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Old 04-03-2019, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Earl
And vice-versa.

Two Centuri parts -- both within 2-3 years of their *50th* birthdays -- are the plastic Mercury capsule, still in use by Estes (originally first released by Centuri in early '71 in the Centuri Mercury-Redstone kit); and the Enerjet 1340 plastic fin can, originally released around 1972 in the 1340 and within a year of that in the Centuri Argus kit and later Phoenix Bird, used in several Estes kits over the years since and most recently in the Estes Eliminator.

Pretty good success story for both those parts.


Earl
I'd love to see Estes use the 1340 fin unit in a re-issued Argus (patterned after the X-17) kit (which came with both the PNC-70 short ogive and the PNC-71 rounded-tip cone [from the X-24 "Bug"], which the BT-20 Estes Yankee cone is very similar to). A re-issue of the Estes Mercury-Atlas (using the plastic Mercury capsule and Atlas parts) would also facilitate the production of scale kits of other Atlas-based vehicles (and at the same scale, too)--the Atlas D ICBM, Atlas-SCORE, Atlas-Able, Atlas-Agena, Atlas-Centaur, Atlas-Burner II, etc.
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