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In article <42995@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> dlou@ece.ucsd.edu writes:
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|Anyone have any experience with the Estes Astro Blaster?

Well, no, but I wanted to clear up some things about .049's.

|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.
The idea is to have the balloon fill the interior of the tank without
inflating.  The balloon is held in place by the tank cork.  Then 
instead of clunk and vent lines, you use a straight tube going to the 
lower back of the tank, with notches cut through it (and smoothed so 
as to not cut the rubber).  You just cut a small hole in the outside 
of the tank for a vent.  When you fill the tank, first suck the air
out from inside the balloon, then fill away.  It really works.

|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.

You can also buy tank mounts for TD 049s that handle inverted flight.
That will give you more power than a Black Widow.

		Dave Svoboda, Palatine, IL