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Aviation History, General
Aviation History, Lawrence Hargrave

Balloons and Ballooning

Rockets and Rocketry

Kites and Kiting

Gliding, Models
Gliding and Ultralight Aircraft

'Slow' and 'Park' Flyers
Paper Airplanes

All sites listed below were active on September 12, 2000. Please report any broken links - suggestions for additional links are also most welcome.

Aviation History, General

Aero Design Team Online: Wright Flyer: Wright Brothers
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/background/1899.html

Aeronautics - The Beginning
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/wings2.htm

Aeronautics, Principles of    Notable Site
http://wings.ucdavis.edu/Book/instructor.html

Association "Mémoire de l'Air"
http://www.newtech.fr/mdla/index.htm

Aviation Firsts [Chronology of American aviation firsts]
http://aerofiles.com/chrono.html

Aviation History
http://www.aviation-history.com/

Cayley, Sir George
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/cayley.htm

Daedalus: The Long Odyssey from Myth to Reality
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1988/6/88.06.10.x.html#f

Digital Library of Flight    Notable Site
http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/library/library.html

First Flight - UK
http://firstflight.open.ac.uk/default.html

First Flight - Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr019.html

Flapping Flight
http://www.catskill.net/evolution/flight/

Flights of Inspiration
http://sln.fi.edu/flights/index.html

Histoire de l'Aviation, L'
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/pres-etab/lapicque/Opinfo98/Arnoux/

Langley's Aerodrome - by David Dodge
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar2/Langley.htm

Octave Chanute Pages, The    Notable Site
http://www.crown.net/~sspicer/chanute/chan_ind.html

Précurseurs, Les
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/pres-etab/lapicque/Opinfo98/Arnoux/precurseurs.htm

Royal Aeronautical Society, The
http://www.raes.org.au

"The [Royal Aeronautical] Society was founded as the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain in 1866 with 65 members by the Duke of Argyll. It became the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1918. Australia was first mentioned in 1892 when Lawrence Hargrave was experimenting with cellular kites. He was made a life member in 1897 and gave his paper on box kites in 1899. In 1919 the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers emerged."

San Diego Aerospace Museum
http://www.AerospaceMuseum.org/Exhibit.HTML

Tale of the Airplane
http://wam.umd.edu/~stwright/WrBr/taleplane.html

To Fly is Everything    Notable Site
http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/air_main.shtml

Yahoo: Science/Aviation-and-Aeronautics/History/
http://ca.yahoo.com/Science/Aviation_and_Aeronautics/History/

Aviation History, Lawrence Hargrave

Australian Kite Association    Notable Site
http://www.kites.org/aka/hargrave/hargrave.html

Hargrave's Boxkite
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kites/boxkite.htm

Lawrence Hargrave: Australian Kiting Pioneer
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kites/lawrence.htm

Balloons and Ballooning

Aerophile
http://www.aerophile.com/2001/uk/index_uk.php3

Rockets and Rocketry

Cruise Missiles: a Brief History
http://www.cdiss.org/cmhist.htm

A History of Rocketry Part I: Ancient Times up to World War II
http://www.spaceline.org/rockethistory.html

A History of Rocketry [Part II]: (Post-WWII)
http://www.spaceline.org/rocketpostww.html

Strategic and Tactical Missiles
http://www.afa.org/magazine/gallery/kettering.html

For a detailed essay on the history of rocketry and missiles please visit the dedicated page elsewhere on this site

Kites and Kiting

American Kite Fliers Association, The
http://www.aka.kite.org/

American Kite (Magazine)
P.O. Box 699
Cedar Ridge, CA 95924-9984
USA

Australian Kite Association    Notable Site
http://www.aka.org.au/

Australian Kite Flyers Society, The
http://www.moreinfo.com.au/aks/

Cerf-volant Kite Les bons plans Mizt'Ailes
http://home.nordnet.fr/~jmillecamps/miznet/bonplan.htm

Christophe Gronier : Kite Plans
http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/2826/cerfsvplans.html

DrachenArchiv
http://www.drachenarchiv.de

History of Kites, The
http://users.skynet.be/belgian-kite-page/history.htm

History of Kites and Kite Flying
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/4569/history.htm

Kite Collection, Japanese
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~et3m-tkkw/index.html

Kites - The KAP Site    Notable Site
http://www.geocities.com/kites_site/index.htm

Kel's Microkite
http://home.rconnect.com/~kitenut/

Kites in the Classroom
http://www.aka.org.au/kites_in_the_classroom/

Peter's Kite Site
http://www.win.tue.nl/~pp/kites/

Pioneer kites
http://freespace.virgin.net/rob.green/greens/home/pioneer/index.htm

Power Kite Site, The - Links
http://www.kites.org/jo/links.html

TMR`s Kite Site of Life
http://www.snafu.de/~thomiru/index.html

Gliding, Models

League of Silent Flight of Australia
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~lsfaust/

ICARE Sailplanes - Scale glider, Electric
http://www2.jonction.net/~icare/icare.htm

Model Aeronautical Association of Australia (MAAA)
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~maaa/index.html

R/C Soaring
http://www.rc-soar.com/

Gliding and Ultralight Aircraft

"...after the First World War, the Germans were not allowed to build planes, [...] only gliders. So their technological advance in the building of gliders began and they are still ahead today. This was the second birth of gliding thanks to German people. In 1936, during one of the darkest period in world history, gliding reached its highest level: gliding was an event in the Berlin Olympic Games. So, after the war, gliding was considered a nazi sport and was suppressed from the events of Olympic Games. One more time, a war had wounded gliding."

What is Gliding: http://www.power.nl/tulip99/general/gliding.htm

Australian Soaring
http://www.aus-soaring.on.net/

Australian Ultralight Federation
http://www.auf.asn.au/

Colditz Glider, The
http://www.colditz-4c.com/glider.htm

associated sites

Replica proves Colditz glider was a winner
http://www.telegraph.co.uk CACHED 17.03.00

Colditz Glider, The
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/8963/glider.html

Introduction to AirplaneDesign: Featured Glider Designs, Tips, and Ideas
http://www.Seeds2LRN.com/airIndex.html#gliders

SAGHT Gliding Movement: History
http://aus-soaring.on.net/saht_10a.htm

'Slow' and 'Park' Flyers

"Slowflyers fly slow. They have very large wing areas and are extremely light weight which allows for wingloadings in the one to three ounce per square foot range. Most of these models have a minimal amount of structure. [...] The basic design for slowflyers is a single surfaced highly undercambered wing with a carbon tube fuselage and balsa or carbon tail surfaces. These models are best suited for indoor flying or in early morning / late evening dead calm air conditions"

http://www.toddsmodels.com/

Don Slusarczyk Indoor Web Page, The
http://www.indoorfreeflight.com/

Dragonfly, The
http://www.nesail.com/dragonfly.html

Dreaming Aeroplanes
http://parallel.park.org/Japan/Hitachi/fushigi_tours/flight_e/station.html

E Zone    Notable Site
http://www.ezonemag.com

Folding Flyer: The Low Cost Radio Controlled Airplane!
http://rrnet.com/~chemmah/foldingflyer/

Free-Flight Model Airplanes
http://www.luminet.net/~bkuhl/rubber.htm

Frontroom Flyables
http://www.intergate.bc.ca/business/flyables/index.htm

Future is Electric, The
http://members.aol.com/kmyersefo/page3.htm#TOP

High Voltage: The World of R/C Flight
http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/flight.html

Hobby Club - kit and equipment supplies
http://www.hobbyclub.com/

Indoor Flying
http://www.multimania.com/yannick/

Kai´s Modellflugseite
http://home.t-online.de/home/e-huber/

'Indoor' (flight) English - French - German 'model aviation' dictionary

http://www.ezonemag.com/articles/1998/jul/wiw/wiw0798.htm

http://www.ezonemag.com/articles/1998/aug/kolibri/kolibri.htm

http://www.ezonemag.com/articles/1998/sep/wiw/wiw0998.htm

"Kolibri is the German name for the smallest bird "humming bird" on earth. All of our Slow Flyers have a birds/bug/insect name and since the Kolibri is mainly built from Carbon which is "Kohle" in German the name sounds funny, at least to a German because it is light weight, small, dynamic and made from Kohle"

Walter Scholl

Matt's Micro Planes
http://rcplanet.com/mattsmicroplanes/

Penaud's Planaphore - a full size replica
http://ohtm.org/penaud.html

SAMS Aeromodeller's Handbook
http://www.samsmodels.demon.co.uk/handbook.html

Slow and Park Flyers from 'Hobby Lobby'
http://hobby-lobby.com/

Specialist SlowFly equipment - WES Technics
http://www.idnet.de/homepage/scholl/

Stubenfliege - (lit. 'House Fly', act. 'flyer for indoor use')
http://www.braunmod.de/eproduktb.htm

More: Wayne Hadkins Indoor World - July 1998

Todd's Models
http://www.toddsmodels.com

Tweety Bird - Flying Wing
http://www.luminet.net/~bkuhl/tweety.htm

Twin Pushers
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar2/Homepage2.htm

Dannysoar -Home
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/home.htm

Paper Airplanes

Alex Schultz
http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/

http://www.geocities.com/bgaschultz/mainplan.html

http://dmoz.org/Arts/Crafts/Origami/Paper_Airplanes/

McEagle Styrofoam Glider
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/TRC/Aeronautics/GLIDER.html

mcshane's planes
http://www.mcshane.org/planes/

Paper airplane - The best paper airplane in the world !
http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html

Paper Airplane Aerodynamics
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1817/paero.html

Paper Airplanes
http://www.pchelp.net/planes.htm

Paper Airplane Science
http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/explorer-db/html/783750895-447DED81.html