New sport scale Orion MLAS escape vehicle coming from Quest!
 

New sport scale Orion MLAS escape vehicle coming from Quest!

NASA will be implementing the MLAS (Max Launch Abort System) on the Orion manned rockets, here's a link to the a video of the actual NASA craft and a test flight. It is much like the Little Joe of the Apollo series.

http://www.space.com/common/media/v...708_mlas-launch

We started building yesterday, and should be have in a test flight of our own today! Talk about fast track development! No date for release yet, but it will be soon!

Cool video,can't wait to see the finished rocket!!!

Will it include all nine parachutes? :chuckle:

I hate to break it to you guys but since I built the "original" parts for NASA Langley I already have prototypes parts built. :D

Having Quest's product development resources available is so very cool- we went from concept to flight model in less than 24 hours!

Here are two pics of the process, we'll post the flight pics later or tomorrow.

Is this what you guys want to make?

Your aeroshroud is soooo wrong. :D

The flight test model was built from parts on hand. In less than 8 hours...

Have you flown your's yet? If so, how did it do?

Will this be safe enough to sell to the average American model builder? I ask based upon decades of checking-in and inspecting tens of thousands of model rockets. These are models built by average people, not NAR hard-core modelers. The average person might make simple errors during building and something this short and stubby with fins in the middle might end up very unstable (i.e. if an upper fin is crooked or if a lower fin is not perpendicular to the body tube.


Of course, if you are planning to slot the body tube and include the appropriate nose weight, then you may have a fool-proof design. That would indeed be very cool.

Good luck and enjoy the world of rapid-prototyping.

And since I'm typing anyway, those Q2G2 ingiters are the best thing ever. :D