Ye Olde Rocket Forum - Centuri body tube list

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01-29-2019, 12:05 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tau Zero

Thanks, Chris! I appreciate the vote of confidence.

Back in the day, I remember discussing body tube "names" with an Estes fan.

The best they could come up with was, "You can put three BT-20s in a BT-60, and have a three-motor cluster. See? It *does* make sense!"

--I *still* wasn't convinced.

However, it depends on how you were conditioned.

Bill Simon has said he wished that he'd done that tube size naming some other way (he claims responsibility). And yes, that's exactly how BT-60 got to be BT-60. If you look at the oldest Estes catalogs you'll see the first place it was used is the Ranger and Cobra - both three motor cluster models.

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