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Re: Turbine HP

To: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@lubricationdynamics.com>
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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