Northwest Soaring Clubs and Organizations:

• NWSS The Northwest Soaring Society (NWSS), promotes R/C soaring competition in the Pacific Northwest through Northwest soaring clubs. Most of the contests are two events held throughout the summer.
• SSS The Salem Soaring Society (SSS), located in Salem, OR.
• SASS The Seattle Area Soaring Society (SASS), located in Seattle, WA.
• SOSS The Southern Oregon Sailplane Society (SOSS), located in the Medford, OR area.
• IESS The Inland Empire Soaring Society (IESS), located in Spokane, WA.

Other Soaring Clubs and Organizations:

• KCSE Kansas City Soaring and Electric (KCSE). Bernie's new home!
• AMA Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA)
• LSF League of Silent Flight (LSF)
• LSF League of Silent Flight - PASS Member standings (LSF)
• LES League for Electric Soaring (LES)
• TPG Torrey Pines Gulls
• ESL Eastern Soaring League (ESL)
• ISSA International Scale Soaring Association (ISSA)
• BARCS British Association of Radio Control Soarers (BARCS)
• IMSF InterMountain Silent Flyers (IMSF)
• GASS Gainsville Area Soaring Society (GASS)
• PSS Pasadena Soaring Society (PSS)
• LISF Long Island Silent Flyers (LISF)
• SLNT Soaring League of North Texas (SLNT)
• CSR California Slope Racers (CSR)

Handlaunch Glider Related, including DLG, TLG, SAL, etc:

• Garton DLG web sites listed in Mike Garton's June 2001 Model Aviation Article
• LHA HLG Launch Height Analysis -- including DLG launch height analysis!
• Raptor Raptor Aerosports high quality composite HLG's
• TGW Thermal-Gromit Works
• < a href="http://www.charlesriverrc.org/articles/kahudlg/chriskaiser_kahudlg.htm">Kahu Chris Kaiser's Kahu DLG
• UpLink 58 Dick Barker's UpLink 58 DLG
• DLG D&C DLG Design & Construction Techniques

Slope Soaring Related Sites:

• ASRO American Slope Racing Organization
• GK GliderKing - an online source for slope soaring information
• DS Dynamic Soaring - primer and a personal web page

Soaring References and Databases:

• UIUC Michael Selig -- Airfoil Research
• SCYP Sailplane Contact Yellow Pages
• Clubs RC Soaring's list of RC soaring clubs
• SHIF See How It Flies - aerodynamics for pilots without deep math or physics
• METR The METR 151 Class Page. Check out sections 5,7,8,11, 12,13,14,23 for a good look at principles surrounding thermals
• Knots Learn how to join two end of a broken winch line at this site...

Flying-Model-Simulator:

• FMS Flying-Model-Simulator home page (English website version)
• Models FMS downloadable model aircraft (English website version)
• More Models FMS downloadable model aircraft (German website )

Weather:

• GWD Gorge Wind Data

Soaring Magazines:

• S&E Sailplane & Electric Modeler Magazine
• RCSD Radio Control Soaring Digest
• EZone Electric flight virtual magazine

Manufactures:

• WD Winch Doctor -- Real Balls, winches, other cool winch stuff and wisdom
• Aveox Aveox brushless electric motors
• RnR Products composite aircraft
• Skybench Aerotech Makers of nostalgia kits
• Dreamcatcher/a> Hobbies Makers of nostalgia kits
• Hitec RCD Value radios
• Peak Electronics, Inc. -- Home of the SIRIUS CHARGE Pro Series
• Volz Servos
• JK Aerotech Durable, inexpensive, "foamies" airplane kits for combat or sport flying
• Combat Wings. Specialize is RTF combat wings and kits, both glider and electric.

Suppliers:

• ShredAir Go-Fast sailplanes
• F3X F3B, F3J, F3F performance composite models
• Hollyday Designs (Home of "Switch-Jacks")
• NSP Northeast Sailplane Products
• Tammies Hobbies in Beaverton Oregon
• SSC Supermodel Sailplane Company
• Multiplex
• RCA Radio Carbon Art RC soaring and electric flight videos
• RPV Industries R/C Soaring Products
• LBW Little Big Winch
• Sheldon's Hobbies
• Tower Hobbies

Auctions & Classified Ads:

• eBay Sailplane and glider listings on eBay
• RC Pages Classified photo ads for RC modelers
• RC Online classified ads

Other Interesting Sites:

• Windcrafters Inc. Think outside the blimp
• MAS Miniature Aviation Showcase, Noel Martin's interesting modeling collection that you can visit in McMinville, OR
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
• NTRS NASA Technical Reports
• DFRC NASA Dryden Research Aircraft Photos
• NASM National Air and Space Museum
• DDave Dangerous Dave's Handmade Composite Stuff
• SISD Soaring Information and Sailplane Directory
• RiversWest Small Craft Center