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		Fixed Wing – Jetex Scorpion 600

Model Aircraft Plans for the Scorpion 600

Although one of the last Jetex motors to be marketed – and the most powerful – the Scorpion 600 attracted the interest of numbers of flyers. However, few plans for model aircraft using this motor appear to have been published.

We present here three very different models – one a fairly conventional duration flyer and the other two distinctly unconventional – that were specifically designed to make use of the unprecedented power of the Scorpion 600.

What you'll find here:
	The Drop-out
	Hi-Altitude Speed Model
	Castaway

The Drop-out by Don McGovern

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- Flying Models, Oct. 1966 (p. 17)

Jetex Radio??? You crazy?

Well, maybe, but why not? … just airlift it X-15 style, fuse it off and cut it free at high altitude. Try one!

That's how Flying Model introduced Don McGovern's super-duration design for Scorpion power. more >>

Hi-Altitude Speed Model by Paul Del Gatto

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- All About Jetex, Paul Del Gatto (undated)

Paul Del Gatto had a fondness for high-speed, high-altitude craft with a spacecraft or missile-like configuration. The power of the Scorpion 600 allowed him to fly faster and higher than ever before.

In this model, he offered the option of a cut-down augmenter tube to boost the power even further. To aid retrieval, he added a fuse-operated parachute recovery mechanism.

Castaway by John O'Donnell

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- Zaic Model Aeronautic Year Book, 1957/58 p.176

John O'Donnell, a UK modeller, took the Castaway's wing sections from 'Hustler', an earlier design of his for Jetex 350 power. To achieve stability with the motor mount, John abandoned the Scorpion's own supplied stud mount and sheathed the motor in a section of aluminium tube.

The Scorpion's power was used to enable Castaway to achieve R.O.G. flight.

Acknowledgements

Plan and information source:
- Hi-Altitude Speed Model: book contributed by Doug Foster
- The Drop-out: article and plan contributed by Bill Henderson

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