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[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by kach22i

Having a VERY bad day: Driver crashes his friend's classic Corvette into a marsh and is arrested for unpaid fines
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2647330/Bad-day-driver-crashed-friends-classic-Corvette-marsh-arrested-unpaid-fines.html

That sir, is NOT a classic Corvette:

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

So if nothing else, the US knows how to make it bigger and louder.

Werner was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket.



Wernher von Braun and Saturn IB on Launch Pad
Dr. Wernher von Braun stands in front of a Saturn IB launch vehicle at Kennedy Space Flight Center. Dr. von Braun led a team of German rocket scientists, called the Rocket Team, to the United States, first to Fort Bliss/White Sands, later being transferred to the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. They were further transferred to the newly established NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama in 1960, and Dr. von Braun became the first Center Director. Under von Braun's direction, MSFC developed the Mercury-Redstone, which put the first American in space; and later the Saturn rockets, Saturn I, Saturn IB, and Saturn V. The Saturn V launch vehicle put the first human on the surface of the Moon, and a modified Saturn V vehicle placed Skylab, the first United States' experimental space station, into Earth orbit. Dr. von Braun was MSFC Director from July 1960 to February 1970.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

The V2 engine (only had one):



One of eleven engines from the three stage Saturn V rocket:




So if nothing else, the US knows how to make it bigger and louder.

Each F1 would drain one of these worth of fuel per second.

[KNS]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

Yup. Many of the team were of European descent. There were also folks who were of Asian and African descent. All humans and no space aliens as far I know. Oh yeah, there were also a lot of women.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nasas-rocket-girls-are-no-longer-forgotten-history-180958791/

Okay, not really relative to the above comment but interesting to note that not one of those woman is overweight. What a contrast to today.

[Nordwest]

^Same goes for men... ^

[flipper35]

They didn't eat nearly as many processed foods back then.

[widebody911]

[abisel]

If you haven't seen it before.

von Braun's Saturn V launch in slomo.

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[Racerbvd]

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by Nordwest

^Same goes for men... ^

Not one of those women is a man!

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by svandamme

Werner was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by svandamme

Werner was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket.

He was one of many who helped designed it, and others built it.

Von Braun gets all the credit but there were thousands of engineers designing that rocket, von braun coordinated the effort.
Just like Edison gets credit for all the inventions his engineers designed for him.

Besides, von Braun wasn't even the best German we stole.
I believe Arthur Rudolph did more to advance the US space program but he didn't get much credit because of that whole Nazi war crimes thing.
Not sure why von braun got away with it and Rudolph didn't, ….. wink wink.

The V2 and subsequent A4 reached a max altitude of 117 km.
My son and a bunch of his fellow engineering students are currently building a liquid-fueled rocket that should hit 120 km.



Arthur Rudolph, project director of the Saturn V

[widebody911]

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[kach22i]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

That sir, is NOT a classic Corvette:

I hope you emailed the author of the article Jessica Jerreat to tell her of her mistake made back in 2014, I'm sure she would appreciate it.

Man Crashes Porsche 911 Into Lake in China - GTspirit

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by kach22i

I hope you emailed the author of the article to tell her of her mistake made back in 2014, I'm sure she would appreciate it.

Man Crashes Porsche 911 Into Lake in China - GTspirit

That Porsche that was driven into a lake in 2013 is not technically a 911.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

That Porsche that was driven into a lake in 2013 is not technically a 911.

Why don't you email the author of the 2013 article Brad Anderson and inform him?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/g916/swimming-with-cars-9-amphibious-vehicles/



https://www.fuldaerzeitung.de/regional/fulda/stadtregion/bernhards-dietershausen-kleinsassen-und-buchenberg-feiern-rosenmontag-EM8806464