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November 2018

A comment by Richard Barlow at the bottom of "Vintage RTP Model":-
"Lovely. I well remember RTP, not only with rubber, but also Jetex. Aeromodeller had an article on the latter called "Farnborough In Your Clubroom". I recall that the fumes were awful!!"

This reminded me of experiments with Jetex in the 1950's and I did find the "Farnborough In Your Clubroom" article in the April 1954 Aeromodeller

Click the miniatures for a readable version. Thanks to RC Bookcase for the download and to Aeromodeller for the articles.

The month in which the Aeromodeller article was published came from Jetex.org where a Roger Simmonds article from "Sam Speaks" January 2004 was reprinted. At the bottom of Roger Simmonds piece there is a section on RTP, which brought up "200 m.p.h. at Knee Level?"

Again thanks to RC Bookcase for the download and to Aeromodeller for the articles.

I couldn't find a scanned copy of the appropriate Model Aircraft but found another piece in Jetex.org.

Tony Beckett