1.7 million pounds of Thrust

[jetboatperformance]

1.7 million pounds of Thrust , let that sink in .....

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[beerrun]

Sounds like it would make a nice jet boat

 

[4Waters]

Sounds like it would make a nice rocket boat

Fixed it

 

[FlyByWire]

The title threw me off a bit. I thought this was going to be a thread about my ex mother in law.

 

[2Driver]

The title threw me off a bit. I thought this was going to be a thread about my ex mother in law.

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[rrrr]

Pffft, that's nuthin'.

Each of the five Rocketdyne F-1 engines on the Saturn V produced 1.5 million pounds of thrust. That's 7.5 million total. The rocket weighed 6.2 million pounds fully fueled at launch.

The Saturn V's first stage fired for 2 minutes and 40 seconds, burning 203,000 gallons of RP-1 fuel and 318,000 gallons of LOX. It consumed 40,000 lbs of fuel per second, and 4.7 million pounds total during the burn, carrying the rocket to an altitude of 42 miles and a speed of 6,000 MPH.

And yes, the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Six times.

 

[4Waters]

Pffft, that's nuthin'.

Each of the five Rocketdyne F-1 engines on the Saturn V produced 1.5 million pounds of thrust. That's 7.5 million total. The rocket weighed 6.2 million pounds fully fueled at launch.

The Saturn V's first stage fired for 2 minutes and 40 seconds, burning 203,000 gallons of R-1 fuel and 318,000 gallons of LOX. It consumed 40,000 lbs of fuel per second, and 4.7 million pounds total during the burn, carrying the rocket to an altitude of 42 miles and a speed of 6,000 MPH.

And yes, the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Six times.

A friend of mines dad worked at Rocketdyne here in the Simi Hills at the Santa Susanna Field Laboratory, he told me they tested one F-1 motor one time (well before I was born). They couldn't get it shut down fast enough, while there wasn't many houses in Simi at the time most had broken windows. They tested the shit out of the shuttle engines, sometimes they tested something else quite a bit bigger that shook the shit out of the valley but was rare, would have liked to know what that was.

It was fukin awesome growing up listening to rocket motors being tested several times a year, I grew up about 3.5 miles from the closest test stand.

 

[rrrr]

That's really cool.

 

[DrunkenSailor]

That's what I tell my wife is comin. 38 seconds later she realizes I was lying.

 

[JDKRXW]

Sounds like it would make a nice jet boat

I'll just take a fuel pump from one of those engines for my boat - 55,000hp should do the trick.

 

[Javajoe]

I thought this was another TRT thread

 

[Mcchevy69ss]

Pffft, that's nuthin'.

Each of the five Rocketdyne F-1 engines on the Saturn V produced 1.5 million pounds of thrust. That's 7.5 million total. The rocket weighed 6.2 million pounds fully fueled at launch.

The Saturn V's first stage fired for 2 minutes and 40 seconds, burning 203,000 gallons of R-1 fuel and 318,000 gallons of LOX. It consumed 40,000 lbs of fuel per second, and 4.7 million pounds total during the burn, carrying the rocket to an altitude of 42 miles and a speed of 6,000 MPH.

And yes, the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Six times.

SpaceX's Starship, with its Super Heavy booster, generates a thrust of approximately 16 million pounds, more than twice the 7.6 million pounds of thrust of the Saturn V rocket. It uses 33 Raptor engines that are fully reusable and lands itself upright back at the launch pad.

 

[rivermobster]

The title threw me off a bit. I thought this was going to be a thread about my ex mother in law.

I thought it was gonna be another F150 post.

 

[rrrr]

SpaceX's Starship, with its Super Heavy booster, generates a thrust of approximately 16 million pounds, more than twice the 7.6 million pounds of thrust of the Saturn V rocket. It uses 33 Raptor engines that are fully reusable and lands itself upright back at the launch pad.

Yeah, I know the Starship is in a class of its own. I hope they can get it debugged, the concept is fantastic. My brain watching Mechazilla capture the Super Heavy insists it's CGI, it couldn't be real.

 

[coolchange]

Yeah, I know the Starship is in a class of its own. I hope they can get it debugged, the concept is fantastic. My brain watching Mechazilla capture the Super Heavy insists it's CGI, it couldn't be real.

How I felt the first time I saw a stealth bomber. Almost made me sea sick as my brain was saying that doesn’t make sense.

 

[rrrr]

I'll just take a fuel pump from one of those engines for my boat - 55,000hp should do the trick.

The gas generator that powered the turbopump on the F-1 developed 45,000 HP to deliver the fuel and oxidizer to the engine. The video below captures just how much power that is. It's crazy that amount of HP turned just one pump, but the pump was moving 40,000 pounds of RP-1 (highly refined kerosene) and liquid oxygen every second.

It had a common shaft that powered both pumps. The RP-1 was at ambient temps around 85°F, the LOX was at -297°F, and the turbine exhaust was over 4,000°F. It's incredible the engineers developed materials and pump seals that worked at those extreme differences of temperature in such close proximity to each other.

A cutaway F-1 turbopump. The turbine is at the bottom, the LOX section in the center, and the RP-1 section on top.

A video of the gas generator firing on a test stand. All of that discharge powered the turbopump.

 

[Eliminator21vdrive]

A friend of mines dad worked at Rocketdyne here in the Simi Hills at the Santa Susanna Field Laboratory, he told me they tested one F-1 motor one time (well before I was born). They couldn't get it shut down fast enough, while there wasn't many houses in Simi at the time most had broken windows. They tested the shit out of the shuttle engines, sometimes they tested something else quite a bit bigger that shook the shit out of the valley but was rare, would have liked to know what that was.

It was fukin awesome growing up listening to rocket motors being tested several times a year, I grew up about 3.5 miles from the closest test stand.

I lived near a Aerojet facility when I was a kid and the sounds and window rattling were crazy also had an air force base close so sonic booms and air raid siren testing as well.
The early 70's were crazy

 

[4Waters]

How I felt the first time I saw a stealth bomber. Almost made me sea sick as my brain was saying that doesn’t make sense.

Saw my first a few months ago heading to Vegas

The gas generator that powered the turbopump on the F-1 developed 45,000 HP to deliver the fuel and oxidizer to the engine. The video below captures just how much power that is. It's crazy that amount of HP turned just one pump, but the pump was moving 40,000 pounds of R-1 (highly refined kerosene) and liquid oxygen every second.

It had a common shaft that powered both pumps. The R-1 was at ambient temps around 85°F, the LOX was at -297°F, and the turbine exhaust was over 4,000°F. It's incredible the engineers developed materials and pump seals that worked at those extreme differences of temperature in such close proximity to each other.

A cutaway F-1 turbopump. The turbine is at the bottom, the LOX section in the center, and the R-1 section on top.

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A video of the gas generator firing on a test stand. All of that discharge powered the turbopump.

After watching your video I guess it's possible they may have been testing the shit out of the fuel pumps with the occasional shuttle engine. IDK for sure without being in the vicinity of a fuel pump test.

 

[rrrr]

Saw my first a few months ago heading to Vegas
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After watching your video I guess it's possible they may have been testing the shit out of the fuel pumps with the occasional shuttle engine. IDK for sure without being in the vicinity of a fuel pump test.

The gas generator in the video was mounted on a test stand at Marshall Space Flight Center and ignited. Its output nozzle wasn't connected to any downstream device, it was just blasting a overly rich mixture of RP-1 and LOX.

It used the non-stochiometric propellant mix because it burned at much lower temperatures. That protected the turbopump turbine section, and the exhaust was also discharged into the outer circumference of the F-1's combustion nozzle to lower its operating temperature.

When you watch the launch ignition of the Saturn V first stage, the first sequences are a flood of LOX from all five engines to prespin the turbopump impellers, as the gas generators light to begin driving the turbopumps. The large dispersion of black smoke and flame seen just before the F-1 engines ignite four seconds later is the overly rich exhaust from the gas generators. The huge high velocity flow of propellant gases from the engines suck the black cloud back down through the hole into mobile launch structure as the rocket lifts off.

As the rocket levitates, you can still see the gas generator exhaust as the first fifty feet or so of the propellant gases leaving the nozzle extension. After that, the burning bright white mixture of RP-1 and LOX from the engine overexpose the camera shot.

Fast forward to 2 minutes to see this sequence. At 3:20 the gas generator exhaust and propellant discharge separation is clearly visible.

 

[coolchange]

Saw my first a few months ago heading to Vegas
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After watching your video I guess it's possible they may have been testing the shit out of the fuel pumps with the occasional shuttle engine. IDK for sure without being in the vicinity of a fuel pump test.

It just looks like a triangular shaped hole in the sky

 

[rush1]

The mighty F 1 engine had an inflight rating of zero failures !