I Spy A Horse Wife In The Stadium!

I think a lot of us know this beautiful video from Apollo 4 unmanned launch.

A lot of nerding, rocket stuff, trivia and technical info below:

Some of you may wonder: “Why am i not seeing the rocket exhaust?” or “When the second stage will fire?”. The answer is: They already are firing, since just after separation. S-II (the second stage), unlike first one is fueled by the liquid oxygen-liquid hydrogen mixture, which is invisible when burning. This is also (in)visible on Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs). What you can see, is the high temperature heating up and burning the the S-Ic and the interstage.

The S-Ic (first stage) and S-II (second stage) separated in a somewhat unusual fashion. Usually an interstage (the part holding stages together) is separated with a lower stage. In Saturn V however the second stage engines occupy so much space, that a “direct” separation could have destroyed S-II engines, so the interstage was separated a few seconds after the first stage to avoid that scenario.

The first, bright fire was a shaped charge (an explsive) used to break split the rocket in two. How else do you think you could separate a thing THAT big, THAT quickly?

The cameras were then dropped from the rocket (as seen at the end of the video) and picked up from the ocean.

Animation: Diaries

It really rocked the best-seller char– alright I’m sorry.

Trying a new thing with doing the crediting (of the users whose lines I snatched) in the animation itself. You can see the comment chain here!

(Mirrors: Imgur, GfyCat)

It’s sleeping in the oven! :D

You know where the source is by now.

This is beautiful

S4E10, Rainbow Falls - EXCLUSIVE DELETED SCENES

(Twice as big and four times as many colors in the mirrors! Imgur, Gfycat)

Maybe I was the only one but this totally bugged me

It seems like a interesting design interesting but I’m not sure if it’ll ever take off. I’m far from being an expert but the tri-engine design INCLUDING a liquid-fueled rocket engine sounds like a nightmare to maintain, especially since rockets engines aren’t usually considered to be safe enough for commercial transport.

Since turbojets are meant to be extendable (yeah, I’ve looked at the article), I’d like to remind anyone that complexity is usually prone to failures. Same goes for the rear fins (also change position in-fight). In my amateur opinion using turboramjets or internal turbojets would make more sense. Aaand... it wouldn’t probably look as depicted on the second picture.

And that is not including costs. No manned air-breathing airplane has ever reached speeds faster than mach 3.5, and the one that came close (Blackbird) was specially designed to handle these speeds. We have no experience at building near-hypersonic manned aircraft, especially meant for commercial human transport. Then, after each light rocket engines would have to be test-fired (just for safety) and probably replaced with a new one after every... lets be optimistic and say 30 flights.

Okay enough rambling... for now

Patent Details for a Supersonic Airplane That Could Potentially Travel From New York to London in One Hour

XB-70

S4E25, Twilight’s Kingdom, Part 1 - Deleted Scene 

The best part of this one is it’s totally canon unless proven otherwise

This is all text and no breaks. Use the Gfycat mirror to slow it down if you want! (Imgur, Gfycat)