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June 1957 American Modeler

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June 1957 American Modeler Table of Contents

These pages from vintage modeling magazines like Flying Aces, Air Trails, American Modeler, American Aircraft Modeler, Young Men, Flying Models, Model Airplane News, R/C Modeler, captured the era. All copyrights acknowledged.

Dyna-Jet Advertisement from the Dyna-Jet Engine - June 1957 American Modeler - Airplanes and RocketsHere are a couple videos of pulse jet engines being run. The top one is a home-made pulse jet engine mounted on an R/C Long EZ. The bottom video presents a short tutorial on how the Dyna-Jet is built, how it is made, and how to start it.

Here is an article in the 1946 issue of Popular Science magazine entitled "Baby V-1 Jet Flies for Fun," which may be one of the first mentions of the Dyna-jet engine, which was developed by William Tenney and Charles Marks of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was later marketed in the 1950s by a company named Curtis Automotive Devices manufactured the now-coveted Dyna-Jet engine (they typically sell for >$400 on e-Bay --- if you can find one).

Are they still around today? Yep, only the company name is now Curtis Dyna-Fog. One of the first pulse-jet products aerospace engineer Russell Curtis produced was the Dyna-Jet "Red Head" miniature engine for use in model rocketry (per their website).

This advertisement was scanned from page 57 of the June 1957 edition of American Modeler.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator the $35.00 price in 1957 would be $339 in 2021 money.

 

 

Below is the e-Bay auction mentioned.

DynaJet sold on eBay October 2009 - Airplanes and Rockets

DynaJet sold on eBay October 2009

DynaJet spark plug close-up,
 sold on eBay October 2009

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Posted October 20, 2021
(updated from original post on 11/27/2010)

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