02-10-2015, 06:37 AM
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Vintage Estes Rockets
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Posts: 20
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Originally Posted by mojo1986
How many of you guys knew that Estes marketed a 36" silk parachute back in 1969? To the best of my knowledge, it never appeared in a catalog and the 'chutes weren't offered for any great length of time.
Did anyone here ever buy one?
Joe
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It was Nylon, and the flyer states they purchased them. Probably from Centuri:
=> http://vintageestesrockets.com/prom.../index.htm#silk
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