Hello All,

I am posting this in the scale 'sub-forum' because the documents in question include scale data and construction techniques for models of rocket planes and missiles, which are relevant to boost-gliders, rocket gliders, and scale model rocketry in general.

Roger Simmonds (e-mail: rsimmo@globalnet.co.uk ), a long-time Jetex and Rapier F/F (Free-Flight) jet modeler in the UK, has published over one hundred articles on building & flying Jetex and Rapier models, between 2002 and 2013. He is offering them on CD for 12.00 pounds plus 5.00 pounds for international postage, for a total of 17.00 pounds (he accepts PayPal payments at the e-mail address given above). The attached Microsoft Word document contains the full details, including his postal address. Also:

He offers a cardstock Jetex/Rapier-powered scale kit of the Fairey Delta 2 (which could be converted to fly as a boost-glider, see: www.jetex.org/archive/jetxfiles/200309.shtml - it's at the bottom of the "screen-page"), as well as a book he wrote that's titled, "Aeromodelling the Fairey Delta F.D.2 in 1956."

I hope this information will be helpful.

Attached Files

Jetex.org articles.doc (218.5 KB, 51 views)

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Steve Bage offers his models for for free.

I'm sure you knew that.

http://www.ffscale.co.uk/rapgal6.htm

I've downloaded both the F-16 Falcon and the MIG 21 FishBed.

What I'd like to understand is why the this community of builders don't incorporate some of our building methods and parts such as body tubes and such for their designs?

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Indeed--I'm familiar with Steve's models as well; Roger's cardstock Fairey Delta 2 kit is pre-printed. Also:

The problem with using model rocket body tubes for Jetex/Rapier models is that the tubes are only practical for models of aircraft with cylindrical fuselages (such as the MQM-107 target drone, the Matador, Mace, and Snark cruise missiles, etc.). A few Jetex/Rapier modelers have successfully used body tubes as central structural "keels" of models, along which they glued transverse formers that, along with nose-to-tail stringers, formed the shapes of non-cylindrical fuselages.

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Regarding model rocket body tubes being used in Jetex/Rapier jet models, here is a photo (see: http://www.ffscale.co.uk/rapgal5.htm - at the bottom of the "screen-page") of a JB-2 Loon (the U.S. copy of the German Fi-103 "buzz bomb") Rapier-powered scale model, whose pulsejet engine appears to be made of model rocket body tubing.

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http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511
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There is a brand new Jetex motor and fuel pellets for sale on ebay right now.

I'll look for the listing.

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By "brand new," do you mean actually new, or NOS ("New Old Stock"), unopened and in pristine condition? (The last of the original English Jetex motors and fuel pellets were made in 1972, although imitation ones [some very good, such as the Japanese "Tiger" brand motors] may have been produced longer.) The reason why I ask is because there is talk in the Jetex/Rapier modeling community about a new, Jetex-type motor that is being developed by an Italian firm. Also:

In any event, I would be interested in seeing the listing. There are many Jetex motors "still in circulation" (as well as the 1990s-vintage "Jet-X" follow-on motors), and only the lack of a supply of new fuel pellets is holding back a comeback of Jetex. If some Chinese firm (maybe the company that makes the "Sky" model rocket kits and motors) would produce Jetex fuel pellets, there are plenty of existing Jetex and Jet-X motors around to use them. In addition:

For folks who would rather avoid the Jetex/Jet-X motor cleaning, Dr. Z's single-use, paper-cased Rapier motors (see: http://www.jetex.org/motors/motors-rapier.html , http://www.rapier.cz/ , and http://www.ffscale.co.uk/page4d.htm ) are "drop-in substitutes" for Jetex motors. While they are all but impossible to obtain in the USA and Canada right now (after the Czech government re-classified them as fireworks rather than as smoke generators), Jim Fackert recently pointed out on the "Jet-Ex-Press" Jetex/Rapier forum (see: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Jet-Ex-Press/info ) that the Rapier motors would be easier to import--*as* fireworks--than importing model rocket motors from foreign manufacturers.

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http://www.lulu.com/product/cd/what...of-2%29/6126511
All of my book proceeds go to the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre www.northcotehorses.com.
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