Carrier and other links
Using the search engines is all very well, but can still take an inordinate amount of time to track down the information you want. Once you find a good links page, it can speed your way to other material you otherwise wouldn't find.
We hope you find these links of interest, and if you know of any others, please let us know.AMA
Academy of Model aeronautics. US equivalent of the BMFA.Pedro Almeda
Portuguese site, with a brilliantly-written page on learning to fly control line. (Remember doing that?)Angwin MAC
Control line Club site, with a good links page and a message board. (If you are looking for a 1947 left-handed flange grommet, here's the place to beg and plead.)BMFA
British Model Flying Association, the governing body of aeromodelling in the UK.Brodak
Seriously good US model kit maker, including Carrier.Phil Brown's C/L links
A comprehensive page of control line links. Also runs a C/L forum at: http://www.flightlines.com/forum/Control line modeling in the classroom
An American teacher describes integrating aeromodelling into the curriculum. They actually have classes in Aerospace Science... this would have stopped Andy and me wasting so much time sitting at the back designing Carrier models!C/L Model Airplanes
A sizeable site by Iskandar Taib, with sections devoted to stunt, combat AND CARRIER! Also boasts a message board for bargains and more.CADMAC
In the Southeast of England, the Crawley and District Model Aero Club. Some C/L and carrier content. Hosted by Victor Swanwick, up and coming Carrier flyer.Fox Manufacturing
Legendary US motor manufacturer in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Good product range, zappy site, turn down the colour on your monitor before you go here, and be prepared for some lengthy downloads of images. Well worth the effort, especially Charles Thacker's page.Fly by Wire
Website of Paul Rietbergen's amazing Dutch programme to not only get more young people flying control line, but also to integrate it into their education. Also the source of ARTF Carrier models.K&B engines
Legendary quick American engines from Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Also, MECOA, their parent company.Martin Hepperle
You want to know why propellers work? ...and the sums to prove it? Make a pot of tea, get comfy, and see some amazing theoretical calculations from an aerofoil expert.Hercules Model Airplane Class
American group devoted to introducing the young and the very young to Control Line. Includes plans for models you can build in a morning, and building tips. This is what we needed when WE were young...Just Engines
UK based engine supplier.Landres 2000
Site of the World Control Line Championships in 2000.Navy Carrier Society
An American site, run by Bill Calkins, President of the US Navy Carrier Society. Lots of information, and some great pix of Carrier models in flight.National Control Line Racing Association (NCLRA)
US site covering many aspects of fast things on wires. It is worth going for the home page alone, which sounds like you are being buzzed by a Bearcat, or at least something with a VERY big propeller on the front. Good instructional pages, including detailed "how-to's".Noam Levy
Site put up by a 17 year old Israeli C/L fan. (How many flyers of this age do YOU know?)...Novocastrian MAC
New site from well-known English C/L club. Contains a couple of good Combat comp write-ups.Goran Olsson
A man who is not only interested in Control Line, but also MIDI music and rockets (real ones!) Great site, lots of gossip and current Europen C/L news.Peter Nyffeler
Bilingual (English/German) Swiss site devoted to Control line matters. Contains plans and European Competition dates.SIG
Comprehensive US supplier of unique accessories and great kits.Southern California Control Line Association
Hosted by Fred Cronenwett, a sizeable site with lots to see, including scale and electronic control down the wires. Makes good use of good photographs, a rarity on the Web. The Carrier pages have some good pix, including details of a concrete deck. Now THAT would encourage gentle landings, but I still can't figure out how to turn it into wind... :)Stuka Stunt Works
A very well produced site, mostly devoted to stunt.Nogome Syoichiro
Our first Japanese bilingual C/L site. The Japanese half looks very strange in a UK browser.Wayne Trivin
US designer and builder of special racing engines. Great performance, I'm told, and they look good enough to eat!John Vlna
Editor of the US Navy Carrier Society newsletter. See Bill Calkins above.Michael Waller
Still growing UK based site covering every aspect of control line.
Full size aviation links
AeroSpace News
Good full size aviation site, with a VERY high standard of Picture of the Week, each and every week.AVWeb
Large US site dedicated to full size aviation, with a fantastic email newsletter. You heard it HERE first...Carriers of the US Navy
How big, how many, what colour is the touch-up paint etc. (Grey)HS-11
HS-11 is a US Navy Anti-Submarine Warfare Squadron. Has some great carrier pix.Carrier Ops software
Here you can download a 957Kb zip file for Windows95 and Windows98. It contains wallpaper, cursors, animated cursors, startup screens, shutdown screens and more on the theme of carrier flying ops. Hope it works for you, can't check it on my Mac...San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum
The USS Midway is being moved to San Diego to be the centrepiece of a museum devoted to aircraft carriers. Now THAT'S what I call a museum.USS Enterprise
When you are this powerful, you get to have your own website. Email them with helpful advice on carrier landing techniques... "Try warp six, Mister Sulu"USS Theodore Roosevelt
Another carrier with its own site.Will's military tech page
A plethora of links to all manner of sites, from Russian air power to Chinese Navy to things you hardly dreamt of.
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