Category:Other Jetex-powered models

1949: Selfridges advert for a (lightweight, balsawood) Jetex-powered racing car, with optional tether [image info]

1950: Gamages advert, Jetex cars and boats, August [image info]

1950: Gamages advert, Jetex Car and Boat, November [image info]

1966: Jetex Racing Car [image info]

1966: Jetex Speed Boat, Atom 35 [image info]

Non-aircraft Jetex models.

The simplicity of the Jetex system meant that as well as the original idea of using them to power model aircraft, one could easily fit them to a lightweight plastic boat or car (whether this was a good idea or not was another question!), and Wilmot and Mansour seemed to have been producing as wide a range of designs as possible, perhaps partly to inspire other manufacturers to get involved.

Ironically, the main vehicle type initially missing from the lineup of Jetex-powered craft was ... a rocket. This was because the deliberately designed slow burn meant that the comparatively weak thrust of the earlier devices had trouble managing vertical flight. Jetex-powered model rockets appeared later, with the appearance of later engines that produced a faster burn using the same fuel, by igniting multiple surfaces of the pellets

Cars

Jetex produced a tether and a jointed tether point that could be fixed to the box, so that the Jetex cars could whizz around in a circle. Otherwise, even assuming that one had a sufficiently long straight track, one was liable to lose the car!