Another sense of scale
Feb. 18th, 2015 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tbutlerRemember the Saturn V?
Well, the Saturn V replica? (In an interesting bit of history, it was built specifically to drum up tourist business, and was something of a gamble.) This is the real thing.
Well, the tail end of it.
Now, see that black-and-white rocket in the background? That's a V-2, the first mass-produced rocket, and arguably the first 'modern' rocket. (Display replica, in the pattern used by the Army when testing captured V-2's at the White Sands Missile Range.)
Notice how it's not all that much taller than just one of the F-1 rocket engines on the Saturn V? And how the F-1's nozzle is actually wider than the entire V-2?
Well, the Saturn V replica? (In an interesting bit of history, it was built specifically to drum up tourist business, and was something of a gamble.) This is the real thing.
Well, the tail end of it.
Now, see that black-and-white rocket in the background? That's a V-2, the first mass-produced rocket, and arguably the first 'modern' rocket. (Display replica, in the pattern used by the Army when testing captured V-2's at the White Sands Missile Range.)
Notice how it's not all that much taller than just one of the F-1 rocket engines on the Saturn V? And how the F-1's nozzle is actually wider than the entire V-2?
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Date: 2015-02-18 08:10 pm (UTC)