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Old 08-22-2019, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by 5x7
Don’t hold your breath that site has been out there for years. And it ironically says the previous venture failed because there is no market. Be aware the there is an Aerotech C3 and D2 in 18mm with a 10 second burn time so there are alternatives to jet-X vaporware.
Unless the videos on their website (at least one of which dates only to last November) were shot using models powered by Rapier motors, the Jet-X J-1 motor is already in existence, although not in quantity production yet. Also:

Depending on how much those long-burn Aerotech C3 and D2 18 mm motors cost, I'd be perfectly happy using them. (After World War II, especially in England, many large Jetex-type target aircraft were available as military surplus. It wasn't terribly different from the Aerotech Phoenix R/C rocket glider. The target had, if memory serves, swept wings and tail surfaces, a pod-and-boom fuselage [the boom was a dowel or an arrow shaft, I think], with a circular opening in the rear of the pod fuselage, into which a large Jetex-type motor had been fitted.)
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