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Online Resources

Plans

• FSDome.com - Avition Encyclopedia - ~2000 aircraft with pictures, information and 3-view drawings.
• http//www.aviacherteg.narod.ru-index.html - If you understand Russian, this is one of several Russian language aircraft plan sites, covering WW1/Interwar, WW2, and modern/post WW2 military aircraft. These sites have detailed scale plans and camouflage/colors.
• Sky Corner. Aviation Reference - Another Russian site, but this points to the English language pages.
• Thomas Suurland's Blueprints - Aircraft plans and three views. Also vehicles (cars, tanks, APCs, boats).
• The Nieuport Page - with period scale plans of WW1 Nieuports. Also links to period drawings of other WW1 aircraft, engines, etc.
• The Plan Page - Emphasis on flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale. Mostly vintage aircraft.
• Mike's flying scale model pages-links - Links to flying model plan sites.
• Wherewolf Aircraft Drawings P.1 (Russian language) page with good scale plans.
  Wherewolf Aircraft Drawings P.2 (Russian Language)
• Chance Vought line drawings - Historical site with excellent plans of Chance Vought aircraft - from it's early days to the final A-7/F-8 series.
• Arsenal - scale drawings page; Mostly modern Russian military aircraft.
• Russian Aviation Drawings - zipped scale plans of Russian aircraft.
• Fighters of WW2 - Good scale drawings, may be a slow loading site.
• K&W Model Airplanes, Inc. - Interesting site, information and scale plans in pdf format.
• Some Scale Model Plans - flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale.
• Mike's flying scale model pages-links - flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale.
• dmlivesy-peanut plans - flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale.
• The Plane CAD Page - flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale.
• Free Flight Scale Plans by Derek Buckmaster - flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale.

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3-Views

• FSDome.com - Avition Encyclopedia - ~2000 aircraft with pictures, information and 3-view drawings.
• Eduardospage - several hundred, of all types. These three views are repeated in Thomas Suurland's Blueprints site also.
• Otto vanBraam's - Blueprints Menu - Aircraft, cars, tanks, etc. - Quantity!!
• Dan Johnson's Home Page - The home of Luft '46, dedicated to the German WW2 projects and prototypes - "what might have been"
• Fixed-Wing Aircraft Museum - Several hundred 3-views, and information on world aircraft.
• All the World's Rotorcraft - Information and 3-views on rotorcraft
• Fiddlers Green Paper Models - While this site is a commercial site offering paper card models, their aircraft information/reference includes 3-views.
• WWI Fighters - Information, 3-views with cross section of WW1 fighters
• Aircraft Conceptual Design Drawings & Pictures - Not your run of the mill aircraft.
• The Aircraft 3-View Page - Owen Hewitt's growing collection of three views, empahsizing modern aircraft.
• Aerosite - More than just 3-views.
• Russian Aviation Museum - A virtual museum of Russian aircraft, includes 3-views of most aircraft
• Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War (in Spanish) - Spanish site, lots of information and most aircraft have 3-views
• Current (US) Naval Aircraft Inventory - US Naval Aircraft 3-views and information
• WW2 Warbirds Index pages - Frans Bonn - WW2 Aircraft 3-views and information
• Fly High - (modern military) - Modern military aircraft 3-views and information
• Beriev Aircraft Company - 3-views and information
• Seawings - The Flying Boat Site - 3-views and information on seaplanes (mostly UK)
• WAR Replicas (Homebuilts) - site of kitbuilt warbird replicas!
• Watson Flight Services Ltd. - aircraft, kitplanes, airplanes, zenair, jabiru, avionics - kitbuilts, some 3-views
• Welcome to Air Tractor in Olney, Texas - for the ag-plane buff in you!

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Commercial plan sites

• Bob's Aircraft Documentation - The premier site, in my opinion, for plans/drawings. Bob Banka offers both drawings and photo paks. Downloadable catalog.
• James's Morrow Scale Drawings - plans directed to the flying scale modeller.

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Books and Magazines

Scale Modelling

• Scale Aviation Modeller International
• Scale Aircraft Modelling

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Flying Modelling

• Flying Models Magazine - This monthly magazine will usually include scale model plans, and an excellent column "A View from Here" that includes a short history and a scale plan of a (usually) vintage aircraft. Their website has a "3-view of the month" feature.
• Flying Scale Models
• Model Aviation - Official Publication of the Academy of Model Aeronautics
• Model Builder - Out of publication, but if you can get some of the old copies, they're gems.

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Aviation

• The Aeroplane Monthly - With their "database" feature, a specific aircraft is highlighted every month, with history, scale drawings, photos.
• AIR International
• AIR Enthusiast
• FlyPast!

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Books

• Complete Book of World War 2 Combat Aircraft - Angelucci/Matricardi/Pinto ISBN 0-7607-2873-9
• World Encyclopedia of Civil Aircraft - from Leonardo da Vinci to the Present Enzo Angelucci, Chartwell Books, Inc. ISBN 0-7858-1389-6
• Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft - 1914 to the Present, Enzo Angelucci, Chartwell Books, Inc. ISBN 0-7858-1359-4
• The Encyclopedia of Modern Warplanes Bill Gunston, Metro Books (2000), ISBN 1-58663-207-8
• Flying Colors Wm Green G. Swanborough. Barnes & Noble Reprint 1999; ISBN 0 7607 1136-4
• Aircraft Yearbook  3-View Drawings - 936 drawings of American aviation, airships, autogiros, balloons, biplanes, flying boats, gliders, civilian light planes, civilian commercial, military - all with orginal captions. Mail order from J W McDonald PO Box 23, Windom, Kansas 67491 USA  -  US$35+US$4. shipping (US) + US$8/other.
• The Complete Book of Fighters - An illustrated encyclopedia of every fighter built and flown. Wm Green.Gordon Swanborough; Barnes & Nobles Books; 1998. ISBN 0-0707-0904-1
• Modern Commercial Aircraft - Endres/Green/Swanborough/Mowinski Salamander Books Ltd. (London) 1998. ISBN 1 84065 022 2
• The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft: Barnes & Noble Reprint 1998; ISBN 0 7607 0592 5
• Paul Matt Scale Airplane Drawings (2 Volumes) - Available in book or CD from Aviation Heritage. Detailed scale drawings of a wide range of aircraft. Aviation heritage also contains other aviation books.
• Squadron/Signal Publications "In Action" and "Walk Around" Series - good source of history, information, photographs and three views.
• Jane's "All the World's Aircraft", "Fighting Aircraft of World War I", "Fighting Aircraft of World War 2" - The source for things aviation. "All the World's Aircraft" comes out yearly, it's expensive, but it's the authoritative source. The WW1 and WW2 editions indicated are reprints, in the WW1 case of the 1919 issue of "..World's Aircraft".
• Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide - A small, thick softcover book put out by Jane's It is a collection of three-views and sparse information on current aircraft both civil and military
• Flugzeugtypen - by Modellsport Verlag GmbH (Baden-Baden), 1999.

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