Jetex Archive: Kits - the Veron Range


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		The Veron range

Veron kits

Veron, in the U.K., produced a small, but well designed and popular, range of aircraft kits for Jetex power. Veron's Jetex designer was Phil Smith, with the company from 1949 to 1981, and already well respected for his design of free-flight models.

On this page, we show the complete Veron range for Jetex power.

Copies of the original plans can still be obtained from Phil Smith himself:
    32 Verwood Crescent
    Southbourne
    Bournemouth
    Dorset BH6 4JE
    United Kingdom


What you'll find here:

	Fouga Cyclone
	Supermarine Attacker
	North American F-86 Sabre
	Republic F-84 Thunderjet
	Hawker Sea-Hawk

Fouga Cyclone

Cyclone kit

- Aeromodeller Annual

The Cyclone was the first of the Veron series designed by Phil Smith. He later wrote:

Occasionally, as with the French Turbojet Assisted Sailplane, the "Fouga-Cyclone" or latterly-called "Sylphe", the jet unit does come above the centre of resistance, creating a very stable flight set-up without tendency to spin.

[A] model of this machine, the first I built of a series, is perhaps far more stable, both laterally and longitudinally than any other I have built. Although only powered by a Jetex 50, the span was 30 in. because of the high aspect ratio. A pal of mine flies his with a 100 unit and has great fun.

Supermarine Attacker

Attacker kit

- Aeromodeller Annual

As a straight-wing design, the Attacker was more amenable to scale modelling than other swept-wing jet fighters. It proved a stable flyer.

Power: Jetex 50 motor
Wingspan: 18
Weight (with empty motor): 1 3/8 oz.

North American F-86 Sabre

Attacket kit

- Aeromodeller Annual

- Aeromodeller Annual

Designing a flying scale model of the Sabre obliged Phil Smith to contend with the sweepback issue. As he wrote:

Sweepback, as incorporated in most supersonic jet fighters, is far too great for lateral stability in scale models and must be tempered in the drawing stage to an amount not exceeding 25 degrees on the leading edge. This can usually be done without detracting greatly from the sonic planform of such a design as the Sabre, whose normal sweepback is 38 degrees.

As against that, he found that "swept-wing types, such as the Sabre, require less [fin area] than the conventional wing types as with the Thunderjet".

Power: Jetex 50 motor
Wingspan: 18
Weight (with empty motor): 1 3/8 oz.

Republic F-84 Thunderjet

Thunderjet kit

- Aeromodeller Annual

As another straight-wing design, the Thunderjet did not present Phil Smith with the sweepback problem of other jet fighters. It, too, proved a good flyer, another reason being that it was the lightest model of the series.

Power: Jetex 50 motor
Wingspan: 18
Weight (with empty motor): 1 1/8 oz.

Hawker Sea-Hawk

Sea-Hawk kit

The Hawker Sea-Hawk was the final addition to the Veron Jetex range, and for this last kit, Phil Smith chose another straight-wing aircraft, for its superior scale model flying characteristics.

Power: Jetex 50 motor
Wingspan: ??
Weight (with empty motor): ??

Acknowledgements

Illustration and information sources: Rocky Simmonds

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