12-06-2019, 08:54 AM
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Dazed and Confused
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: TN
Posts: 11,624
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Originally Posted by Earl
I'll tell ya, that 1/100 Centuri Little Joe II kit is MUCH, MUCH harder to come by than the 1/45th kit.
Seems surprising and one would think that at the original price of about $3.00, many, many more of those would have been sold than the 1/45th kit. And maybe they were. But, when it comes to trying to find one NOW, the 1/100th scale Little Joe II's (the original Centuri kit, not the Estes early 90s re-issue), are very, very hard to find. And when one is located, it'll cost about as much as it's bigger brother.
Earl
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It makes me think that since they were smaller and cheaper to fly, they were built more often instead of being left in the packaging. Additionally, they were likely flown a lot more often with single standard motors compared to clustering. With lots of flights comes rocket eating trees, thermals, and damage, especially since you could stuff a C6-x in them. They might not have been stable with a C6, so they either crashed, or hit escape velocity.
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