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- From: dlou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Rocket powered R/C (Estes Astro Blaster)
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 05:42:23 GMT
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- Anyone have any experience with the Estes Astro Blaster?
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- I was thinking about getting either this one or the Sig Ninja.
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- The Astro Blaster sounds really intriguing because it is a canard and
- can fly rocket boost, slope, or you can use a dummy rocket motor and
- plug in a .049. This would work out great for me since I can fly it on
- the slope when I'm at school (Torrey Pines site), fly it under power
- at a schoolyard when I'm home for the holidays, and fly it rocket boost
- when I want to show off to my friends.
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- My concerns are that
- 1> I don't know how well it will fly on the slope. For that matter, I don't
- know how well it will fly period. (I already read the Dec `92 MAN review,
- but they never mentioned anything about slope performance or much about glide
- characteristics)
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- 2> The elevator/aileron canard configuration prevents stall maneuvers (i.e.
- snap rolls and tumbles)
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- 3> the .049 pusher configuration means you can't use a clunk tank (the
- clunk will be facing the wrong way) and the QRC/Texaco/Black Widow
- engines won't go inverted which, combined with #2, means you can't do many
- good stunts under power.
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- Anyone have any comments on this plane or how to solve #3?
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- Dennis Lou || "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
- dlou@ucsd.edu || "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
- [backbone]!ucsd!dlou |+====================================================
- dlou@ucsd.BITNET |Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my high school.
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- Dennis Lou || "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
- dlou@ucsd.edu || "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
- [backbone]!ucsd!dlou |+====================================================
- dlou@ucsd.BITNET |Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my high school.
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