Found this Little Gem

[Dr_SLO]

I was in need of an additional podcast to break up the monotony whilst doing chores and found this engineering podcast (Omegatau) fantastic.

http://omegataupodcast.net/239-the-saturn-v-launch-vehicle/

This episode has the author David Woods discuss his latest book about the Saturn V launch vehicle with the host Markus Voelter.

I'll certainly be checking out the archive and listening to more discussion on engineering topics past and present.

 

[budman]

opcorn = bookmark.

I need a weekend day to give this a go.

 

[bergmen]

I'm a Saturn V junkie but have no idea how to listen to a podcast. Yes, I'm an old codger and just read books about them (of which I have several, including this latest edition):



Dan

 

[oobus]

I love this stuff as well. When I worked at Delco in Santa Barbara, some of my older workmates worked on the Saturn Program. Great group of guys that treated a young snot nosed guy well. I ended up with a bearing puller that was used on the Lunar Rover.
It's interesting as everyone always thinks that things launched into space are "state of the art", when in reality, since it has to be the most reliable product ever built, it is usually old tried and true technology. In 1989 my project was converting the bubble memory in the Flight Computer of the Titan IV to Solid State....They were still using an IMU with a rotating gimbal assembly at that time. The amount of paperwork that was generated for one of these boxes was unbelievable. It literally weighted more that the product.

Got to watch several launches at Vandenberg and visit the Space Shuttle Complex there too!

 

[jt2]

The Saturn V was an amazing feat of engineering given the technology of the day - same could be said for the entire Apollo program. 7.5 million pounds of thrust on the first stage. :shocker

I was in Orlando last year for a conference, and did I take a day to go to the KSC to see it? Yes, I did. :teeth

 

[Butch]

you are such a geek. As are we all. Well, a bunch of us.
(note, I was a victim of a series of accidents)

 

[bergmen]

At launch, the Saturn V at full thrust created a man-made earthquake that could be measured by seismographs as far away as New York City.

Mind boggling...

Dan

 

[Butch]

Just on the other side of Metcalf mocyko park was United Technologies, Chemical Systems Division, later called Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsions Operations. A lot of history there.

Any of you guys part of it?

 

[littlebeast]

worked with both delco, and UTC back in the day (prime contractor on several projects). boys with some serious fucking toys. those were the days. :thumbup :laughing

 

[Dr_SLO]

I'm a Saturn V junkie but have no idea how to listen to a podcast. Yes, I'm an old codger and just read books about them (of which I have several, including this latest edition):



Dan

There's a Haynes Manual for everything! There's two ways to listen to the podcast; you can download the mp3 file (essentially an audio file) to your favorite electronic device or use the link on the page and it'll play directly.

 

[TylerW]

Just on the other side of Metcalf mocyko park was United Technologies, Chemical Systems Division, later called Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsions Operations. A lot of history there.

Any of you guys part of it?

Pratt & Whitney, the manufacturer of my favorite engine anywhere, anytime.

 

[Dr_SLO]

The Saturn V was an amazing feat of engineering given the technology of the day - same could be said for the entire Apollo program. 7.5 million pounds of thrust on the first stage. :shocker

I was in Orlando last year for a conference, and did I take a day to go to the KSC to see it? Yes, I did. :teeth

I've also had the wonderful opportunity to visit this amazing piece of engineering at KSC. It truly is awe-inspiring. One of my favorite statistics is that close to 95% of the weight of the vehicle was fuel :shocker

 

[bergmen]

Pratt & Whitney, the manufacturer of my favorite engine anywhere, anytime.

Looks like a J58 drawing (engine on Lockheed SR-71).

Dan

 

[bergmen]

There's a Haynes Manual for everything! There's two ways to listen to the podcast; you can download the mp3 file (essentially an audio file) to your favorite electronic device or use the link on the page and it'll play directly.

Thanks!

This one was published recently (2016) and includes some amazing info such as the recovery of one of the F-1 engines from the bottom of the Atlantic that was on the Apollo 11 first stage.

Other fun facts:

1) Each F-1 engine, at full thrust, consumed more than 2 metric tons of highly refined kerosene and liquid oxygen per second.

2) Costing millions of dollars each and over a year to build, the service life of the S-1C (first stage) was 150 seconds and then it was discarded to fall into the Atlantic Ocean. It lifted the rest of the spacecraft to an altitude of about 200,000 feet and a speed of about 6,000 mph.

Dan