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May 1954 Model Airplane News

May 1954 Model Airplane News - Airplanes and Rockets

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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.

My only experience with Jetex engines with a No. 50B, and that was back in the early 1970s. It was attached to a dime store type Guillows glider - the king where the wing, stab, and fin slid into slits in the fuselage. Once the engine finally ignited, the glider took off with a cool hissing sound and headed skyward. The glider had been trimmed to fly smoothly with power off. I can remember having a heck of a time getting the crappy little piece of chemical-coated wire wick to stay lit as it passed through the Jetex's nozzle. Looking back from this perspective, I do believe I was fairly inept at a lot of things at the time, so maybe that was the entire problem. Maybe someday I'll pull my Jetex No. 50 from its package and determine whether I've gotten any better at simple things since then ;-)

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The Challenge of Jet Powered Flight

Clean design, careful construction and skilled workmanship ... these are the pride of the accomplished modeler. And it is these characteristics that pay such enjoyable dividends to users of Jetex engines. For the basic fact of jet power is this: Efficiency is proportional to speed. Thus minimum air resistance and weight of a model take the greatest advantage of the 800 m.p.h, thrust of a Jetex engine.

That is the challenge ... to build models which combine strength, streamlining and low weight ... to achieve maximum performance. Meet the challenge and you will be rewarded by thrilling performance and the enjoyment which only jet powered flight can offer.

Jetex Jet Engines

The world's smallest jet engine, most popular in the line; it is adaptable to practically any small model on the market. Price, complete with fuel, wick, instructions.

$1.95

Jetex No. 50B "Contest Special" - a sturdier version of the No. 50 "Standard", designed specifically for use with an augmenter tube.

Price, with fuel, wick, instructions, and 6-INCH

Augmenter Tube $2.95

Jetex No. 50 fuel-6 pellets with wick and spare washers $ .50

15 pellets with wick and spare washers. $1.00

Its streamlined proportions make this the ideal engine for average-size scale models of jet fighter planes. The 12-inch augmenter tube, available separately, may be used as a structural member of such models.

Price, complete with fuel, wick, instructions $4.95

12-inch augmenter tube for "Jetmaster" (may also be used with the No. 600 "Scorpion") $ .95

Jetex No. 150 "Red Spot" fuel-10 pellets with wick and spare washers $ .95

The newest, largest, and most efficient of the Jetex family; thrust is three times the total weight! A superlative engine for spectacular speed and performance.

Price, with fuel, wick, instructions, and 6-inch augmenter tube $8.95

Jetex No. 600 "Red Spot" fuel-10 pellets with wick and spare washers $1.95

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Articles About Engines and Motors for Model Airplanes, Boats, and Cars:

AT's Post-War Motor Roundup - September 1949 Air Trails
Motor of the Month: K&B Torpedo .049 Engine - November 1952 Air Trails
Mills "Brothers" - ½ Diesel Engines from England - January 1952 Air Trails
World's Smallest Mass-Produced Glow Plug Engine Unveiled by Cox - May 1961 American Modeler
Cameron .09 Marine Engine - July 1954 Air Trails
Electromotive Power Plants - March 1974 American Aircraft Modeler
Netzeband Reports on the Aero 35 Horizontal Piston Engine - October 1963 American Modeler
Wankel Engine Models - July-August 1963 American Modeler
Multi-Cylinder Engines - March 1967 American Modeler
Air Progress: The Jet Engine - July 1951 Air Trails
50-HT Hopped-Up Jetex - March-April 1963 American Modeler
Allyn .049 Sky Fury Engine Review - May 1954 Model Airplane News
CO2 Power is Coming Back - April 1969 American Aircraft Modeler
Cordless Electric Flight Motors - July 1973 American Aircraft Modeler
Cox Babe Bee .049 Engine - Operation & Troubleshooting Guide
Babe Bee: New Member of the Cox Family - April 1957 American Modeler
Cox Golden Bee .049 Engine - Photo of disassembled engine
Cox Thimble Drone PeeWee .020 Engine - Engine photo & operation sheet
Junior 451 / DP-03 CO2 Model Airplane Motor - Photos, user's guide, and video of it running
Designing a Ducted Fan - February 1971 American Aircraft Modeler
Ducted Fans! -- Scale-Like R/C Planes - March 1962 American Modeler
Dyna-Jet Engine - June 1957 American Modeler
Engine Idling Secrets (Part 1) | (Part 2)
November & December 1962 American Modeler
Engine Roundup - 1955 Air Trails Annual Edition
Eureka Importing Company "Tiger Jet" Ad - July 1957 American Modeler
Fox 15 C/L Engine - Photo of my 1st engine bigger than a Cox .049
Fox 35 C/L Stunt Engine - Photo of my next C/L engine,
Fox 40 R/C Advertisement - April 1962 American Modeler
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines! - August 1969 American Aircraft Modeler
Global Engine Review - 1963 Annual Edition American Modeler
Hot Engines! - January/February 1963 American Modeler Article
How Bill Wisniewski Reworks His Engines - June 1957 American Modeler
How to Select the Proper Glow Plug ... and Why - 1963 Annual Edition American Modeler
Inside the Two-Cycle Engine - February 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
Iron Curtain Engines - Da? Nyet? - August 1962 American Modeler
Jetex Jet Engine Ad - May 1954 Model Airplane News
Jetex Motors & Fuel Pellets - Photos of my collection of motors
Johnson Engines Continue on Improvement Program - February 1957 American Modeler
Powerplant Revue: Hi's Radio Mill Proves Potent Yet Docile .35 - February 1962 American Modeler
McCoy .35 Red Head C/L Engine - Photos of my engine and the user's sheet
Model Motor Museums (Part 1) | (Part 2)
November & December 1959 American Modeler
Netzeband Reports on a Horizontal Piston Engine
September/October 1963 American Modeler
Norvell .15BB Revlite C/L Engine - Photos of my engine
O.S. 25 LA Engine - Photos of my engine
Outboard Model Boat Motors - Advertisements of many different outboards
Rubber Motor Testing - August 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
There's a Wankel in Your Future - June 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
Thimble-Drome Piper Super Cub 105 - October 1957 American Modeler
The Visible Wasp Airplane and V-8 Automobile Engines - Advertisements
The Wright Cyclone 9 Radial Aircraft Engine - by Monogram

Posted February 2, 2014



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