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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,751
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Originally Posted by Rusty Heap
I worked on the Delta IV Heavy, the only 3 abreast rocket in the air force launch system.
I did XYZ servo alignment of the "tubes" of the rocket to join them on a moving line.
240 feet tall.
Mostly used to launch Heavy Defense stuff way up high.
Rocketdyne RS-68 motors, three of them, 68 thousand pounds thrust each.
Turbo pumps to feed the liquid O2 and liquid Hydrogen to the engines were 3000 horsepower each.
No nasty Benzines or Kerosenes, just Oxygen and Hydrogen makes steam and thrust.
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Super cool!
Maybe I should convert my boxster to run on oxygen and hydrogen. It'd be perfectly green and probably be fast!
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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