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Pretty sure the original ones were yellow. Even the 1970 Estes catalog, the first to list the Porta-Pad, states that it was yellow plastic. See catalog page here: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/70est100.html Not sure when they switched to orange, but probably very early 70s. Earl
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I did a bunch of old catalog research when I went on a GSE-collecting kick some years ago. The first Porta-Pads were yellow, and appeared in the 1971 and 1972 catalogs that color. Then red. Orange 1975-1981. Then in 1982 it was revised to be lower and wider and was black through 1986, then red for two years. The Porta-Pad II first appeared in the 1989 catalog and it was yellow. They went black in 1997. To get back on topic: I have a frame grab of a Nova Payloader flying off of an Electro-Launch on a White Lighting Q-Jet:
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Interesting chronology.
I have two orange ones from the 70's and two black "E" pads. What I really want is a repro Centuri LIA-100. Easily handles thru H power.
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It's relatively easy to do that sort of thing since Estes has almost all their old catalogs posted on their web site.
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Hi Bernard, I have the yellow and the orange original Porta-Pads, plus the black and the red lower standing Porta-Pads, but I have never seen an original tall Porta-Pad in red. Do you or anyone else happen to have one of those tall red ones? If so, could you post a photo of it to show what shade of red it is please? Thanks for the information! Kind regards, Jeff Jenkins aka: Faithwalker NAR #46879 SR |
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Jeff,
It doesn't look like I have a red one of the original tall type, just an orange one like GH recalled. Sorry.
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