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Old 04-22-2018, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Initiator001
I have to challenge your comment that 'Centuri' is well-known.

The company ceased to exist over thirty years ago as a producer of model rocketry products.

I doubt any hobby shop owner or hobby distributor today has heard of Centuri.

Centuri has no awareness level with the general public.

Estes has re-issued 'Centuri' kits at various times in the past up to the present.

Semroc has done a pretty good job of releasing Centuri/Mini-Max/Enerjet kits.
In addition to the Centuri name stilll being in use, I think there are enough of us to support a Centuri renaissance (a 12 year-old in the early 1980s, when it closed as a manufacturer, would be nearing 50 today), after which new Centuri kits would become familiar to today's kids.
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