Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Different Quest Controller and Launcher on YouTube

For curiosity I searched "Model Rocket Building" to see where the blog came up.
I found a YouTube video where a Quest Astra III Starter Kit is opened up.



To see the video, CLICK HERE

The starter set is opened but the regular black Quest controller isn't there.
At :55 seconds in I saw this:


That is clearly the SKY pad and controller.
(This picture is from the Apogee website)

The Sky launcher is a close (Chinese made) copy of the old Estes Port-A-Pad.
The "Quest" controller (above pic) has the same white cable and yellow safety key.
I thought the guy on the video may have bought a starter set on Ebay where the seller had conveniently substituted another brand of launcher in place of the normal quest products. But, in the video you see instructions for the controller and the Quest logo is at the top of the page.

Quest already relabels and sells the imported Sky engines with their logo.
Maybe Quest ran low on their own branded controllers and launchers and temporarily switched out the Sky components?

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