A good deal of our time here at Quest is spent developing new products. Some of the ideas are submitted to us from rocketeers and professional designers, but most are developed by us. Sometimes a new product is nothing more than “packaging” old products in a new way like our new Prod. No 5750 STARHAWK 6 ROCKET PARTY SET. This is a product that is designed to make it easy for a retail store to sell rockets to a Mom or customer with no rocket knowledge at all.
Some R&D projects are very large in scope. Quest is currently design
ing an entire new line of mid-power model rockets and engines. These projects can take many months, even years! The Quest mid-power rockets will include several black powder rocket engines in the D, E, and F power range. Once the engine specifications and performance get finalized, then rest of the line starts unfurling – a new igniter – a new launch pad and controller- and finally kits. We gave a sneak preview of some of our kit ideas at NARAM in August 2008.An R&D project can be for a specific vehicle. Here’s some work we’re doing on the new NASA ARIES launch vehicle.
Here’s some ideas we’re developing for new MICRO MAXX rocket kits.
And sometimes the most fun projects are what we call “Blue-Sky”. This is when we just have an idea and play with it.
SPEV is an a
cronym for “Spare Part Elimination Vehicle”.Product development is definitely my favorite part of this business. If you have a great product idea, please feel free to contact us. We do follow a pretty strict protocol to protect your idea – so everyone must sign non-disclosure documents before we ever look at it.
By-the-way… Quest is also introducing Parts on our website soon. Look for that announcement and start designing your own cool looking rockets!
Bill Stine
NAR#24
President
Quest Aerospace, Inc.
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