08-16-2019, 04:11 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by Ez2cDave
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Thank you--I *thought* I had read that about the Rapier motors some years ago, but I wasn't positive. I have a shrink-wrapped (like some sausages) pack of green Rapier motors, which are a bit narrower and longer than Estes 13 mm mini motors. If one of the model rocket manufacturers would produce similar model jet motors, there is a market for them (some people make their own model jet motors, using--in some cases--"watered-down" sugar rocket propellant formulations [the "Incredible Five Cent Sugar Rockets" are even physically very similar to the Rapier motors, having rolled gummed-paper cases and simple modelers' clay nozzles]), and:
There are, surprisingly, still Jetex/Jet-X fuel pellets (jealously hoarded and sparingly used by F/F jet modelers, including at jet model meets). Also, the classic Jetex plane kits are still made by multiple companies (they offer "Retro-Repro" duplicates of the Keil-Kraft, FROG, and other Jetex kits), so if Estes, Quest, Klima, or another model rocket maker offered Rapier-type jet motors, there are plenty of kits that could use them. |