__NOEDITSECTION__ Blaster was a man obsessed with hovercrafts. No, not the cushion air type with a rubber ring around the vehicle but, rather, the air car-type. It was an obsession that started at age thirteen and an issue of Popular Mechanics. Intrigued with the machine's ability to float under the power of a vacuum cleaner, he sought to make more powerful motors and find practical uses for these machines. He actually owned the patents to several designs but the world just wasn't ready for his hovercrafts. However, the machines could provide ground and semi-air support that he got the military to listen to him. More than any other G.I. Joe vehicle operator, he liked to push his machine past its design limits.