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July 18th 19, 05:18 PM
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Apollo and our own.
There must be a good number of our crowd out there that contributed their talents to getting us to the moon via the Apollo program. One is Roy Cundiff (formerly “R1” Ventus) who was an engineer on those mighty first stage F1 engines that put out 7.5 million pounds of thrust, consuming 318,000 gallons of LOX and 203,400 gallons of kerosene in less than three minutes. To build a device that can convert that much fuel to energy in a controlled manner in that short time is an astonishing feat. Thanks Roy !!! (Incidentally, the “mileage” figure for the first stage was roughly 10 inches/gallon.) 
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