopters Reviews and setups.
	Heli Fever. Nice site for starters.
	Dave Day Reviews of different radios.
	RC Helicopters. Good site, nice info about the dangers of heli flight.
	Little Rotors. Nice site with lots of articles and interviews.
	Jason Kraus. Homepage of Jason Kraus.
	Curtis Youngblood. Home page of Curtis Youngblood.
	SAB blades. Very nice blades, they fly very well.

International model helicopter shops:

	Cyberheli. Good internet shop in Hong Kong, good prices.
	Heli-Kraft. Good internet shop in Taiwan (TT), the best prices.
	ModelCraft. Cheap site in Japan for Shuttle parts. Very cheap Futaba Gyro's.
	HeliHut. Cheap site in Hawai.
	QuickUk. Internet shop for nice metal machined upgrades.
	Rick's. USA internet shop. They have some nice upgrades.
	Rotor. Good prices of the Raptor 90 etc.
	MushRoom. Reasonable priced RC stuff.
	Servo City. USA internet shop. Good prices for e.g. a 9C Futaba radio.
	Skyline Models. Bob Jonston's shop in the UK.
	RC Market. Belgium store.
	Update RC. Site of David Dutrieux, Belgium store.
	Ceulemans modelbouw. Belgium store.
	Top Dragon Model. Reasonable priced metal heads.
	Heli Bits. Some things have very reasonable prices for Europe.
	RcHeliStore. European shop (Belgium) with good priced TT and Futaba stuff.
	OnlyRaptors.Com. Only Raptors.
	Carbon Extreme. Name says it all, they have all the carbon you need.
	Heli Addicts. Reasonable prices for e.g. TDG heads.

Night Flight stuff:

	Glow Wire. If you want to do some night flying.
	Gadget winkel. Dutch shop with glow sticks.
	Club Things. Glow sticks.

Flying in the winter stuff:

RaydioWarm. Nice mittens to keep your hands warm in the winter.

Bearings:

	Model Fixings. Cheap replacement bearings for helicopters and engines.
	VXB Bearings. Cheap replacement bearings.

Servo data

FatLion. Lists all the servo's of the different brands on one page.

Engine manufacturers

	OS Max Engines in Japan. Good reliable engines.
	OS Max Engines (Hobbico).

RC Model Manufacturers:

	Hirobo.
	Thunder Tiger. The Taiwanese manufacturer of the Raptors.
	Futaba. USA Futaba site.
	Century Helicopters. The USA based Century helicopter manufacturer.

Dutch RC model (helicopter) shops:

Flycam. Lost of Vario stuff. They have a lot, but it is an expensive shop.

Flight Figures:

	F3C flight figures. Dutch National sports program.
	Helicopter maneuvers. Some maneuvers you can try.
	Paul's Heliworld. Some nice descriptions of figures.

Blade Manufacuturers

Sab Blades in Italy.

Personal websites:

	Harbs home page. Nice 3D videos using his Furry Extreme.
	Raptoritis, homepage of Chris. Heli site in Belgium about the Raptor virus.
	Homepage of Pieter van Zandbergen.
	Homepage of Koen. Belgium site about Koen's Raptor 50.
	Homepage of Volkul. Ken's active logs and info on the machines he flies.
	Heli Central. Good information on getting started with this hobby.
	Helicopter Tips. Good tips on getting started.
	Mil MV-24V E Helicopter. Very nice mini scale machine at little costs.

Helicopter related sites:

	Helicopter history.
	RC Helicopter history article.
	Vertical Reference. Crashing helicopter video's, you got to see: "Flying without lessons first".

Aerodynamics:

	Colin Mill's articles about helicopter dynamics (Part 1&2, Part 3&4, Part 5&6, Part 7&8 and Part 9&10&11).
	Basic aerodynamics for heli's from The Helicopter Aviation Home Page.
	Dynamic aerodynamics. Helicopter dynamics.
	General aerodynamics. It lists the popular nonsense Bernoulli's principle as well is the major contributing Newton's law principle.
	Aerodynamics for Students.
	See How it Flies.

General RC related sites:

	RC Links.
	R/C Airplane Plans & Tidbits. Site with plans for scratch building planes.
	RC Battery Clinic. All you want to know about maintaining your batteries.
	Batteries in a Mobile World. Battery Chemistries, how to charge them and a good FAQ about batteries.
	CheapBatteryPacks.Com. Cheap batteries online.
	Batt-Mann. Lot's of batteries, with good battery info.
	Ray hall Turbo Charging. Lot's of info on fuel to get rid of all the myths about fuel.
	Tuned Pipes Tuning. Nice info on setting the proper length of a tuned pipe.
	Propeller facts. Propeller, pipe and engine facts.
	Understanding your Radio (RC Helibase). Very nice info on how a remote control radio works.
	Peter Rother. FMT Extra article about different PCM encoding scheme's.
	Auto Pilot at Sourceforge. Some info about the PCM encoding of Futaba.
	Modelbouw.2link.be. Belgium RC modeling page.

Simulation related sites:

About simulation. A Valuable Simulation Information Resource Website.

Local flying fields

	MVSB. in Son en Breugel.
	The Wings. in Nistelrode.
	Snoopey.in Dongen.
	Ornithos. in Geldrop.

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