This catalog page is from the 1992 Quest Catalog.
The Aurora was Quest kit #3002, a parasite boost glider.
The model is 15" tall built around a sturdy 25mm Quest body tube.
The face card description says:
"The boost glider is modeled after the new, top-secret successor to the SR-71 spy plane. Glider jettisons booster at 500 feet and glides back to earth while booster returns via 12 inch parachute."
I bought this one a few months back at the Orlando Hobby Spot store. They have a very limited rocketry selection but occasionally you can find an interesting older kit.
The kit was marked at $7.99 for reasons I would find out during the build.
During construction I found the kit was re-bagged. The balsa pieces had been broken loose from the die-cut sheet. The glider rudder strake (front end) was broken off.
The one-piece fin can with integrated launch lugs.
(The "launch lugs" weren't open! You couldn't slide them down a launch rod without drilling through them.)
Small 5mm nose cone with adapter shoulder to the left.
Launch lugs (2)
Dowel for glider hook
Gripper tabs for shroud line attachment
An "Important Assembly Note" was in the kit.
It explained that a launch lug would have to be glued beside the closed lug molded into the fin can.
Stickers!!!
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