according to the recent interviews with Vern and Lee, Estes made Centuri's motors until '69 or so, when Estes ran out of excess production capability, and Centuri got their plant working. In '71, Damon bought Centuri, and by '74 or '75 Centuri's motors were once again coming from Penrose.

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And the Centuri engine making machines were scrapped. Cox also made their own motors briefly as well

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Ah, the good old Mark VIIbis Ion Thruster. A good thing to have when dodging Astral Pirates out by Saturn's Rings.

This is a Reaction Motors,Inc XLR-11 four chamber liquid fueled rocket engine. This engine was uned in the Bell X-1 program.

This would be a great engine for the rocket being sold on ebay, and it's not green either.

This engine is on display at the Wright-Patterson Museum in Ohio.(Air Force Materials Command)

Reaction Motors, Inc. also made the XLT-99, which powered the X-15 and other motors for other rockets such as the Bullpup and the Viking

Two XLR-11's were also in the first X-15 because the XLR-99 wasn't ready yet..

I bet that really made it XLR-8.

The initial testing was done in Pompton Plains NJ, and then moved to Denville NJ and Lake denmark Nj (part of Picatinny Arsenal) the test stands for both the XLR-11 and XLR-99 are still in tact.

You can also find a new XLR-99 at Edwards AFB in CA and at the Teterboro Air Museum in NJ.

Their main office and assembly plant is still intact in denville NJ off of Ford Raod and has two plaues out front.

Reaction Motors was purchaed by Thiokol and became a division of them and eventually went out of business (RMI) in 1970.

The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in washington has a few artifacts from RMI, including their first engine and first test stand.

Can you imagine this in a Mosquito...........

I was thinking more along the lines of stuffing it in a little Burt Rutan plane about the size of his Vari-Eze and about as light. The X-1 was a tank in comparison.