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I don’t understand your first paragraph - is this related to the F-1 development having strong iterative components? Also, Combustion instabilities date back t
by bernulli 6y ago
I don’t understand your first paragraph - is this related to the F-1 development having strong iterative components?
Also, Combustion instabilities date back to at least the A4/V2, not quite new, and largely the same engineers.
- WalterBright 6y agoThe F1 is a bigger (!!) version of the same engine. It's got the same crucial features: 1. turbo-pumps 2. the nozzle is cooled and the fuel warmed by making the nozzle out of tubes through which the fuel passed 3. holes drilled in the tubes so fuel leaked into the combustion chamber to provide boundary layer cooling I think the pogo-ing was solved the same way, too - putting baffles in in various places.
- bernulli 6y agoBy that logic essentially all cryogenic engines are “the same”.
- WalterBright 6y agoIn a similar vein, all modern jet engines can trace their core features back to the Ohain engine (not the Whittle engine).