02-10-2015, 10:17 AM
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Ye Olde Rocket Shoppe
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 6,484
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Originally Posted by Initiator001
The Centuri/Enerjet fabric parachutes were made by Betty Piester (Wife of Centuri President Lee Piester) and some of her friends.
All of them belonged to a sewing circle and would get together once a month to sew parachutes for the rocket kits.
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Kind of like Gleda Estes hand rolling the original parallel wound BT-30 tubes. |