08-19-2016, 01:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by tbzep
What? No T-stoff and Z-stoff? Where's the fun in that? 
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** Wistful Sigh ** Just as real turbojet and turboprop engines were powerplants that R/C jet modelers wanted badly for decades and finally got, liquid propellant rocket engines are a missing propulsion option that our hobby should have. (Watered-down T-Stoff [hydrogen peroxide] might be a candidate oxidizer for model-size liquid propellant engines, although the Z-Stoff would be nasty in any concentration--a T-Stoff monopropellant engine might be practical for hobbyist use.) Also:
Because of the unenlightened NAR attitude toward the operation of model rocket motors in horizontal flight, it's possible that such rocket engines might come from the model aviation community. (I appreciate the potential risks which underlie the NAR's prohibition of horizontal-flying rocket planes, but since far more powerful jet engines power R/C jet models at public displays safely, there's no reason why rocket planes can't do the same.) Scale models of rocket planes such as the Me 163, MX-324, XP-79A (Future/Fiction Scale; only the turbojet-powered XP-79B flew), X-1, X-2, X-15, and XCOR Aerospace's vehicles would be great applications for hobbyist liquid propellant rocket engines (so would scale models of liquid propellant ballistic missiles and sounding rockets). |