Links
Suppliers' sites
- Emax - full details of motors and ESCs
- MPJet motors - fortunately their products are a lot better than their web site
- Jamara - brushed motors
National associations
- BEFA - British Electric Flight Association, main specialist body for electric flight
- BMFA - British Model Flying Association, main national body for all aero-modelling
- BARCS - British Association of Radio-Controlled soarers, mainly pure gliders but also covers electric gliding competitions
Forums
- RCMF - Radio Controlled Model Flying huge general RC flying forum which includes a lot of electric flight coverage
- Model Flying (RCME) - growing forum from the RCME magazine again with a lot of electric flight coverage
- eSoaring.net - forum dedicated to the 200W/kg competition class but lots on electric gliders in general
- Fly Quiet - mainly for pure gliders but includes a big electric gliding section
- RCGroups - giant US forum with a lot of electric flight coverage. Includes the E Zone online magazine
- RC universe: Electric aircraft universe - another big US forum
Magazines
- QEFI - web site for the print magazine QEFI
- RCMW - web site for Radio Control Model World
- RCME - web site including forum and a lot of electric coverage for the print magazine RCME
- E Zone - huge US online electric flight magazine
Other good stuff
- Inter-Ex - truly inspirational site about the annual Inter-Ex experimental model aircraft meet. Mostly electric. 2008 meet is 6-7 Spt in Paris.
- History of model electric flight - Dave Day's history starts with a model from 1909
- Monster Models David Theunissen's list of huge electric models (and his site has other material on electric flight)
- Competition classes - scare yourself with the FAI pylon (F5D )and multi-task electric glider (F5B) classes (these are the British team sites). UK 200W/kg closer is far closer to sports modelling
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Full size electric flight is a growth area:
Electra claims to be the first electric powered light aircraft.
Helios Prototype - NASA's solar-powered flying wing is extraordinary (but the more model-like Qinetiq Zephyr holds duration record as of July 2008.)
Battery Vehicle Society site includes a number of electric aircraft.
History of electric flight is covered in Kitplanes Magazine. See also references to what seems to be the first full-size electric plane (built by Fred Militky) in Dave Day's model history above; and André Noth's history of solar-electric flight.
Antares 20E and Silent 2 are commercially available electric powered gliders and .
ElectraFlight - has commercial electric microlights
CAFE foundation held a 2008 symposium on electric flight
Jukka Tervamäki has an electric autogyro (though as yet only a virtual one).
Wikipedia entry on electric and solar aircraft is a useful one. - Not electric but just great - inspiration for your next model from the between-the-wars aeroplane inventions detailed at Rex Research