Bryan;
The Corporal IIB missile that I worked on during that same time period
used pressurized fuel & oxidizer tanks-- no turbopumps at all.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bryan Savage
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:50 PM
To: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing
Cc: DrMayf; Mike Lackey; LandSpeed
Subject: Re: Turbine HP
The Atlas booster's turbopump was a little thing and it was rated at
about 1,500 hp. As I recall, the turbine and the LPGG (Liquid Propellant
Gas Generator) would fit in a 5 gal can. Service life was something like
200 seconds.
Bryan (really stretching the old memory, I worked on the Atlas F
program in '61 & '62)
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