I found this Rocketdyne F1 engine, the motor five of which powered the first stage of NASA’s Saturn V moon rocket, at the New Mexico Space History Museum in Alamogordo. The F1 is the most powerful, single nozzle, liquid fueled rocket ever flown and its statistics are quite breathtaking. Each engine burned 670 gallons of fuel (kerosene) and liquid oxygen every second and generated 1,500,000 lbf of thrust. The turbine used to power the fuel pumps alone generated 55,000 horsepower.
For the technically inclined...
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