Had a jetex 50 in the old days and put it in a Keilcraft Cub. It flew beautifully, had many a happy hour flying that plane, however money was short in those childhood days and had to save up for those jetex pellets. Precious memories.
British free-flight should be broadcast live on every sports channel, with major sponsors helping the modellers with financing their aircraft! Everybody would watch!
I burned a LOT of Jetex prllets when I was a kid. A Jetex 50 was $1.90. Just loads of fun and educational as you had to work out CG, bslance under thrust, etc. Out library had two books with dozens of models for the various sized Jetex engines. The '50s were good.
Hi John, I'm the pratt in the blue shirt. Yes, It all looks like a free for all with no safety net. Looks can be deceiving, It's a small aerodrome and we're all insured, no one is sleeping and we all know what to expect. In twenty years we haven't had so much as a wasp sting and even at 100 degrees F never had a grass fire. Looks fun doesn't it... we're the vulture squadron... All the best. Andy.
Totally agree! It is soooo cool! Lived in Switzerland before, quite a liberal country (people are grownups so why tell them anything about how to go on with their fun) but maybe not as crazy as the British, but now in France, where everyone is scared about everything and nothing fun is allowed without special insurance, regulation or proving your place of residence by providing a copy of the electricity bill :D :D :D ...
UK. a long time ago (a very, very long time) I was a toddler out catching grasshoppers to pull their legs off when I happened across a couple of blokes (adults) with their model helicopter. This had a Jetex motor (as I later knew them) at each tip of the two-blade rotor. They set it down on the ground, lit the Jetexes and retired, it fell on one side and the rotor flew off anywhere - at speed, never to be seen again. Certainly less than three years old, I already knew better than them - it did exactly as I knew it would. When it came to my teens, I didn't waste my time or pocket money on those. Along with my friend, we set a trap for wasps - a saucer of strawberry jam with just enough water poured on it to create a puddle and awaited our prey which came in numbers - to be rescued from the jam trap and added to the pile for live cremation in methylated spirits. Earlier that summer with my two brothers we had wandered into grounds containing several long greenhouses. We got sticks and happily walked along smashing every single window. A man shouted, we ran and lay down in the grass to hide - too late, he shouted that he could see us and we had to give our names and addresses which, scared silly, we did. And awaited the wrath of our father - which never came. I will go to Hell, I know that.
I had a couple of Jetex motors in the early 70s, no matter how I tried I never actually got one to fire up, as soon as the lit fuse wire entered the motor it would always go out, still, loved building the planes.
What fun. We have what are called bottle rockets we let off during our Diwali festival celebration. It is a cylindrical capsule with the solid combustion fuel inside. This is that on a long stick. Stick is put in a bottle to keep rocket vertical. Light the wick and it fires the rocket. This Ithink can be inserted in a metal holder under the jet. Must try.
The jetex motors we had in the states back in the 60s and 70s were a really pain in the butt to use, had no duration and the gaskets wore out on the first flight with no possibility of obtaining more. They were not a real fond memory. It seems they perfected them by now, especially in the UK.
There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13
Fields of badly dressed British men in wildly unstylish headgear, I love it. And I was taken here after just watching the opening 8 minutes of “The Battle of Britain” on RU-vid. “Oh for God’s sake Jamie, give your brain a chance!”
Fields of badly dressed British men in wildly unstylish headgear, I love it. And I was taken here after just watching the opening 8 minutes of “The Battle of Britain” on RU-vid. “Oh for God’s sake Jamie, give your brain a chance!”
There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13
There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13
There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13
There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13
There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13
Bit late to the party, but these are a mixture of Rapier and Jetex engines. Rapiers were single use, Jetex and Jet-X motors were reusable, both used a solid fuel mixture based on Guanadine Nitrate. Getting hard to find now, I'm a toy dealer in the UK and have a reasonable selection of Jetex and Jet-X products for sale, but for shipping inside the UK only as the fuel is now classed as an explosive and will be seized by any customs officers who encounter it. Boo-hiss.
Excuse me. But, do I understand correctly? Did you people light a bunch of stuff on fire and then throw it, completely uncontrolled, in a field of dry grass surrounded by woods?I'm just asking.
