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3-View and Aircraft Resources

Rev.5 - 01-MARCH-2006

We've all asked several times for 3-views of this or that aircraft. In this respect, I am a pack rat. I collect links to sites offering 3-views and plans whether or not I ultimately use them. This is a collection of my favorite sources. I don't pretend to have "discovered" them, but I share them with fellow hobbysists. If you have a source that is not listed here, feel free to send me an e-mail.

Typically, I have three sources for my collection of plans and three views:

• On Line - web sites that have plans and 3-views for downloads.
• Commercial plan sites - These usually cater to modellers, but a plan is a plan, and prices tend to be reasonable.
• Books and Magazines. - Including scale modelling, flying (r/c, c/l, etc ) modelling, dedicated aviation magazines, and anthology books. Scale modelling magazines will usually have good scale drawings, plus details on colors, etc. Aviation magazines will usually have useful three view line drawings. The anthology books are the best, at least for the quantity of 3-view line drawings and other information you can get..

NOTE: this listing is by no means complete. Also, this page is directed towards sources of plans and 3-views. There are many other books, sites, and magazines that provide with excellent resources as to colors, camouflage, and other information.

Since my aviation interests tend towards "vintage" civilian and military aircraft so you will find that the sources in this initial listing lean in that direction.

Felix Rodriguez
Freeflight Design Shop
Pegasus Aviation Design
Orlando, FL
29-JULY-2002

On Line Resources

Plans

1. 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.
2. Sky Corner. Aviation Reference - Another Russian site, but this points to the English language pages.
3. Thomas Suurland's Blueprints - Aircraft plans and three views. Also vehicles (cars, tanks, APCs, boats) Main Menu, use navigation links to "Blueprints"
4. The Nieuport Page - with period scale plans of WW1 Nieuports. Also links to period drawings of other WW1 aircraft, engines, etc.
5. The Plan Page - Emphasis on flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale. Mostly vintage aircraft
6. Mike's flying scale model pages-links - Links to flying model plan sites.
7. Wherewolf Aircraft Drawings P.1 (Russian language) page with good scale plans.
   Wherewolf Aircraft Drawings P.2 (Russian Language)
8. 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
9. Arsenal - scale drawings page; Mostly modern Russian military aircraft.
10. Wings 2.11 - French site, with English summaries. Wings 2.11 is a modelling software, but this site has excellent 3-views. Navigate with the "3-vues" button
11. Czech Language scale plans and 3-views- If you rummage about the site, you'll also find other good stuff
12. Fighters of WW2 - Good scale drawings, may be a slow loading site.
13. K&W Model Airplanes, Inc. - Interesting site, information and scale plans in pdf format
14. Some Scale Model Plans - flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale
15. Mike's flying scale model pages-links flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale
16. dmlivesy-peanut plans flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale
17. The Plane CAD Page flying model plans, but some of the plans/drawings are to accurate scale
18. Free Flight Scale Plans by Derek Buckmaster DB Design Bureau Free-flight scale plans of Australian aircrafte

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3-Views

1. Eduardospage - I haven't counted them, but there appear to be several hundred, of all types. These three views are repeated in Thomas Suurland's Blueprints site also.
2. Otto vanBraam's - Blueprints Menu - Aircraft, cars, tanks, etc. - Quantity!!
3. Luft '46 Home Page - Dedicated to the German WW2 projects and prototypes - "what might have been"
4. Fixed-Wing Aircraft Museum - Several hundred 3-views, and information on world aircraft.
5. All the World's Rotorcraft - Information and 3-views on rotorcraft
6. Fiddlers Green Paper Models - While this site is a commercial site offering paper card models, their aircraft information/reference includes 3-views.
7. Aircraft Conceptual Design Drawings & Pictures - Not your run of the mill aircraft.
8. Welcome to Aircraft3-view! - Owen Hewitt's growing collection of three views, empahsizing modern aircraft.
9. Charles Bain's Historic Aircraft Page - at Simviation.
10. Russian Aviation Museum - A virtual museum of Russian aircraft, includes 3-views of most aircraft
11. Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War (in Spanish) - Spanish site, lots of information and most aircraft have 3-views
12. Current (US) Naval Aircraft Inventory - US Naval Aircraft 3-views and information
13. Fly High - (modern military) - Modern military aircraft 3-views and information
14. Beriev Aircraft Company - 3-views and information
15. Seawings - The Flying Boat Site - 3-views and information on seaplanes (mostly UK)
16. WAR Replicas (Homebuilts) - site of kitbuilt warbird replicas!
17. Watson Flight Services Ltd. - aircraft, kitplanes, airplanes, zenair, jabiru, avionics - kitbuilts, some 3-views
18. Welcome to Air Tractor in Olney, Texas - for the ag-plane buff in you!

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Commercial plan sites

1. Bob's Aircraft Documentation - The premier site, in my opinion, for plans/drawings. Bob Banka offers both drawings and photo paks. Downloadable catalog.
   
2. 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 magazine dropped the excellent column "A View from Here" that included a short history and a scale plan of a (usually) vintage aircraft. This and other r/c magazines may include usable scale plans from time to time.
• 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 - apart from the monthly review of current events in aviaion, frequently they feature in depth feature on current airplanes, including 3-views and cutaways.
• AIR Enthusiast - Air International but for the historical 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. I bought these two softcover books on a trip to Germany in 2000. I wish I had bought others. Vol.3 contains detailed scale plans of several jet fighters. Vol.4 contains detailed scale plans of several WW2 fighters.

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