Big motors!

[sagallacci]

Sorry if I'm duplicating the subject, but I gotta mention what I just saw! At the Evergreen Air and Space museum, they have a M1 really big rocket motor (though suprisingly, no F1 to compare it with) and it IS really big.

 

[Hanse]

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[sagallacci]

Okay a snap. That's a Titan in back for scale.

 

[Johnbr]

The M1 was second stage engine for the second generation for the Saturn 5 the first stage engine was to be the F1 b or C .Out put of them was 1.75 million IB's and 2 million IB's

 

[Hanse]

Okay a snap. That's a Titan in back for scale.

That's actually just the top part.

 

[Howedar]

Mark Wade's drawing on astronautix.

 

[Michel Van]

nice picture sagallacci

sad its only the top of Engine, no nozzle or Turbopumps

that how it look like (source wiki)

the white part is that piece in the museum

here the Turbopump from in M-1 (source Wiki)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-1_(rocket_engine)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730065121_1973065121.pdf
around 2.56 Mb big

 

[Spark]

Hi,


What, no gears?

 

[flateric]

Spark, please look for damn overquoting!
Posting 250 lines of previous post and adding three lines of yours not a good habit.

 

[Grey Havoc]