Free Flight Technical Committee

PBMFC is affiliated to the
BMFA

Direct Link to the BMFA Rule Book - as a .pdf file

CIAM, the Home Page of the International Aeromodelling Commission of FAI.
CIAM Flyer - - - - - CIAM History

UK Based web sites with an interest in Free Flight, Indoor and Control Line

Aero-models

Excellent collection of model aircraft photographs, mainly freeflight

Andrews John

John Andrews - Aeromodeller. Beware accompanied by music......

CADMAC

Crawley and District Model Aircraft Club

CCM

Crookham Contest Modellers

CCMAC

Instructions

Chuck Glider's Model Aircraft Jotter - blog
this link to a "Silly Putty Timer DT"

Pictorial instructions from Tony Mathews

CLAPA

Control Line Aerobatic Pilots Association

CTH

The Cloud Tramp homepage

F4B Scale Magic

F4B - Control Line Scale

FFMF

Free Flight Model Flying - Martin Gregorie

Freeflightscale.com

Mike Smith

House of Frog

Frog kits from the 1940's and 50's

Hutchinson

Colin Hutchinson, scroll down for the free flight items

IVCMAC

Impington Village College MAC, Cambridgeshire.
Hosts indoor fun fly sessions.
Also holds the Ray Malmström archive

MADMAC

Morley And District Model Aircraft Club

MMA

Martin's Model Aircraft

Modelflight

Links from Modelflight

Wide ranging on-line magazine - Reg Heath who sadly died in December 2010
Direct to the Modelflight links page

NMAC

Nottingham Model Aero Club
Indoor Flying at Nottingham University Sports Centre

ODMAC

Oundle and District Model Aeroclub

RPMFC

Raynes Park Model Aircraft Club, SW London
Has an excellent regular feature ""Sticks and Tissue"
With an archive stored in New Zealand

SAM 35
SAM 1066
How SAM 35 Started

The Society of Antique Modelers Chapters 35 and 1066

Ramon Alban

RLA
Freeflight Modeller

Russ Lister Aeromodelling

SLA

South Leicester Aeronutz - not updated recently but a quantity of excellent information stored here.

Mike Stewart

Mike's flying scale model pages

Micro Receivers

Electric Flight

David Theunissen - Deltang

UCLP

Ukies Control Line Page - from Germany but in excellent English

VMA

Vintage Model Aeroplane - Ramon Alban

The Wakefield Cup

The Wakefield International Cup A history from 1911
by Charles Dennis Rushing

Ernie Webster of Keil Kraft

A page from the Derick Scott site Model-plans.co.uk

Alex Whittaker

RCM&E columist and photographer, mainly R/C but a lot of general interest info - also plans to blog from flying field.

Zoe's Control Line Aeromodelling Site
A personal view of Aeromodelling since the 1950's
Together with the pages above Zoe has also produced:-
Scanned Images of Vintage Model Aircraft Magazines
stored on Colin Ushers web site. Excellent effort.

The Model Engineering & Aeromodeller Magazine Indexes
Sponsored by TEE Publishing Ltd.
Of particular interest because of the Aeromodeller and Model Aircraft Index files.

Plan Suppliers

Australian Free Flight Plans

Free Flight Models

Colin Hutchinson

Hand Launched Glider

From the F4B Scale Magic web pages

House of Frog

Mike Stuart

IMAPC

The International Model Airplane Plans Co-operative

Model-plans.co.uk

Derick Scott

Model Aeroplane Plans

Rowland Carson

MSP Plans

Vintage, Classic, Sport and Duration Designs Recreated and Drawn by Martyn Pressnell

The Plan Page

G T Hunter

Potty Productions

Fred Steer:- kits, vintage plans, magazine plans

X-List Plans

From My Hobby Store

FORUMS

FlyQuiet free flight section

An excellent UK based forum which has an active freeflight section.

FFTC-Chatroom

The Free Flight Technical Committee group 'chatroom'

Hip Pocket Aeronautics

Hip Pocket Aeronautics: A place that takes a serious look at the art of miniature aviation.

FAI Freeflight

US based FAI freeflight. - You can subscribe to a regular e-mail newsletter.

SFA

Small Flying Arts - USA

Commercial sites with an interest in Free Flight, Control Line and indoor flying

A&DB ModelAircraft

"Classic models from the golden age of aero modelling"

Balsa Cabin

"Delivering the best in balsa for over 25 years!"

Dens Model Supplies

The model shop for the 'sport' modeller.

Hobby Free Flight

European based competition free flight supplies.

Just Kits and Models

Non-flying models - Includes paints and tools

JMP Balsa

AAA Grade Balsa from Papua New Guinea

Falcon Models

Particularly good for miniature R/C

Fibretech GB

Carbon and Glass fibres + resins and tools

Freeflight Supplies

Mike Woodhouse

Flitehook.net

John and Pauline Hook

www.gasparin.cz

Gasparin CO2 motors - Czech Republic

www.indoorflyer.co.uk

As the name suggests - Indoor.....

Micron

Wide variety of "useful things" well worth a browse.

Model Aeroplane Plans

Rowland Carson

MES UK

Model Engine Spares UK - Rebuild that old engine with our help!

MMER

Motorvation Model Engine Repairs

OSMAF

Old School Model Aeroplane Factory

http://openaltimeter.org/

Small, lightweight, low-power logging altimeter.

Profili 2

Rib Profile Plotting - Brief Review

RBC Kits

Wide variety of "useful things" well worth a browse.

Replikit

Laser cut vintage and modern kits

Robotbirds

Wide variety of "useful things" well worth a browse.

Sams Models

Sams Models - Indoor

Wide variety of "useful things" well worth a browse.

Micro Receivers

Electric Flight

David Theunissen - Deltang

Thiele - Claus

Modellbau Claus Thiele - Freeflight models

Topco Kits

A laser cutting service from your own drawings rather than a computer CAD file

U-Build Models

"Golden Age - Great Flyers". Mail order from Hertfordshire

Outside of UK sites with a Free Flight Bias
Australia and New Zealand

AFFS
FFDU

Australian Free Flight
Free Flight Down Under - newsletter of the AFFS

ACLN

Australian Control Line Nostalgia

Australian Free Flight Plans

Australian Free Flight Plans

Christchurch Model Aero Club, New Zealand - Also holds an archive of several publications.

A quality production from Australia

VFFS

Victorian Free Flight Society - Australia

Outside of UK sites with a Free Flight Bias
America

AeroSmith

Bob Beecroft - AeroSmith builds freeflight field support equipment, F1B support gear, custom engine work, occasional short-run work for the cottage industry, and services related to freeflight competition model airplanes.

AMA Glider

Krempetz family - USA

Paul and Ralph Bradley's Model Airplane Page from Jackson, Mississippi and Independence, Kentucky

Ray Arden

"Father of the glow plug" - on the Internet Craftsmanship site

Dr. Diesel

Eric Clutton, from Tullahoma, Tennessee.

A Century of Indoor Models

David Erbach - USA

Gizmogeezer

Indoor Flying Model

Tim McKay - USA

Internet Craftsmanship

Aircraft only a small part but certainly worth a look.

Jetex.org

International Jetex

Free Flight Fantasies

Thayer Syme - USA

Model Aeroplane Page
Free Flight
Micro Indoor

Paul and Ralph Bradley - USA
Jackson, Mississippi and Independence, Kentucky

NFFS

National Free Flight Society - USA

RC Micro World

Subscription based, on-line magazine. Sample available. - USA

SAM

The Society of Antique Modelers - USA

SDO

San Diego Orbiteers

SFA

Small Flying Arts - USA

Thayer Symes

Wide ranging site from the USA - lots of freeflight items

Regular Publications
A number of web sites have regular newsletters or publications that can be down loaded.

Christchurch Model Aero Club, New Zealand - Holds an archive of several publications. Including "Sticks & Tissue" from James Parry in the Raynes Park MAC and The "New Clarion" from SAM 1066

FFDU

Free Flight Down Under - newsletter of the Australian FFS

Free Flight News

A subscription publication, also National Free Flight Society Symposium Reports

A quality production from Australia

Worth a look even if you don't fly R/C gliders, for the quality of the photographs and articles of general interest.

James Parry on the Raynes Park Club site.
Click the "Sticks and Tissue" button on the left of the screen

Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
It is possible to have an effect on the content of Wikipedia articles, so if you disagree with their aeromodelling items or wish to produce a new article get involved!

Flying model aircraft

Includes static as well as flying model aircraft

Cox Engines

A history of their production over more than 50 years.