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Helicopter Links / Newsgroups / H-List / Books

Note: I trimmed the Links down because a lot of pages keep changing their URLs. I'm too lazy to keep up. Besides each page has more links.

One of my favorites. Get your Politically Incorrect T-Shirts here:

Personal and Club HomePages

Jeff Kents' TSK Page .... TSK and New Orleans Flying Club
Helicopter Fever
LARKS in Sulphur, LA.
Littlerotors - lots of good stuff.
Cascade Model Helicopter Club ..... North of Seattle, WA.
Raptor Technique - Info on TT Raptor helis.

Business & Manufacturers HomePages

Microsoft for all the patches needed to run the lousy software.
Great browser and email client. Don't use any version later than 4.7x

Tower Hobbies .....the Mail Order Monster
Rick's Fancy Building Materials .....the Best Mail Order Heli Place - ask for Ron Lund
Heliproz .....excellent Helistore
Helihut .....grey market importer of Futaba and Raptor stuff. Super prices.
Hobby Lobby .....Importer of Eco and other german heli items.
Helicopter World .....Century Ninja and Hawk. Fuselages.
ACE Hobby ..... home of Thunder Tiger and the Raptor helis
OS Engines ..... Official Home page, specs, part #s etc.
Miniature Aircraft ..... Official MA Xcell Homepage.
Boomstrike.com ..... too lazy to paint the canopy? Get your vinyl color stickons here.

RC Related Bulletin Boards

Publications / Organizations

MHT .....Model Helicopter Technique - the best heli publication.
Rotory Modeler Magazine .... Full color RC Helicopter Magazine by Mike Mas
AMA Homepage .....Official AMA homepage.
Model Helicopter World ..... Great colorful and informative. Alas it's a British mag but you can subscribe to it in the US.
IRCHA .....International Radio Controlled Helicopter Association. Home of the Pilot Proficiency program

UseNet News Groups

NOTE: Your Internet provider must carry these Newsgroups on their server or you will get a 'Newsgroup not found' error. Bug your IP to carry them or you can go to Dejanews to read the archived messages.

Aircraft NewsGroup (rec.models.rc.air)
Helicopter NewsGroup (rec.models.rc.helicopter)
To get the Dejanews newsgroup, the following steps make it easy to read:

Go to the Dejanews server at http://www.google.com.
Go to "Advanced Group Search" and enter 'rec.models.rc.helicopter' into the Group field and a date (2 or 3 days prior to present one) into the Date field.

Helicopter Mailing Lists

Several mailing lists exist, addressing different manufacturers.
Raptor List:
raptorheli@topica.com
Raptor-60@yahoogroups.com
raptor@yahoogroups.com
Robbe / Schluter:
Schluter-list@yahoogroups.com
Robbe-Schluter@yahoogroups.com
Scale Helicopters:
Scale-helis@topica.com
Futaba 8U Radio:
8u@yahoogroups.com
Futaba 9Z Radio:
9z@yahoogroups.com