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JB
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 5:49 am

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/propul/SSMEamaz.html

im impressed...
william
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 6:01 am

you'd never get the wheels to grip...


Laughing
Chris H
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 6:04 am

aye some fancy facts there.

The new diesels run the pumps at over 1700BAR!!!!
JB
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 7:04 am

read some other great facts about the discharge of the huge orange ext. fuel tank on the shuttle, during the firing of those engine.....ridiculous figures...see if i can find them

i am so impressed by 'large' technology like this..how it all works so well on such a volatile level. and amazingly, that engine was designed in the 70s.
Chris H
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 7:06 am

technology really has not advanced much lately.

Not the leap it took from 1800 - 1900
JB
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 7:13 am

http://www.answers.com/topic/space-shuttle-main-engine

more detail for those who want to know.
Chris H
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 7:20 am

intresting stuff
Wicked Neo
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:51 am

it will never fly . . . .

seriously thou what a buzz those astronauts must get when taking off with all that power under them.

i would love to know the cost of just test firing one of those engines and then imagine how much it costs to launch one . . . unreal
Benskett
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Joined: 05 Mar 2005
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:55 am

kool
R1916S
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Joined: 23 Jan 2005
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 12:39 pm

Yeah, just happened to be watching TV one morning in 1987 or so, when the the thing went bang, in direct live.

Sad
huwwatkins
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Joined: 10 Jun 2004
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:45 pm

Anyone stood next to a Saturn 5 rocket? foooooooooooooooookin HUGE. Hard to convey the sheer size of it without actually seeing one up close.
Chris H
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 11:50 pm

Rolls Royce is just over the train line from us. They used to fire the jets up at 3am to test them, they woke everyoen up. Sounded lovely though!
JB
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 1:02 am

yeah..cant beat the sound of jet engines....i want one.
JB
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 1:03 am

on the subject of 'large' technology heres an old fav im sure most have you have seen, but still like looking at it:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

think they bother knife-edging the crank? Rolling Eyes
JB
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:25 am

Image

ooof look at the flame....imagine the noise of that fecker. Cool
JB
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:30 am

oh come on! Cool
testing the engine vids!!

https://rockettest.ssc.nasa.gov/ssc_ptd/images_sscptd/ssc_projects/ssme/day_gimballing.mpg

https://rockettest.ssc.nasa.gov/ssc_ptd/images_sscptd/ssc_projects/ssme/night_gimballing.mpg

they can vector the beasts too! amazing....totally blown away!
JB
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:34 am

http://www.astrosurf.org/lombry/Documents/navette-launch-sts70.mpg
JB
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:35 am

http://www.astrosurf.org/lombry/Documents/navette-launch1995-ssc.mpg

i luv it when they fire up...look so powerful!
JB
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:44 am

Image

gives u some scale
Dan
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 12:03 am

imagine the head gasket on that 14cyl fecker, try using your chewing gum wrapper fix on that chris h! Laughing
JB
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 1:09 am

think chris would have to crack out the big guns.....pizza boxes!
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