Big motors!

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

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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
 
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Mark Wade's drawing on astronautix.
 
nice picture sagallacci

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

that how it look like (source wiki)
M-1RocketEngineScale.png

the white part is that piece in the museum

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


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

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