Apollo 11 Engines - Amazon CEO to Recover

[Jimbeaux]

Now here is a hobby for you.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/28/amazon-c...

[CBR JGWRR]

Another example of toys just getting bigger...

Still good though.

[Jimbeaux]

CBR JGWRR said:

Another example of toys just getting bigger...

Still good though.

[Crafty_]

Don't see the point really, even if they are from Apollo 11 they've been down there over 40 years, whatever is left will be junk..

[davepoth]

Crafty_ said:

Don't see the point really, even if they are from Apollo 11 they've been down there over 40 years, whatever is left will be junk..

Titanic has lasted fairly well, and I should think that the metals used would resist rusting better than steel.

[Eric Mc]

There are twelve more sets of Saturn V 1st stage engines down there if they are looking.

[HOGEPH]

Wouldn't it be easier to pop along to Kennedy Space Center, (admission $43+tax), and pick up a set from there?

[Eric Mc]

I think its the fact that these are the set from the 1st Stage of the Apollo 11 Saturn V that makes them interesting.

[Mojocvh]

Eric, well perhaps, that and the fact that them donkeys were originally designed to be recovered from the sea and reused.

But after 40 yrs, boys and their toys...

[Eric Mc]

Why not. They've got the money.

I think it's great that people have the resources to go after such quests.

I'm looking forward to the recovery of the Dornier 17 off the sea bed of the Channel.

[Ozzie Osmond]

Mojocvh said:

them donkeys were originally designed to be recovered from the sea and reused.

Naaah, I don't think they'd pass modern emissions tests!

[Eric Mc]

They certainly leave a lovely brown trail of kerosene smoke. I bet they smelled lovely too.

[Ayahuasca]

Eric Mc said:

I'm looking forward to the recovery of the Dornier 17 off the sea bed of the Channel.

O/T but whatever happened to that P-38 someone found on a beach in north Wales?



A used Saturn 5 engine would make a nice coffee table mount.




Although hitting the ocean, water pressure 14,000 feet down and salt water might have scratched it a bit.

[eharding]

The library at my school - this was thirty plus years ago - had a copy of a magnificent NASA publication detailing aspects of the Apollo programme.

It was about four inches thick, set in an eye-wateringly small font, with the occasional detailed photograph or diagram.

I worked my way through it, didn't understand most of it, but still remember being in awe of the fact the engines needing turbo-pumps burning the same rocket fuel as the main motor.

Slightly old-hat now, and even back then, but any PistonHead who doesn't appreciate the concept of a fuel-pump that generates 55,000 horsepower - so that the main engine can convert hyrdrocarbons into rock-and-roll at an apocalyptic rate - and thinks that owning one of those engines (no matter how knackered) isn't a worthy goal...well, they should probably retreat to Mumsnet, and stay there.

[MartG]

Ayahuasca said:

A used Saturn 5 engine would make a nice coffee table mount.

How big is your house ? They're 18' 6" high !

[Ayahuasca]

MartG said:

Ayahuasca said:

A used Saturn 5 engine would make a nice coffee table mount.

How big is your house ? They're 18' 6" high !

I wasn't being entirely serious!

[DamienB]

Practice run...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17572030

[RobDickinson]

They are made out of very corrosion resistant materials, superalloys, aluminum, stainless steel etc. They woul dhave taken a whack when they hit the sea though but well worth recovering.

[Drclarke]

HOGEPH said:

Wouldn't it be easier to pop along to Kennedy Space Center, (admission $43+tax), and pick up a set from there?

Pick one up from the gift shop along with a smelly rubber and a 'I went to Kennedy Space Centre and all I got was this lousy T Shirt' shirt

[lord summerisle]

Ayahuasca said:

I wasn't being entirely serious!

i was thinking a nice centre piece in my mansion, the grand staircase climbing around it