Saturn V - "F1" engine static fire test (full stereo sound!)

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • What an amazing piece of incredible engineering!

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  • @josephplatania5593
    @josephplatania5593 10 місяців тому +24

    The fact they stay together is testament to fantastic engineering.

    • @inspectorvoid
      @inspectorvoid 10 місяців тому +7

      When you look back at what they were working with compared to what we have now, it’s the equivalent of “Tony stark built this in a cave, with a box of scraps!l

  • @garykirkham1389
    @garykirkham1389 Рік тому +29

    That test was in 1965 in Huntsville, Alabama. I lived 5 miles from that test stand and it could be heard all over the city.

    • @MisterLiftoff
      @MisterLiftoff  Рік тому +3

      Wow, I guess it was an incredible experience to hear that awesome roar during these static test firings!

    • @garykirkham1389
      @garykirkham1389 Рік тому

      @@MisterLiftoff It definitely was

    • @TasmanianTigerGrrr
      @TasmanianTigerGrrr 10 місяців тому

      did you go and watch?@@garykirkham1389

    • @donramonramirez5141
      @donramonramirez5141 10 місяців тому +1

      180 dB los escuchas en TODO EL CUERPO ... 👌😎🇦🇷

  • @thewilliam8342
    @thewilliam8342 8 місяців тому +15

    Almost 60 years later & still mind boggling !!!!

  • @Chessdaddy
    @Chessdaddy 8 місяців тому +17

    As a child, I lived almost 20 miles as the crow flies from where this took place. We could easily hear it and it shook the walls of our house, even from that distance. Amazingly loud & powerful.

    • @michaelf7093
      @michaelf7093 2 місяці тому +1

      This is in Michoud, but I grew up near Redstone, where tons of other engines were tested. It was very loud.

    • @kellyatkins9064
      @kellyatkins9064 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@michaelf7093 not sure if this test is in Huntsville or Mississippi, but they tested the first stage engines at both places.

    • @michaelf7093
      @michaelf7093 2 місяці тому

      @@kellyatkins9064 For F-1s, it would have been in Michoud. Huntsville would test smaller engines, and also do dimensional tests on test article stages.

  • @Chessdaddy
    @Chessdaddy 2 місяці тому +8

    That test was done in Huntsville about 20 miles from my house. We could clearly hear it and it rattled all the walls & windows. Just an incredible amount of power.

  • @MrGruffteddybear
    @MrGruffteddybear 5 місяців тому +14

    The Saturn V was a beast. And no catastrophic failures ever.

    • @gamering2354
      @gamering2354 4 місяці тому

      apollo 13

    • @MrGruffteddybear
      @MrGruffteddybear 4 місяці тому +11

      @@gamering2354 The service module that exploded on Apollo 13 was not a part of the Saturn V rocket. The Saturn V consisted of three stages S-1C, S-II, and the S-IVB (3rd stage). The command and service module along with the LM were the payload the rocket carried into orbit. 🚀

    • @ДальзерКильсина
      @ДальзерКильсина 2 місяці тому

      Комнатным. Кастрированным. Сатурн 5 был и есть маломощный хлам. Поэтому то сейчас этот никчёмный движок и ракету и не пытаются повторить.

    • @MrGruffteddybear
      @MrGruffteddybear 2 місяці тому +2

      @@ДальзерКильсина The Saturn 5 was and is low-power junk? Got us to the moon first, and repeatedly ahead of the Soviet Union who never got a manned mission there at all. And the reason the F1 engines aren't in use today is the F1 engines were one use and done. NASA switched to reusable engines with the space shuttle and the technology of rocket of rocket building has advanced way beyond the F1.

    • @ДальзерКильсина
      @ДальзерКильсина 2 місяці тому

      @@MrGruffteddybear это всё сказочка. Лживая сказочка о высадке людей на Луну. Все фото и видео о "высадке" фейковые. И двигатели эти такие же фейковые. "Лунные" ракеты на этом движке даже атмосферу не покидали.

  • @mussarelinhagames146
    @mussarelinhagames146 Рік тому +59

    its so sad we can't build these anymore, what an era....

    • @OrsonKrennic57
      @OrsonKrennic57 Рік тому +2

      Yeah you're right

    • @jeffreyalston8647
      @jeffreyalston8647 Рік тому +1

      It took several decades but NASA and SpaceX are finally going back ua-cam.com/video/xlo1xQneAEA/v-deo.html

    • @scheldon2244
      @scheldon2244 Рік тому +13

      Rocketdyne actually proposed building a modern rendition of the F-1, or the F-1B for SLS as a workhorse for a Liquid Rocket Booster. It would’ve resembled an upscaled SpaceX Merlin-1D if built. Unfortunately, this didn’t get off the ground as the SLS evolution plan changed.

    • @machinist7230
      @machinist7230 Рік тому +3

      @@scheldon2244 Reportedly, the proposed F1b was even more powerful than the original at 1.8 million lbs of thrust.

    • @bboi1489
      @bboi1489 Рік тому +2

      It was only meant for the moon missions. Plus, it's expensive asf and literally has a 10% failure rate. Goodbye Saturn, hello, SLS!

  • @krischan67
    @krischan67 9 місяців тому +15

    The loudest man-made sound apart from nukes. It's gorgeous!
    By the way, each of the fuel pumps of the five F1 engines have 55,000 horsepowers. The fuel pumps!

    • @ZilogBob
      @ZilogBob 8 місяців тому +2

      3 tons of fuel per engine, per second wasn't it?

    • @andystevenson5067
      @andystevenson5067 7 місяців тому +2

      That’s INSANE

    • @joevignolor4u949
      @joevignolor4u949 7 місяців тому +3

      @@ZilogBob The number is correct but it's actually about 3 tons of propellant, not just fuel. A single F-1 burned 5,683 pounds (2,578 kg) of oxidizer and fuel per second. (3,945 lb (1,789 kg) of liquid oxygen and 1,738 lb (788 kg) of RP-1 Fuel). The engine accelerated that amount of propellent through the nozzle going from O mph to 1,000 mph between the injector plate and the open end of the engine bell, a distance of only 18.5 feet. Accelerating that amount of mass to that velocity produced 1.5 million lbs of thrust.

    • @ZilogBob
      @ZilogBob 7 місяців тому +1

      @@joevignolor4u949 I always assumed that the oxidiser is considered to be one component of the fuel. It's all in the definitions.

    • @joevignolor4u949
      @joevignolor4u949 7 місяців тому +1

      The proper term is propellant pumps. Even NASA gets this wrong. They called the space shuttle's propellant tank the "external fuel tank", but that term is not accurate. If the external tank was only carrying fuel, the shuttle would never have gone anywhere.

  • @shreyas7336
    @shreyas7336 Рік тому +10

    The outer gimballing is honestly amazing for something of that power

    • @Zacharysharkhazard
      @Zacharysharkhazard Рік тому +3

      the Saturn V was honestly an engineering masterpiece of it’s era. They pushed technological and material boundaries to their very limits, and made a vehicle that has taken *50 years* to be shown up.

    • @MrGruffteddybear
      @MrGruffteddybear 4 місяці тому

      @@Zacharysharkhazard I remember some dialogue in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon when James Webb is asking if we can achieve President Kennedy’s directive, and the answer was, “We’ll need thousands of people, special facilities, technology and material that haven’t been invented yet.” Webb asks again, “Can we do it?” And the answer was, “Yes. Absolutely. We have to.” I am still amazed at how all the pieces came together in a relatively short amount of time. Kudos to all who worked on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. 😊

  • @milolopezvlogs5368
    @milolopezvlogs5368 Рік тому +12

    At least we get to hear what the F-1 actually sounds:)

  • @sammencia7945
    @sammencia7945 8 місяців тому +17

    You'll never hear something like this.
    At a distance of 10 miles it was deafening and made your trouser legs flap.

  • @montylc2001
    @montylc2001 9 місяців тому +7

    I thought for a second that the piece of paper...or whatever it was...that floated in front of the camera was a cat...

  • @msobert4
    @msobert4 9 місяців тому +3

    Beautiful flame 🔥 color
    some much engineering put in this 😊

  • @stevenstair1068
    @stevenstair1068 7 місяців тому +8

    It's hard to believe they just don't rip the mounts right out of the ground!!!

  • @lovetoall8852
    @lovetoall8852 7 місяців тому +3

    That's the literal meaning of the word awesome!!

  • @nicholasmarino1733
    @nicholasmarino1733 10 місяців тому +6

    Hi, now that the engineers had their fun, the engines must be taken apart and inspected for any damage before they may go into space,

  • @ZilogBob
    @ZilogBob 8 місяців тому +3

    Now that is *impressive*!!!

  • @goodgremlinmedia2757
    @goodgremlinmedia2757 Рік тому +19

    And starship is twice the power. I wanna see it on that test stand

    • @MisterLiftoff
      @MisterLiftoff  Рік тому +16

      I don't like the "Starship" project. The first flight wasn't a real success at all. It has been a very dangerous testflight and it was a completely stupid idea to launch such a big and powerful rocket without a necessary flame trench and especially without a big sound suppression water system! And by the way, Mars shouldn't be the goal for human settlement for many reasons! Maybe Mr. Musk isn't the smart guy he wants to be... I have my doubt's about him.

    • @jeb156
      @jeb156 Рік тому +2

      Gotta admit he's ambitious. Stupid, maybe. But certainly ambitious.
      Oh, and bloody rich.

    • @goodgremlinmedia2757
      @goodgremlinmedia2757 Рік тому +1

      @@MisterLiftoff most if not all those issues have been addressed

    • @supertornadogun1690
      @supertornadogun1690 Рік тому

      @@goodgremlinmedia2757 Not the cost one

    • @arpitagrawal9631
      @arpitagrawal9631 Рік тому +7

      ​​@@MisterLiftoffTime will tell us if your criticism has merit.
      Just to point out, NASA and space x follow a very different approach in the development of rockets. NASA being a government agency can't afford a loss but private companies like space x can. They follow the method of hit and trial. So far spacex's approach has been quite successful.

  • @hoedemakerbart
    @hoedemakerbart 9 днів тому

    Al 5 engines combined consume an Olympic size swimming pool in 2 minutes

    • @Jimmysage3273
      @Jimmysage3273 5 днів тому

      That’s slower than I thought actually. Thanks for putting that into perspective.

  • @guitarshredddddder91
    @guitarshredddddder91 8 місяців тому +6

    Ya like going fast kid?
    Get in.

  • @emtee40
    @emtee40 5 днів тому

    Legit camera box

  • @danielvitullo7104
    @danielvitullo7104 2 роки тому +3

    Awesome

  • @TasmanianTigerGrrr
    @TasmanianTigerGrrr 7 місяців тому +3

    That dark band of gas that hasnt fully ignited is moving crazy fast just below the nozzle

    • @peterjensen6844
      @peterjensen6844 7 місяців тому +7

      That's not gas that hasn't ignited. That's the turbine pump exhaust that's dumped in around the inner edge of the bell housing. It's cooler so less heat risk to the bell.

    • @ryelor123
      @ryelor123 6 місяців тому

      That's soot. They ran extra rich. I don't remember the reason but I think it was to keep them from burning up.

    • @fromnorway643
      @fromnorway643 6 місяців тому +1

      @@ryelor123
      The gas generators powering the turbopumps ran very fuel rich to keep the temperature low enough to avoid melting the turbines. That exhaust was then used to cool the outer part of the nozzles and also added 18-20,000 pounds of extra thrust to each engine's 1.5 million.

  • @kingjungsu
    @kingjungsu 9 місяців тому +3

    대박. 가슴이 웅장해진다.

  • @struanrobertson3417
    @struanrobertson3417 7 місяців тому +2

    Epic

  • @bsodgamer1234
    @bsodgamer1234 Рік тому +4

    maybe 10000 ge90s

  • @ATINKERER
    @ATINKERER Рік тому +1

    Could someone tell me why the F1 does not seem to have a converging section and throat?

    • @shreyas7336
      @shreyas7336 Рік тому

      There is one, it's just not visible because of the testing stand

    • @ATINKERER
      @ATINKERER Рік тому

      @@shreyas7336 Thanks for the response, but I've seen pictures of the F1 on the ground and not on any testing stand. I've also seen diagrams of the F1, and no converging section or throat is viable to me.

    • @shreyas7336
      @shreyas7336 Рік тому +1

      @@ATINKERER sorry yes you are right, because it's just the injector plate and then the nozzle. my guess would be that even if it isn't a traditional 'de Laval' nozzle, there is still an expansion ration as the engine widens, which should generate the thrust required

    • @ATINKERER
      @ATINKERER Рік тому

      @@shreyas7336 I had the same thought. Maybe they were pumping in so much fuel that the flow went supersonic leaving the combustion chamber. Otherwise the expansion section would be useless in a subsonic flow. It just seems odd to me, and I'd like an informed explanation.

    • @stevelawrie8265
      @stevelawrie8265 Рік тому +1

      @@ATINKERERthe flow rate into each engine was around 400 gallons of liquid oxygen and 250 gallons of RP1, every second.

  • @audionmusic2787
    @audionmusic2787 16 днів тому +2

    Slide rules and graph paper. Chalk on slate. The mighty minds these people had, far stronger than ours today. Why? As technology is created to do intellectual tasks for us, we lose the ability to do such tasks for ourselves. Use it or lose it. Today, we have lost the majority of what took us centuries to learn. Today, our engineers couldn’t build any aircraft or spacecraft using the same tools the Apollo Team used.
    So in a sense, Progress halted decades ago and we are living in an era of Decay.
    Learn to do multiplication in your head. Put down the calculator. Add those items by hand. It’s time we bring back our brains. 🧠

    • @MisterLiftoff
      @MisterLiftoff  11 днів тому +1

      I absolutely agree with you and many thank's for your feedback!

  • @ThJbomb
    @ThJbomb 8 місяців тому +4

    I'm gonna need all yall to go ahead and put catalytic convertors on your cars.

  • @محمدرجب-ه9ف5ف
    @محمدرجب-ه9ف5ف 5 місяців тому +1

    اشترك وتفعيل زار الجرس والمذيد والمذيد والمذيد والمذيد والمذيد من العمل وتصنيع السحاب والأجواء المرعبه

  • @محمدرجب-ه9ف5ف
    @محمدرجب-ه9ف5ف 5 місяців тому

    اشترك وتفعيل زار الجرس والعمل والنشاطات والمذيد والمذيد والمذيد والمذيد والمذيد والمذيد والمذيد من الأجواء المرعبه.

  • @ryelor123
    @ryelor123 6 місяців тому +10

    What beautiful engines. I don't care how efficient staged combustion engines are, the F1s were all custom-tuned works of powerful art. A metaphor for the post-war optimism that was murdered by the 1970s.

  • @mrz80
    @mrz80 8 місяців тому +12

    How brutally strong did they have to build that test stand to keep those engines from ripping it loose of the ground when they lit off? 😀

    • @Turboy65
      @Turboy65 7 місяців тому

      At least 7.5 million pounds tensile strength, to counteract that much thrust.

    • @Katniss218
      @Katniss218 6 місяців тому

      @@Turboy65or 7.5 million pounds of weight on top, which is not a lot in the grand scheme of things

  • @Aeasala
    @Aeasala Рік тому +17

    so beautifully powerful it's almost horrifying

    • @ovalhunter488
      @ovalhunter488 Рік тому +1

      As a kid watching these fly on the east coast, not only was a wowed by the power generated but how they were able to control the rocket to such an incredible level of precision.

  • @earthstewardude
    @earthstewardude 7 місяців тому +7

    Burgers broiled with the F1 on full blast!

  • @龍-d7h
    @龍-d7h 3 місяці тому +6

    ロケット様がお怒り

  • @uranus5213
    @uranus5213 6 місяців тому +7

    What is the black gas coming out from the Engines? Is the exhaust pumped in the nozzle extension as Ablator or smth?

    • @thebackyardspaceprogram
      @thebackyardspaceprogram 6 місяців тому +12

      The engines have a gas generator that powers the pump and since it generates excess gas, it goes around the nozzle in the manifold and it cools it. So that black gas is actually gas generator gas for nozzle cooling!

    • @jimmcmahon217
      @jimmcmahon217 5 місяців тому +6

      The gas generator ran fuel-rich, thus it's exhaust was relatively cool and sooty black. As it "cooled" (a relative term) the nozzle walls, it mixed with the main exhaust which completed it's combustion.

  • @markfranks4422
    @markfranks4422 5 місяців тому +5

    Raw power at its core. What a ride that must have been for those crews. Awesome!!!!!!!

  • @michaelkeaton5394
    @michaelkeaton5394 Рік тому +7

    What a sound

  • @derekwall200
    @derekwall200 Рік тому +14

    imagine being right where the camera is sitting. the amount of noise being produced by all 5 engines would alone be enough to kill a person

    • @ayoubbelatrous9914
      @ayoubbelatrous9914 Рік тому +5

      100 meters away unshielded would kill a person or severely injure them. 800 meters away still deafens you.

    • @鐽
      @鐽 Рік тому +1

      @@ayoubbelatrous9914 damn, what about inside?

    • @ayoubbelatrous9914
      @ayoubbelatrous9914 Рік тому +4

      @@鐽 the cockpit is shielded + its 100 meters up.

  • @craigarmstrong5291
    @craigarmstrong5291 7 місяців тому +5

    The most powerful engines ever built 🎉

    • @Akrplinn358
      @Akrplinn358 7 місяців тому

      How does it compare to the GE9X jet engine?

    • @poopstick924
      @poopstick924 6 місяців тому +1

      They're not, the rd 170 is the most powerful rocket engine ever built

    • @poopstick924
      @poopstick924 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Akrplinn358 the f1 rocket engine produces over 15 times as much thrust as the GE9X does

    • @elephant35e
      @elephant35e 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Akrplinn358
      GE9X: 110,000 lbs of thrust
      F-1: 1,522,000 lbs of thrust
      The F-1 is 13.8 times as powerful as the GE9X.

  • @rollingthunder277
    @rollingthunder277 9 місяців тому +4

    I had no idea there was only a single articulating motor...but that still makes sense. Only one has to move to change trajectory. Thanks for the video

    • @patturk7408
      @patturk7408 9 місяців тому +1

      I think this is on a test stand. The Saturn V had the four outer engines gimble with the center engine fixed. You could get by (maybe) with only a center engine gimble, but then you have to have additional roll control.

    • @rollingthunder277
      @rollingthunder277 9 місяців тому +1

      Makes sense. Thank you for your input.@@patturk7408

    • @0accipiters0
      @0accipiters0 3 місяці тому

      @@patturk7408yes, this is on a test stand at stennis, B-1 or B-2

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 4 місяці тому +3

    Far out!👍🚀

  • @YUKISEI-cn3eg
    @YUKISEI-cn3eg 9 місяців тому +2

    1MOTOR DE FOGUETE

  • @TDog-ic7do
    @TDog-ic7do Рік тому +2

    Woh.

  • @Will-ll4gv
    @Will-ll4gv 9 місяців тому +2

    What do they do with the thrust? Where does it go?

    • @Raptorman0909
      @Raptorman0909 9 місяців тому +2

      It's deflected sideways then the exhaust travels sideways through a flame trench. This is what SpaceX should be doing but isn't!

  • @sheltechllc
    @sheltechllc 5 місяців тому +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @eisernerrundfunk1
    @eisernerrundfunk1 Рік тому +1

    Soo ungefähr

  • @donramonramirez5141
    @donramonramirez5141 10 місяців тому

    Hay potencia ahi, ¿ no ? 👋👋👋👍

  • @MichaelTheRead
    @MichaelTheRead Місяць тому +2

    What's insane, to me, is that the sound you hear is mostly rushing air, not the sound of burning fuel; the amount of air this thing is pulling in to fuel the reaction is mindblowing.

    • @riven8890
      @riven8890 26 днів тому +3

      F-1 engines use LOX

    • @darylullman7083
      @darylullman7083 12 днів тому

      First stage carried about 320.000 gallons of liquid oxygen, used it up in two and a half minutes.