All right. I was worried something happened to him. We a have a refreshed v2 exhibit at the cosmosphere at hutchinson, kansas. His videos have helped to appreciate the display so much more. Thank you very much!!
Thanks, and good to hear about the V2 exhibit. It depends on what you mean; something did happen to me, I got four years older and five minutes wiser, and we all lived through the strange and unwelcome period of the pandemic. But I'm still fiddling with old rockets, so in that regard... KR RJD A&NTV
This was absolutely SUPERB!! Well done, and worth the long wait! So much excellent analysis and loved the experimental aspects with gyroscopes and more. I will pass this on to all my fellow rocket enthusiasts !!
It felt like Christmas was here when I saw this video posted. I love the first video and this I believe is even better. I wish I had had you as a mechanical engineering teacher! You have a wonderful mind for being able to present the examples that explain very complex mechanisms and how they operate. My sincere thanks to you!
My first wife's father was a project manager on the turbo pumps for the space shuttles main engines. I regret that I wasn't more interested in the subject at the time, because I am facinated by it now, and I love your videos. Rocketdyne was literally right down the street from my house, and in fact we were on the same street, Canoga Ave., my house was 4430, RD was 6633. More than a few of my friends parents woked there as well.
Yay. This is one of my favorite TH-cam channels. Excellent use of models, diagrams and archive footage. The way you present this makes every bit of the V2 fascinating. With proper explanation one can appreciate all the design considerations they had to make for this rocket to function. Hats off for your effort.
Great Information. At 1.30,22 the drawing notes „verstemmt“ which would mean peened or pinned but not glued as you suggested. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Near my hometown we have had several launchsites. Antwerp was the target from here. Thank you again ! 👍🏻
I just realized this is only a month old. God the times I've watched part one and wondered about part 2. I've never been more interested in pumps than i am right now.
The centrifugal overspeed trip is still used today. For instance a GE Frame 6 gas turbine generator uses a centrifugally activated weight mounted on one of the shafts of the accessory gearbox to trip a hydraulic valve and dump pressure to the normally closed fuel valves. With no pressure, springs force the valves closed, cutting off fuel.
Without doubt, the Astronomy and Nature TV's channel on the design and development of the A4/V2 is the most well-researched and presented series of videos on TH-cam. The comprehensive use of models, real artefacts, period film footage and design drawings to explain how the rocket worked is second to none. Simply superb!
The answer to Mr. Edson's question is , Yes! PDE (Pulse Detonation Engines) and aerospikes. I love your videos! You're an awesome human being and a credit to the whole human race. Thank you for sharing your obsessions with us!
What a great deep dive into the technical bits of rocket history. Your use of simplified models make a complex subject much more comprehensible. Thank you for your hard work Mr. Dalby.
Fantastic! You really are an expert. Really enjoyed the level of detail you went into. Today’s mainstream tv documentaries are dumbed down. Thanks for taking all the time & effort to produce this
YOUR BACK!!!!!! holy moly im so excited to watch another one of your videos! I absolutely love watching every single one of your videos multiple times over! So glad to see a part 2, thank you so much for your amazing videos!
Very impressive and interesting video!!!!! Great!! Thanks! Schnellschluss Ventil: schluss comes from schliessen, to close, so quick closure valve. Unburnt cooling fuel can very nicely been seen in the Saturn 5 footages as a black shadow.
yes. i thought that too. i have a mechanical engineering degree but was still fearful this would be far too advanced for me. instead, it was a pleasure to watch and a reminder that people who really know their onions can explain complicated ideas simply and not blind you with science unnecessarily.
Fabulous information, well worth the wait. I'm in awe of the engineering that went into that rocket during a time a war was being conducted and many other projects in the works simultaneously.
I hope this goes without saying, but I greatly appreciate your use of practical and understandable demonstrations to give insight to and explain complex phenomenon. While it's undoubtedly far more costly (both monetarily and in time) than throwing together a PowerPoint or write up, particularly for such a technical subject, your style of teaching/explanation is far more effective at both facilitating a 'true' understanding for the viewer while watching the video as well as (and possibly more importantly) retaining that understanding after watching the video. If I was the Royal Institution I'd be begging you to give lecture(s) for their TH-cam channel! This content deserves far more exposure than it receives in my opinion, thanks for the great video and keep up the fantastic work! c:
IT’S FINALLY HERE!!!! Thank you for all your hard work, that was absolutely fantastic! I learned a lot and your demonstrations are phenomenal. Keep it up, can’t wait for more content!
Curiously you said "and on June, 20th 1944 it became the first human made object to pass the 100km Kárman line" and I notice I was watching this video at June 20, 2024, exactly 80 years later.
Awesome video, though "schnellschluss" should be translated fast closure or even better "quick Closing". Schluss can also mean end or ending in General, but not in this case. Looking Forward to more V2 Videos.
What a pleasant surprise I got this morning seeing this video in my to watch. You do such a fantastic and throurough job in explaining how these machines worked...and yea, that sound of the turbopump spinning up does sound like a wild beast. I have zero doubt that creature in the clip was "voiced" by that V2 at White Sands. Also though, a similar sound is heard from the Titan II engines as the spin up for the Gemini fliights. Again, great video.
That's incredible. I never considered the gyroscopic effect turbo pumps and fuel pumps would have on a rocket. It's extremely obvious now that you've said something. Can't wait to watch the rest of the video to hear you explain it.
Hi there and thanks for watching and commenting. As I'm sure you know, languages are living things; they drift with time. These days I always consult with more sources than Google and Deepl for translations, including native-speaker colleagues and of-the-era dictionaries. My oldest Cassel's German English dictionary was published in 1888 (old for us, not so much for them) and translates 'Verstemmt' as calking or caulked. And in this case, I think that's what the drawing/production office meant. The linguistic point could be debated at length, I'm sure. But the engineering point is that there is nothing to the part that needs pressing in place, whereas they did use a locking compound and screws to fasten it (the cement compound or glue was to eliminate the possibility of movement that might precipitate loosening). Thanks for posting. This is probably the only one of this type of linguistic/translation corrections I'm going to reply to for the time being - there are others and many more will follow, but I feel the above points adequately state my position. Again thanks for posting. KR RJD A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet As a german engineer, the method of securing the part interests me greatly. The idea of using a cement or glue in a high vibration/high temperature environment sounded risky. But translating "verstemmen" as a press fit or securing the screw by denting the rim with a punch, would make more sense to me and be approriate for the era (as far as my limited knowledge goes). Nevertheless, I didn't mean to phrase it as a "Well actually ...". I genuinely thank you for putting the video together.
I wanted to point that out too. As an enginner, I never heard the term, I had to look it up. The German wiki says it involves plastic deformation. And the root of the word "stemmen" also evokes applying a force, rather than applying a cement, at least to a current speaker. I never would have thought to consult historical sources for that, but this seems to be the right way.
German native speaker, mechanically inclined: verstemmen is exactly what pugnate 666 says: securing the position for example of a threaded junction by mechanically denting one part with a punch or a chisel, so that the parts cannot come apart. Correct for the period, where things like loctite were not yet invented ( or wouldn’t work anyway because of heat)
Robert, super results. I know how much work one of your productions requires and I must say that you outdid yourself. Your humor spots were not lost on me either! -Tracy
This kind of material would've been wonders to watch when I was a child. When I was a child in the 2000's, it seemed most technical stuff directed towards children was unsophisticated. Don't get me started on the NASA channel. Your work in regards to the V2's details and the science behind it is a breath of fresh air! P.S. Can you make a short of the turbopump sound? That alone gave me chills and a nervous laugh/cry.
I really like your videos, I think unique in it's kind. Like all the modeling. A rocket always rotates around it's Center of gravity. Sometimes model rocketeers also do a swing test to see if a rocket is stable. They put a string in the center of gravity and swing it around and see if it flies forward.
I don't even know what to say... Here in Africa 🌍 getting ro see a rocket is like a journey to Jupiter.. let alone understanding the physics and operation of one 😢. But i love it and the only one who is helping me is you. God bless you in abundance and please if i can chat you personally it will be a dream come true. Thank you and more blessings
I'm a diesel mechanic and I really enjoyed this although I keep getting disturbed by the family and have to go back time and again and I guess it's helped me a great deal because playing around with engines basically involves improving combustion and increasing efficiency and getting better stoichiometric efficiency. The scale of the processes are quite staggering though. The quantity of fuel and oxygen going through the system is staggering to me. Thanks for your excellent explanation and I'm subscribing to this channel and will check out your previous posts because this subject is very interesting.
Very fun very cool. I think there should probably be a banner running along the bottom reminding everybody who it was who built this, why and their horror. Also the temporal fitment of this video is interesting on a couple orthogonal levels.
First of all , a very detailed video - thank you 39:02 Schlagring - the word "schlagen" in technical view also means something that rotates out of center or out of balnace. "Schlagring" means a ring that rotates out of center.
Such a great video. I'm pretty sure that they used the turbine overspeed shutdown on every flight as the rocket ran out of fuel so it was not destroyed by turbine overspeed before it hit its target.
Hi James. They had radio controlled shutdown, and later the more commonly used onboard Muller integrating gyroscopic accelerometer (MIGA) which shut the pump down when the range velocity had been achieved. But the timer (which could also shut the turbopump down independently) and the turbine overspeed switch was responsible for shutting the engine down on many occasions I think during the V2's combat period. I think the fall of shot data can be interpreted as lending some weight to this view. However, there are competing explainations of equal merit. Thanks for posting. KR RJD A&NTV
Wow, that exhaust spectrum at 1:02:53 is incredible! The heavy sodium and manganese lines from the Sodium Permanganate outshine everything, but it’s so cool to see the light potassium line at the top (probably from minor potassium contamination in the permanganate) and probably the most interesting of all is the bright calcium oxide line - where did it come from? The fuel was 75% alcohol, not anhydrous so they didn’t need to dry it using CaO, did they dilute anhydrous alcohol for control or purity? So interesting
A good analogy for how external combustion is contributing power is to imagine an explosive on a sandy beach. The explosive is largely going to expend its energy as a pressure wave through the air as its one of the paths but newtons laws of motion also state the equal and opposite reaction. The chemical energy is going to radiate in all directions (in 3 dimensions) so some of the energy MUST be directed into the ground/sand below the explosive charge, thus some sand is going to be displaced from the energy expenditure even though displacing the sand is more work than displacing the air. You can also consider military aircraft where the afterburner dumps fuel into a nearly fully oxidizer depleted jet column so most of that fuel is going to burn externally as the fuel encounters additional atmospheric oxygen to burn. If such external combustion did not work, you would not see it used in high performance aircraft.
Good god! I've watched Part 1 ten times over the years. This feels like the glory days of BBC science and OU. Wonderful.
there's a definite feel of Tim Hunkin when the simulated turbopump starts disassembling itself 😁
Out of all the "part 2"s that took forever to be released, this is one of the best and most appreciated!
All right. I was worried something happened to him. We a have a refreshed v2 exhibit at the cosmosphere at hutchinson, kansas. His videos have helped to appreciate the display so much more. Thank you very much!!
Thanks, and good to hear about the V2 exhibit. It depends on what you mean; something did happen to me, I got four years older and five minutes wiser, and we all lived through the strange and unwelcome period of the pandemic. But I'm still fiddling with old rockets, so in that regard... KR RJD A&NTV
This was absolutely SUPERB!! Well done, and worth the long wait! So much excellent analysis and loved the experimental aspects with gyroscopes and more. I will pass this on to all my fellow rocket enthusiasts !!
The German technicians back then were incredible, they were geniuses.
Utterly fascinating , excellently produced and brilliant subject knowledge.
It felt like Christmas was here when I saw this video posted. I love the first video and this I believe is even better. I wish I had had you as a mechanical engineering teacher! You have a wonderful mind for being able to present the examples that explain very complex mechanisms and how they operate. My sincere thanks to you!
My first wife's father was a project manager on the turbo pumps for the space shuttles main engines. I regret that I wasn't more interested in the subject at the time, because I am facinated by it now, and I love your videos. Rocketdyne was literally right down the street from my house, and in fact we were on the same street, Canoga Ave., my house was 4430, RD was 6633. More than a few of my friends parents woked there as well.
Bro just doxxed himself 😂😂😂
@@lukashohoff4200 lol😂😂😂
Past tense........
Yay. This is one of my favorite TH-cam channels. Excellent use of models, diagrams and archive footage. The way you present this makes every bit of the V2 fascinating. With proper explanation one can appreciate all the design considerations they had to make for this rocket to function. Hats off for your effort.
Ugh! I can’t believe I’m just seeing this now! I’ve been waiting for this part 2 FOREVER! So happy 🎉
My God, this second part was worth waiting for!
Outstanding presentation, Robert!
I promise to watch it several times, like part 1
Great Information. At 1.30,22 the drawing notes „verstemmt“ which would mean peened or pinned but not glued as you suggested.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Near my hometown we have had several launchsites. Antwerp was the target from here.
Thank you again ! 👍🏻
My own translation for 'Verstemt' would be 'clamped permanently with plastic deformation.'
I just realized this is only a month old. God the times I've watched part one and wondered about part 2. I've never been more interested in pumps than i am right now.
The centrifugal overspeed trip is still used today. For instance a GE Frame 6 gas turbine generator uses a centrifugally activated weight mounted on one of the shafts of the accessory gearbox to trip a hydraulic valve and dump pressure to the normally closed fuel valves. With no pressure, springs force the valves closed, cutting off fuel.
Please, please, please continue adding more insightful videos; can't get enough!
I can't believe this has finally come up in my feed! We're all a little greyer since the last instalment!
I have been waiting for this since 2019. Thanks for making this .. currently watching live 😍
Without doubt, the Astronomy and Nature TV's channel on the design and development of the A4/V2 is the most well-researched and presented series of videos on TH-cam. The comprehensive use of models, real artefacts, period film footage and design drawings to explain how the rocket worked is second to none. Simply superb!
We, here in the Turbopump Lovers Fan Club were waiting for this Part 2 for long time.. 😊 Well done, again! 🎉
I have no words. Magnificent video 👍👍👏👏
Brilliant demonstration and explanation.
All thumbs up 👍
Greetings from Germany
The answer to Mr. Edson's question is , Yes! PDE (Pulse Detonation Engines) and aerospikes. I love your videos! You're an awesome human being and a credit to the whole human race. Thank you for sharing your obsessions with us!
What a great deep dive into the technical bits of rocket history. Your use of simplified models make a complex subject much more comprehensible. Thank you for your hard work Mr. Dalby.
Fantastic! You really are an expert. Really enjoyed the level of detail you went into. Today’s mainstream tv documentaries are dumbed down. Thanks for taking all the time & effort to produce this
finally! part 2!
Your practical demonstrationskills at the bench are quite excellent in explaining things.
YOUR BACK!!!!!! holy moly im so excited to watch another one of your videos! I absolutely love watching every single one of your videos multiple times over! So glad to see a part 2, thank you so much for your amazing videos!
Hi and thanks. We never went away, so maybe think about subscribing so you don't miss anything new. KR RJD A&NTV
Love you in-depth videos. Thank for all the details and bringing to light the engineering challenges and how they were overcome.
I need to watch this at least a dozen times.😮
That was good, thanks, cant wait for next one. Still watching old ones when i need a refresh. 👍
I love these episodes!
Very impressive and interesting video!!!!! Great!! Thanks!
Schnellschluss Ventil: schluss comes from schliessen, to close, so quick closure valve.
Unburnt cooling fuel can very nicely been seen in the Saturn 5 footages as a black shadow.
Thank you for putting this together you have explained it in a way that an ordinary person can understand it
yes. i thought that too. i have a mechanical engineering degree but was still fearful this would be far too advanced for me. instead, it was a pleasure to watch and a reminder that people who really know their onions can explain complicated ideas simply and not blind you with science unnecessarily.
I really enjoy the technical details you cover with the complexity of how the V2 was built. 👍🚀🙂
This video, and its predecessor, are simply tours de force of historical engineering documentary. Remarkable, Robert and colleagues.
That was excellent! The sound track was amazing...
Another beautifully put-together video about one of my favourite engineering topics. Bloody well done!
Great video!
Fabulous information, well worth the wait. I'm in awe of the engineering that went into that rocket during a time a war was being conducted and many other projects in the works simultaneously.
Guidance and control is going to be so interesting
I hope this goes without saying, but I greatly appreciate your use of practical and understandable demonstrations to give insight to and explain complex phenomenon. While it's undoubtedly far more costly (both monetarily and in time) than throwing together a PowerPoint or write up, particularly for such a technical subject, your style of teaching/explanation is far more effective at both facilitating a 'true' understanding for the viewer while watching the video as well as (and possibly more importantly) retaining that understanding after watching the video.
If I was the Royal Institution I'd be begging you to give lecture(s) for their TH-cam channel! This content deserves far more exposure than it receives in my opinion, thanks for the great video and keep up the fantastic work! c:
Hi there, you had me at Royal Institution! Thanks for watching, and please subscribe so you don't miss our next effort. KR RJD A&NTV
Yay! My favorite youtube video has a follow-up.
Congratulations Robert, superb work. Many thanks.
Thank you for yet another amazing video.
1:21:44 this entire segment kept whispering in my cerebrum "aerospike ... aerospike."
Amazing documentary series. I can't turn it off!!
IT’S FINALLY HERE!!!! Thank you for all your hard work, that was absolutely fantastic! I learned a lot and your demonstrations are phenomenal. Keep it up, can’t wait for more content!
I would love a book collecting those blueprints he shows!
So they accidentally created the worlds first aerospike engine that worked as an afterburner!
Curiously you said "and on June, 20th 1944 it became the first human made object to pass the 100km Kárman line" and I notice I was watching this video at June 20, 2024, exactly 80 years later.
Awesome video, though "schnellschluss" should be translated fast closure or even better "quick Closing". Schluss can also mean end or ending in General, but not in this case. Looking Forward to more V2 Videos.
"schnellschluss" means
emergency shutsdown
Google the "Titan II screech"! It has to be my favourite spin up sound from the turbopumps at launch. It heralded the start of every Gemini mission 🚀
What a pleasant surprise I got this morning seeing this video in my to watch. You do such a fantastic and throurough job in explaining how these machines worked...and yea, that sound of the turbopump spinning up does sound like a wild beast. I have zero doubt that creature in the clip was "voiced" by that V2 at White Sands. Also though, a similar sound is heard from the Titan II engines as the spin up for the Gemini fliights. Again, great video.
Fascinating, I was glued . Great work really well explained. Thank you.
A fantastic and well-researched video. One of the best I've seen on TH-cam. Congratulations.
That's incredible. I never considered the gyroscopic effect turbo pumps and fuel pumps would have on a rocket. It's extremely obvious now that you've said something. Can't wait to watch the rest of the video to hear you explain it.
Just fascinating!! Can’t wait for next part!!!
Should be out 4 years from now 😂😂😂
Absolutely worth waiting
Incredible amount of detail and knowledge! Thank you so much 🙂
Fantastic work!
1:30:00 Verstemmen is an old phrase for a press-fit.
Amazing analysis, thanks so much for putting in the time!
Hi there and thanks for watching and commenting. As I'm sure you know, languages are living things; they drift with time. These days I always consult with more sources than Google and Deepl for translations, including native-speaker colleagues and of-the-era dictionaries. My oldest Cassel's German English dictionary was published in 1888 (old for us, not so much for them) and translates 'Verstemmt' as calking or caulked. And in this case, I think that's what the drawing/production office meant. The linguistic point could be debated at length, I'm sure. But the engineering point is that there is nothing to the part that needs pressing in place, whereas they did use a locking compound and screws to fasten it (the cement compound or glue was to eliminate the possibility of movement that might precipitate loosening). Thanks for posting. This is probably the only one of this type of linguistic/translation corrections I'm going to reply to for the time being - there are others and many more will follow, but I feel the above points adequately state my position. Again thanks for posting. KR RJD A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet As a german engineer, the method of securing the part interests me greatly. The idea of using a cement or glue in a high vibration/high temperature environment sounded risky.
But translating "verstemmen" as a press fit or securing the screw by denting the rim with a punch, would make more sense to me and be approriate for the era (as far as my limited knowledge goes).
Nevertheless, I didn't mean to phrase it as a "Well actually ...". I genuinely thank you for putting the video together.
I wanted to point that out too. As an enginner, I never heard the term, I had to look it up. The German wiki says it involves plastic deformation. And the root of the word "stemmen" also evokes applying a force, rather than applying a cement, at least to a current speaker. I never would have thought to consult historical sources for that, but this seems to be the right way.
German native speaker, mechanically inclined: verstemmen is exactly what pugnate 666 says: securing the position for example of a threaded junction by mechanically denting one part with a punch or a chisel, so that the parts cannot come apart. Correct for the period, where things like loctite were not yet invented ( or wouldn’t work anyway because of heat)
Robert, super results. I know how much work one of your productions requires and I must say that you outdid yourself. Your humor spots were not lost on me either! -Tracy
Thanks Tracy, I cut out the piece with 'Artful Dodger' as a short as you suggested. You can see it here: th-cam.com/users/shortsnInEYVR5U4Q KR Rob
Superb content my good sir :) when are you going to build a 1:1 replika ? start NET ?
A gripping video. I really can’t say enough about it. I’ve watched all the “V”ideos and they’re fantastic
Thank you so much for this! Mind blown multiple times! Seriously considering becoming a patron!
This kind of material would've been wonders to watch when I was a child. When I was a child in the 2000's, it seemed most technical stuff directed towards children was unsophisticated. Don't get me started on the NASA channel.
Your work in regards to the V2's details and the science behind it is a breath of fresh air!
P.S. Can you make a short of the turbopump sound? That alone gave me chills and a nervous laugh/cry.
Congratulations for this great instructional job you did!
A massive thank You for making those videos!!
Very catchy explanation how this machine of "Hein" has worked. Best wishes from Frankfurt, 60km distance to Frankenthal.
I really like your videos, I think unique in it's kind. Like all the modeling. A rocket always rotates around it's Center of gravity. Sometimes model rocketeers also do a swing test to see if a rocket is stable. They put a string in the center of gravity and swing it around and see if it flies forward.
a 2 hour video essay on turbo pumps? yes, please
Very nice demo with the balloons. Effective presentation.
I don't even know what to say... Here in Africa 🌍 getting ro see a rocket is like a journey to Jupiter.. let alone understanding the physics and operation of one 😢. But i love it and the only one who is helping me is you. God bless you in abundance and please if i can chat you personally it will be a dream come true. Thank you and more blessings
Wow, fantastic documentary video again. Thank you Robert!
Awesome, excellent presentation! Thank you!
These are great videos and an important aid to teaching.
Another great video on the V2! I would love to see you do a video on the A4B version!
Another great expose of the V-2's turbopump.Superb!
I'm a diesel mechanic and I really enjoyed this although I keep getting disturbed by the family and have to go back time and again and I guess it's helped me a great deal because playing around with engines basically involves improving combustion and increasing efficiency and getting better stoichiometric efficiency.
The scale of the processes are quite staggering though. The quantity of fuel and oxygen going through the system is staggering to me.
Thanks for your excellent explanation and I'm subscribing to this channel and will check out your previous posts because this subject is very interesting.
Awesome video…..thank you so much
Thank you again for great information presented in a way a layman can understand!
fabulous video
Excellent!!
Very fun very cool.
I think there should probably be a banner running along the bottom reminding everybody who it was who built this, why and their horror. Also the temporal fitment of this video is interesting on a couple orthogonal levels.
Excellent. Been waiting for this . Thanks. Would be nice if the LOX main fuel valve gets some treatment.
Very nice, thanks!
thank you god only knows how I waited and hoped for pt2!
First of all , a very detailed video - thank you
39:02 Schlagring - the word "schlagen" in technical view also means something that rotates out of center or out of balnace. "Schlagring" means a ring that rotates out of center.
Schlagring in this content translates to oscillating ring. No humor involved, sorry😂
At a few mins in I wondered about two pumps running in opposite directions one for oxidiser and one for fuel. Would that work?
OUTSTANDING als always !!!! LOVE it :)
I have waited for this for so long! Thank you!!!
This is absolutely wonderful, thanks so much for doing these.
Excellent. Been waiting for this. Would be nice if the LOX main valve is given some treatment. Thanks
Such a great video. I'm pretty sure that they used the turbine overspeed shutdown on every flight as the rocket ran out of fuel so it was not destroyed by turbine overspeed before it hit its target.
Hi James. They had radio controlled shutdown, and later the more commonly used onboard Muller integrating gyroscopic accelerometer (MIGA) which shut the pump down when the range velocity had been achieved. But the timer (which could also shut the turbopump down independently) and the turbine overspeed switch was responsible for shutting the engine down on many occasions I think during the V2's combat period. I think the fall of shot data can be interpreted as lending some weight to this view. However, there are competing explainations of equal merit. Thanks for posting. KR RJD A&NTV
Wow, that exhaust spectrum at 1:02:53 is incredible! The heavy sodium and manganese lines from the Sodium Permanganate outshine everything, but it’s so cool to see the light potassium line at the top (probably from minor potassium contamination in the permanganate) and probably the most interesting of all is the bright calcium oxide line - where did it come from? The fuel was 75% alcohol, not anhydrous so they didn’t need to dry it using CaO, did they dilute anhydrous alcohol for control or purity? So interesting
A good analogy for how external combustion is contributing power is to imagine an explosive on a sandy beach. The explosive is largely going to expend its energy as a pressure wave through the air as its one of the paths but newtons laws of motion also state the equal and opposite reaction. The chemical energy is going to radiate in all directions (in 3 dimensions) so some of the energy MUST be directed into the ground/sand below the explosive charge, thus some sand is going to be displaced from the energy expenditure even though displacing the sand is more work than displacing the air. You can also consider military aircraft where the afterburner dumps fuel into a nearly fully oxidizer depleted jet column so most of that fuel is going to burn externally as the fuel encounters additional atmospheric oxygen to burn. If such external combustion did not work, you would not see it used in high performance aircraft.
Simply AMAZING!!!
The turbopomp screams: POWER! In a rather screechy voice..., kind of eerie too....
Greetings bibia.
Ps thanks for the uploads, I liked.
this video should be in the V2 playlist
I did wonder about when part 2 was going to come out. I’m not a rocket scientist - but this was a entertaining & informative video.
oh yes- the gyroscopic effect of the rotating mass of the turbo pump