Brief

The Python Fighter was one of a handful of kits produced under the Centuri name using existing Estes parts, kind of a way to familiarize loyal Centuri fans with Estes kits before the Centuri line was dropped for good in the coming years.  Only produced from 1981 to 1983, the Python Fighter used the same cockpit nose cone as the Estes kits the Manta Bomber and Attack Craft Orion.  I won three of the cones in an Ebay auction lot and immediately set out to build the trio.  The Attack Craft Orion and Manta Bomber were easy, as both plans already existed online, the Attack Craft Orion at YORP and the Manta Bomber at JimZ.  For a long time these plans didn't exist on any of the plan sites, but Arley Davis finally scanned them for posterity, for which we owe him a debt of thanks.