In late 1971, I bought my first model rocket, a Centuri Javelin. The 1972 catalog came out, and I remember drooling over the contents for countless hours.

[Allow 40 years to pass.]


In late December 2011, I resurrected some old projects that I'd abandoned, and started working on them again. In January 2012, I finally mustered enough courage to try building a rocket that I'd always admired, but didn't have the guts to try.

As January progressed, I realized that I was working on 1.37X upscales of two of the three rockets listed in the 1972 catalog as "Available Feb 1, 1972," 40 years after they were released.


Vector-V:

http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/72cen014.html


Taurus:

http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/72cen046.html


FWIW, I don't think I'll both with an upscale of #3 right now:


Sky-Lab:

http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/no...a/72cen070.html


"Viva Centuri '72!"


Cheers,

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Jay Goemmer
"Centuri Guy"/"Tau Zero"
YORF Member 28
Semroc SAM #0029
NAR 86131


"I think about organizing things all the time. Never seems to happen. I find something that piques my interest and I'm off on a quest. Or a Centuri. "

--Bill Eichelberger, 02/22/2022


“Centuri fret buzz in an updated form.”
Bill “Wallyum” Eichelberger re: Estes Flutter-By
03 Sept 2014