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Old 07-23-2020, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by pterodactyl
The picture on the back of the 1969 Centuri catalog is striking to this day. I'm wondering if anybody has any information about the origins of the model and its eventual fate. If the YORF hive mind doesn't know who does? (yes I'll ask Lee Piester too)

Centuri 1969 catalog: http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/nostalgia/69cenb.html

It looks to me like the same model made an appearance at NARAM-10:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stine...57707063068775/


Notice that model is painted as 500F, the non-flying "training boilerplate" for the SATURN-V.
Estes used to sell a NON-FLYING display model "K-36NF". . . EXTREMELY RARE !

Dave F.
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