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- From: dlou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Rocket powered R/C (Estes Astro Blaster)
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 18:14:21 GMT
- References: <42995@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <1993Jan5.015534.19691@rtsg.mot.com>
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- In article <1993Jan5.015534.19691@rtsg.mot.com>, svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda) writes:
- |> In article <42995@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> dlou@ece.ucsd.edu writes:
- |> |3> the .049 pusher configuration means you can't use a clunk tank (the
- |> |clunk will be facing the wrong way)
- |>
- |> Okay, here's what you do. Use a normal tank with a balloon inside.
- |>
- |> |and the QRC/Texaco/Black Widow
- |> |engines won't go inverted which,
- |>
- |> I've never had a QRC or Texaco, but I assure you that a Black Widow
- |> has an inverted fuel system.
-
- Well, you can invert the cylinder and you can invert the needle valve. The
- Black Widow I had didn't have a clunk inside the tank.
-
- |> You can also buy tank mounts for TD 049s that handle inverted flight.
- |> That will give you more power than a Black Widow.
-
- Interesting solutions and I already used then for another canard pusher
- I never flew, but the point of the Astro Blaster is to have a .049
- attached to a dummy rocket engine so you can fly either rocket boost
- or .049 depending on how much money you've got. For that, you'd pretty
- much need a tank mounted engine and tank mounted engines can't handle
- both inverted flight and a pusher configuration.
-
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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!"
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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!"
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- dlou@ucsd.BITNET |Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my high school.
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