I agree but I reiterate, this was war and the nazi's cared little about
safety especially when they were losing that war.
BTW, here's a good video by Scott Manley about the Starship launch which
includes good shots of the crater dig by the engine blast.
Pretty impressive.
https://youtu.be/w8q24QLXixo
On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 2:43 AM Bruno Berger <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
yep, the liquid boils of fast, but the GOX once having saturated the
porous material stays in the material for surprising long time and
therefore makes it a flammable or even an explosive material.
That's why I always force my students to wear non porous clothes/aprons
etc when handling LOX (Along with other stuff like insulated non porous
gloves, face shields, non synthetic clothes underneath the apron to avoid
electrostatic discharges and in the event of fire the molten plastics does
not burn itself through the skin etc)
Bruno
Am 23.04.23 um 10:45 schrieb roxanna Mason:
LOX on decayed tree matter should cause a nice fire?
The liquid rapidly boils off leaving only gas, and frozen organic matter
isn't very porous so minimal fire risk once the liquid is gone
plus this was war.
Yes, I love those old models, pretty accurate reproductions. The US copied
the design in the Redstone
and Jupiter C launchers.
Ken
On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:42 AM Uwe Klein <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Am 23.04.23 um 02:55 schrieb roxanna Mason:
, but they couldn't find the
truck-convoy V-2 launch teams.)
In reading the V-2 book by Dornburger, he said they would spray the
forest floor with LOx to freeze the ground so it would stand the weight
of a loaded V-2 and launch pedestal.
remembering my Revell model set :-)
that was an "inverted aerospike" / tip upside concave cone
and some supports at the guide vane tip diameter.
LOX on decayed tree matter should cause a nice fire?
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