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Centuri Tour, 1968 American Rocketeer, Part 1 (2016-08-31)

Here's a photo tour of the Centuri facility from the American Rocketeer magazine. [Read More]

Centuri Tour, 1968 American Rocketeer, Part 2 (2016-09-01)

I guess the lab coats made everything look more scientific. This last aerial picture is a little deceiving.  The Centuri operation didn't take up the entire building. I visited Centuri in 1972. ... [Read More]

Lee Piester Talk at Museum Of Flight (2016-10-18)

Rick Piester posted this link on Facebook: "Here's my dad telling the story of Centuri Engineering at the Seattle Museum of Flight."   If you haven't seen it, highly recommended - ... [Read More]

Job Opportunity At Centuri? 1979 (2017-03-20)

While I'm in California taking care of family business, I looked through some of my old files and found this. I had thought it was lost . . . It's dated September, 1979, from Grant Boyd. ... [Read More]

Post About Grant Boyd from Centuri (2018-12-21)

Posted by Stan Woo on the Centuri Model Rockets Facebook Page: "Every year, for the last 11 years, I've sent Grant Boyd of Centuri a Christmas card. This year I received one addressed from his ... [Read More]

Motor or Engine? (2019-07-15)

On the Centuri Model Rocket Facebook page, Steven Ross posted this: Gary Dahlke responded: "This is the aerospace industry convention: solid propulsion = motor; liquid propulsion = engine. Gary ... [Read More]

Centuri Move to Estes? (2020-01-22)

Somewhere around 1976 most noticed a familiar launcher in the new Centuri "Newspaper" format catalog - That Centuri "Power Tower" tripod launcher sure looked like something we've seen before! Of ... [Read More]

Engines or Motors? (2020-04-08)

On the Facebook Model Rocket Fanatics page, Douglas Ferguson posted: " I am sitting here thinking. Why do people interchange the word "motor" and "engine"? Do these individuals not know that that " ... [Read More]