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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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