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Falcon VTOL - VTOL Hypersonic Business Jet (This is not a graphics design)
New iteration update, Raven SSTO, up to 15,000 LBS payloads to orbit for apx $2 mln per launch. Compresses O2 and H2 fueled, not liquid fueled. Graphene Airframe, 6,000+F thermal resistance. Air Breathing Aerospike, along with the primary U-TBCC propulsion.
Details at link www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/falcon.php
Link to Conforming Tank Patent patents.google.com/patent/US20210080060
Link to Engines/Propulsion www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/utbcc.php
Falcon VTOL is a completely new aircraft design, next generation technologies, and capabilities never seen before. As seen here, anything released publicly are early iterations to get a good look and feel for the aircraft type publicly. But rest assured, every single aspect of this aircraft, the technologies, physics, and systems are already developed.
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The Titan's first and second-stage engines. The first stage generated 430,000 pounds of thrust and was designed to launch the thermonuclear weapon the first 50 miles into the air. The second-stage engine produced 100,000 pounds of thrust, sending the missile it as high as 250 miles at 17,000 mph.
Animated GIF of NASA images (spaced irregularly so the animation isn't very smooth) of a test firing of a rocket engine.
Side-on view of the first stage engines of a Saturn V rocket.
On display at the Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida.
PictionID:55550195 - Catalog:14_037092 - Title:Forbes AFB Details: Site 548-MAB; General View of Engine Maintenance Stand with Booster Engine Date: 05/09/1961 - Filename:14_037092.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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*Note: I've geotagged all of these pics in this set as being at the entrance, because unless you take a tour starting from the Infinity Science Center, that's as close as you'll get, and it's impossible now for me to figure out where more precisely, in the non-GoogleMapped campus, just where everything was, so that's close enough. :)
Pearlington, Mississippi.
Pratt & Whitney RL-10 Rocket Engine
As per Astronautix :
Pratt and Whitney LOx/LH2 rocket engine family. First flight 1961. Originally planned for use in Centaur upper stage for Atlas, but earliest successful flights in Saturn IV stage for Saturn I. Throttleable version designed for direct-landing Apollo mission, but cancelled. Sea-level version used in DC-X SSTO test vehicle. Numerous developed versions used in Atlas, Atlas V, Delta IV upper stages. Only production American upper-stage LOx/LH2 engine. Specifications are for early version as proposed for Nova A, Nova B, Saturn B-1, Saturn C-2, Saturn C-3, Saturn I. First flight 1961.
Rocketdyne H-1A Rocket Engine
As per Wikipedia:
The H-1 was developed for use in the S-I and S-IB first stages of the Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets, respectively, where it was used in clusters of eight engines. After the Apollo program, surplus H-1 engines were rebranded and reworked as the Rocketdyne RS-27 engine with first usage on the Delta 2000 series in 1974.
This particular H-1 rocket engine (H-2038) is on loan from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum (Inventory No. A19700286000). It is mentioned among notes that were provided to Wernher Von Braun on a weekly basis concerning projects at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). These notes have been made available online by MSFC's History Office (link).
The note about this particular engine is on Page 6 of the document linked below:
history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/documents/VB_WN_196707.pdf
NOTES 7-10-67 BROWN
H-1 ENGINE - Engine H-2038 has been selected for a quality assurance teardown inspection to determine the ageing effects of hardware and soft goods in order to evaluate the proposed one year extension of engine service life. This obsolete 188K engine was delivered in October 1963. It has the same basic seal configuration and materials as the present 200K and 205K engines in the field.
The engine was recently subjected to an electrical and mechanical checkout, hot fired, passed receiving inspection, and is now in process of teardown inspection at MSFC. Approximately 50% of the seals have been removed to date and visually appear to be in good condition. Laboratory analysis of the seals will begin next week. Metal components of the engine are also being inspected and analyzed for possible ageing effects.
The quality assurance teardown inspection will be repeated on two other obsolete engines -- one is scheduled for May 1968 and the other for May 1969.
Rocketdyne H-1A Rocket Engine
As per Wikipedia:
The H-1 was developed for use in the S-I and S-IB first stages of the Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets, respectively, where it was used in clusters of eight engines. After the Apollo program, surplus H-1 engines were rebranded and reworked as the Rocketdyne RS-27 engine with first usage on the Delta 2000 series in 1974.
This particular H-1 rocket engine (H-2038) is on loan from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum (Inventory No. A19700286000). It is mentioned among notes that were provided to Wernher Von Braun on a weekly basis concerning projects at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). These notes have been made available online by MSFC's History Office (link).
The note about this particular engine is on Page 6 of the document linked below:
history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/documents/VB_WN_196707.pdf
NOTES 7-10-67 BROWN
H-1 ENGINE - Engine H-2038 has been selected for a quality assurance teardown inspection to determine the ageing effects of hardware and soft goods in order to evaluate the proposed one year extension of engine service life. This obsolete 188K engine was delivered in October 1963. It has the same basic seal configuration and materials as the present 200K and 205K engines in the field.
The engine was recently subjected to an electrical and mechanical checkout, hot fired, passed receiving inspection, and is now in process of teardown inspection at MSFC. Approximately 50% of the seals have been removed to date and visually appear to be in good condition. Laboratory analysis of the seals will begin next week. Metal components of the engine are also being inspected and analyzed for possible ageing effects.
The quality assurance teardown inspection will be repeated on two other obsolete engines -- one is scheduled for May 1968 and the other for May 1969.
Mr. Jay Prichard of the Vandenberg Heritage Museum explaining interesting tidbits of information about the Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile engine behind him.
PictionID:53760024 - Catalog:14_031819 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Close Up of Missile Engine Area Date: 01/06/1958 - Filename:14_031819.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum