Guys,

Before anyone !QUOT!shoots!QUOT! me down, please do read the whole post!!!!

Some time ago in RCJI there was a splendid Douglas Skyhawk with a note that the builder had working missiles on the aircraft.

I have had this idea in mind ever since then, but of course with safety being the prime directive, I realised that having a cut down Estes bolted to the wing ready for ignition would force everyone with a transmitter to land and never leave mother earth again!!

However, the idea has always been in my mind as something that would look rather good. But how could this be done safely.

Solid or liquid fuel is out, and one has to be wholly mindful that the weapon could cause some problems. I put the thought in the back of my mind until my son (all 11 years old) snuck up on me and got me with his air powered pump action 4 shot depron firing gun.

It did not hurt a tiny little bit but was pretty impressive and scared the hell out of me!! I will let him out of his room in the next week or so!

So I go to thinking whether it would be feasible to have a missile made out of depron or similar low density material, fired using air or compressed gas (Co2?) with the kind of theatrical liquid smoke to give it the impetus.

So, with just a theoretical !QUOT!what if!QUOT! in mind, I thought I would put the thoughts to the great and the good.

As this is my first post I really want to endorse the fact that I recognise reality from fiction, and that anything leaving the aircraft at any time, has to be safe, wholly , completely and irrefutably. That way I hope you wont think I am an idiot, just a person with a thought looking for some ideas and thoughts?

Hope to hear from people soon,

Gazzer