"Albatrosses at Work" Dynamic Soaring Site
(a great explanation of dynamic soaring with an animated GIF showing how it's done)

"Performance Analysis of a Family of R/C Thermal Sailplanes"
A paper evaluating the effect of minimum sink rate, span, and aspect ratio on conventional R/C sailplanes.

Aerosonde North Atlantic Crossing Site
(the Aerosonde is the first robotic vehicle to successfully cross the North Atlantic - good information on the design and project)

Aircraft Design Sources
(a compilation by W. H. Mason at Virginia Tech)

Anodizing at Home
a how-to article by Jim Bowes showing how to anodize your own parts

Applied Aerodynamics: A Digital Textbook
(the demonstration site for an on-line aerodynamics text available on CD-ROM - several sections are presented in the demo)

Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
(see the individual icons on this main page for Air, Ground and Undersea Vehicles)

B2 Streamlines
(Bill and Bunny Kuhlman)

Chris Fouquet's Vacuum Bagging How-To Page

Density Altitude Calculator
(an on-line web calculator)

Downed Model Locator Circuit
(George Steiner)

EH Airfoils
(tailless-optimized airfoils by John Yost)

Envision Design
(home of the Plane Geometry software package)

FAI Timekeeping System
(Mike Lachowski's information page on his electronic event tracking system)

K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
(A GREAT site with a full curriculum for teaching kids kindergarten through eighth grade about aeronautics.  Lesson plans, examples, teaching guides - wow!)

LiftRoll Download Site
(John Hazel's Excel spreadsheets for calculating the lift distribution of wing designs "liftroll.xls" and the expected flight path of a hand-launch RC glider, based on design parameters "rchl.xls")

Martin Hepperle's Airfoils Pages

MatWeb
("Your Source for Materials Information" - searchable database by material type, trade name, manufacturer, property, metal composition)

MicroMo Electronics
(a manufacturer of electric motors

MicroMo Electronics - data sheet
click here to check out an interesting data sheet - 21kb PDF

MicroPilot Products
Steven Sarns' Programmable UAV

MLB
(a producer of unmanned, autonomous airplanes and helicopters 'micro air vehicles')

Moller International
(creator of the Aerobot UAV and SkyCar)

NASA FoilSim Software Site
(FREE airfoil simulation software, and a great "intro to aerodynamics" site)

NASA LERC "Beginners Guide to Aerodynamics"

NASA Lewis Research Center

NASA Tech Briefs online
(click the Online Tech Briefs button on the main page - the Mechanics section on the online tech briefs page often has interesting aero-related articles, such as the February 1999 article "Analysis of Flutter of the APEX Sailplane")

NASG Airfoil Research

Panknin Twist Formula
(method formulated by Dr. Walter Panknin for determining wing twist, or washout, for tailless aircraft)

Preliminary Design of a Long-Endurance Mars Aircraft
(yes, a NASA technical paper outlining the initial design of a solar-powered aircraft for operation in the Martian atmosphere!)

Pressure-Sensor Based Altimeter Circuit
(by Paoli Zini)

Role of Wind Tunnels at NASA
A page reviewing the history of wind tunnels and wind tunnel research at NASA.

Sage Action Inc
A company specializing in bubble generator systems, used for flow visualization and wind tunnel research.

Scale Speed for Model Aircraft
(a technical analysis of how to attain scale velocity for small models - on our site in the articles section)

Stanford "MesiCopter" Project Site
("A Meso-Scale Flight Vehicle for Atmospheric Research" - this one puts a new spin on TINY!)

Stanford Aircraft Aerodynamics and Design Group

Stanford OnLine Wing Analysis Program
(a java program that calculates and charts lift and Cl distribution over a wing with sweep and twist!)

Systron Donner Inertial Division - BEI Sensors and Systems
(manufacturer of intertial sensors and subsystems - interesting pages on gyro theory in their product information pages)

Virginia Tech Subsonic Wind Tunnel site
(research on tip vortices, lifting wakes and other fluid dynamics issues)

Vision Guided Flight for Micro Air Vehicles

Wing Geometry and Lift Distribution
(a page on the Desktop Aeronautics site - demo of their Desktop Aeronautics CD)