Model Jets at Old Warden Scale Weekend July 2018

Free flight model jet flying at Old Warden Scale Weekend July 2018 includes Rapier, Jetex and electric ducted fan.

[@f4udhorn]

British free-flight should be broadcast live on every sports channel, with major sponsors helping the modellers with financing their aircraft! Everybody would watch!

[@lenburns6287]

Had a jetex 50 in the old days and put it in a Keilcraft Cub. It flew beautifully, had many a happy hour flying that plane, however money was short in those childhood days and had to save up for those jetex pellets. Precious memories.

[@davebrown1861]

How I love to watch British free flight...the mayhem and chaos and total disregard for spectator safety! There's nothing better!

[@madeinfonddugarage5988]

j'aurais pas dit mieux. :D

[@pompeltube]

Totally agree! It is soooo cool! Lived in Switzerland before, quite a liberal country (people are grownups so why tell them anything about how to go on with their fun) but maybe not as crazy as the British, but now in France, where everyone is scared about everything and nothing fun is allowed without special insurance, regulation or proving your place of residence by providing a copy of the electricity bill :D :D :D ...

[@pompeltube]

en effet! :)

[@Yosemite-George-61]

@@madeinfonddugarage5988 yep... we can't even fly Estes rockets any mo'...

[@chrisbell5032]

@@pompeltube The world today.

[@Craig52-zq1bt]

I burned a LOT of Jetex prllets when I was a kid. A Jetex 50 was $1.90. Just loads of fun and educational as you had to work out CG, bslance under thrust, etc. Out library had two books with dozens of models for the various sized Jetex engines. The '50s were good.

[@wun1gee]

This is really neat! I've never seen this aspect of freeflight before. Something like this would be really fun for micro-RC.

[@hotdogpilot6319]

Hi John, I'm the pratt in the blue shirt. Yes, It all looks like a free for all with no safety net. Looks can be deceiving, It's a small aerodrome and we're all insured, no one is sleeping and we all know what to expect. In twenty years we haven't had so much as a wasp sting and even at 100 degrees F never had a grass fire. Looks fun doesn't it... we're the vulture squadron... All the best. Andy.

[@geoffreyallen888]

UK. a long time ago (a very, very long time) I was a toddler out catching grasshoppers to pull their legs off when I happened across a couple of blokes (adults) with their model helicopter. This had a Jetex motor (as I later knew them) at each tip of the two-blade rotor. They set it down on the ground, lit the Jetexes and retired, it fell on one side and the rotor flew off anywhere - at speed, never to be seen again. Certainly less than three years old, I already knew better than them - it did exactly as I knew it would. When it came to my teens, I didn't waste my time or pocket money on those. Along with my friend, we set a trap for wasps - a saucer of strawberry jam with just enough water poured on it to create a puddle and awaited our prey which came in numbers - to be rescued from the jam trap and added to the pile for live cremation in methylated spirits. Earlier that summer with my two brothers we had wandered into grounds containing several long greenhouses. We got sticks and happily walked along smashing every single window. A man shouted, we ran and lay down in the grass to hide - too late, he shouted that he could see us and we had to give our names and addresses which, scared silly, we did. And awaited the wrath of our father - which never came. I will go to Hell, I know that.

[@geoffg46]

I had a couple of Jetex motors in the early 70s, no matter how I tried I never actually got one to fire up, as soon as the lit fuse wire entered the motor it would always go out, still, loved building the planes.

[@alcourtines4707]

I had a sport model by Jetco, back in the day. This vid reminds me of the ammonia fumes.

[@MrJetexjim]

Wow! Some of the best video I've seen of F/F models in flight. And these are Jetex/Rapier types. SEhr güt!

[@M5guitar1]

I have a Jetex motor from the 70's. I flew it once ...it took a nice spiral through the air then into the ground.

[@peterjensen3162]

When safety isn’t a issue- Love this 🥰

[@bbelcher4355]

The ONLY time gf will see ANYTHING resembling genuine FREEDOM at any event in theüñ U.K.

[@Helliconia54]

love the jetex had one in the late 60's

[@stephencaparelli7733]

were the electric DFs free flight?

[@cas-jv1dr]

This is my childhood. Rocket model club Praha 7.

[@andrewjarvis3516]

I think the cameraman is a genius to follow these tiny whizzers!

[@iamanon4u]

All those people! I've never been to any flying day with more than eight.

[@ojsefg]

It’s a flippin free for all with no regard to who gets a plane to the dome! Sign me up!!!

[@anantnarayanan9773]

What fun. We have what are called bottle rockets we let off during our Diwali festival celebration. It is a cylindrical capsule with the solid combustion fuel inside. This is that on a long stick. Stick is put in a bottle to keep rocket vertical. Light the wick and it fires the rocket. This Ithink can be inserted in a metal holder under the jet. Must try.

[@royalanania3306]

Beautiful 😉

[@michaelwhinnery164]

Sadly ,not a lot of youngsters participating

[@Yosemite-George-61]

Nice ! Maybe I can come some day... Cheers !

[@japboon310]

Unfortunately we can't get these stuff in Australia😥

[@team01shakenbake]

So is anyone injured during these shows?

[@nevillecreativitymentor]

This is incredible ...how do we build this ?

[@jbbolts]

there are kits or you can scratch build... the engines are hard to acquire they are made in small batches ...not sure if they still make them

[@jonlobello7151]

The jetex motors we had in the states back in the 60s and 70s were a really pain in the butt to use, had no duration and the gaskets wore out on the first flight with no possibility of obtaining more. They were not a real fond memory. It seems they perfected them by now, especially in the UK.

[@herzigfrancois5444]

Hello, What engines do you use to propel your micro jets? Are there construction plans? Thank you in advance for your answers.

[@jbbolts]

rapier enginns and the planes are either scratch built or kits... u can find some on ebay still

[@piotrtendera1250]

There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13

[@nsoulphil]

Had The Jetex kit's 50years ago, wish I could get these again. Anyone know if you can still get them ?

[@Runestaff1960]

Can still be found on eBay also check out jetex.org

[@piotrtendera1250]

There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13

[@deedeestone3837]

@@piotrtendera1250 How do their sizes compare to the Rapier? And can they be legally shipped to US?

[@PhilbyFavourites]

Fields of badly dressed British men in wildly unstylish headgear, I love it. And I was taken here after just watching the opening 8 minutes of “The Battle of Britain” on KZbin. “Oh for God’s sake Jamie, give your brain a chance!”

[@PhilbyFavourites]

Fields of badly dressed British men in wildly unstylish headgear, I love it. And I was taken here after just watching the opening 8 minutes of “The Battle of Britain” on KZbin. “Oh for God’s sake Jamie, give your brain a chance!”

[@imregaspar9453]

How did works they mini jet motors????

[@piotrtendera1250]

There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13

[@robedmunds7163]

Those Rapiers were great, flew a Skyjet there and it circled up out of sight, then circled back down to land at my feet. Nanny state banned them now.

[@jbbolts]

they are banned now? are rapiers still being produced?

[@wingnutzster]

Can Jetex and Rapier motors be replicated with sugar rocket tech?

[@jamescooke3763]

Just make one that doesn't light and it'll be an exact replica

[@eitanoiman]

What kind of engines is used ? Never so it before. Where can I get info about them? I love to have it in our club.

[@Jpsk1981]

Apparently a kind of rocket motor.

[@piotrtendera1250]

There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13

[@MrJacksonBollock]

Bit late to the party, but these are a mixture of Rapier and Jetex engines. Rapiers were single use, Jetex and Jet-X motors were reusable, both used a solid fuel mixture based on Guanadine Nitrate. Getting hard to find now, I'm a toy dealer in the UK and have a reasonable selection of Jetex and Jet-X products for sale, but for shipping inside the UK only as the fuel is now classed as an explosive and will be seized by any customs officers who encounter it. Boo-hiss.

[@FB0102]

so how do these little engines work?

[@piotrtendera1250]

There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13

[@ravebrave8866]

life was good before Corona...

[@stevennagley8969]

Where do you buy the rocket engines

[@piotrtendera1250]

There are new engines available to drive this type of models, see: www.raketenmodellbau-klima.de/TSP-m13.htm?shop=raketenklima&SessionId=&a=marke&Hersteller=13

[@djquiko]

Looks like fireworks propellation.

[@f4udhorn]

More fun than a sack ful of kittens! Why can't we fly with all the spectators among us, too? FF?

[@diverdownaaron]

Excuse me. But, do I understand correctly? Did you people light a bunch of stuff on fire and then throw it, completely uncontrolled, in a field of dry grass surrounded by woods?I'm just asking.

[@HDDRecovery]

Are you Aussie ;-)

[@diverdownaaron]

@@HDDRecovery No, mate. I'm a Yank from top to bottom.

[@LordZontar]

Nope. Small gas-powered ducted fan motors inside the models. But yes these are free-flight models.

[@bogomir67]

What is a "Jetex"?

[@dewexdewex]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetex

[@chrisbell5032]

Was the first one a total loss system, lol. You also need a dog to retrieve it.

[@johnmajane3731]

To bad you cannot get the motors anymore.

[@camiloecheverry5210]

I have a jetex motor 600 brand new for sale

[@Colstah]

sort of jet powered dodgeball...

[@shahnajsharar9939]

i see no gods on the sky 🧐

[@bipolatelly9806]

Rubber band planes are much better.

[@bipolatelly9806]

Enter at own risk. Loons at play.

[@johnhubbard3399]

I don't think AMA in the U.S. would like the way they do this.

[@JessHull]

why not ?

[@johnhubbard3399]

@pagansforbreakfast True

[@jaunelanders5273]

Yup.?!..that's how you start forest fires...?! weaaaaa!!

[@mikeilkenhons8896]

Wasted 3 minutes watching this....

[@MrJacksonBollock]

Your life became richer as a result.