Estes Industries (AKA Estes-Cox Corporation) is a company based in Penrose, Colorado, USA that designs and builds model rocket and model aircraft engines and kits. They were the best known model rocket company during the "golden age of rocketry" in the 1970s and early 1980s, competing primarily with Centuri Engineering and a host of smaller firms like Canaroc and Flight Systems, Inc. In the 1990s the hobby had almost disappeared, and Estes bought Centuri, folding their product lines together. Throughout the 1990s Estes owned North Coast Rocketry (NCR), which served as their mid-power and high-power rocketry division, although Estes discontinued the NCR line in 2000. Today, in addition to producing model rocket engines, Estes offers model rocket kits for various skill levels of modelers, as well as remote control airplanes. Several independent sources have published measurements showing that Estes model rocket engines often fail to meet their published thrust specifications.
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