| To: | Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@lubricationdynamics.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Turbine HP |
| From: | Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@earthlink.net> |
| Date: | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:49:49 -0800 |
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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