So, you know (and I’m sure you do) that I love posting links to paper modelcraft.

Of course, we all know what the problem with paper models is. They simply fly too slow, right?

Where’s that modern age of speed and danger that Marinetti celebrated a full century ago? Come on, man, paper models of biplanes – cloth and twigs in the original, mere leaves of a dream-folio in the model – must ultimately be assessed as puerile juvenilia, am I right?

You know, in your heart of hearts, that I am.

That’s why it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the exciting, half-century-old practice of scratch-or-kit constructing and hand-launching flying paper or balsa wood models containing and powered by tiny refillable solid-fuel aluminimum rocket motors! What better way for a boy to learn of the hazards that await him on battlefields from Baghdad to Cold War central Europe? Watch those fingers, kid – it’s gonna get HOT!

Today, the Jetex tradition is carried on by the brave innovators of Jet-X and Rapier.