"no_one" wrote in message
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I understand that the N-1 was a very good engine. I believe that Kistler
was going to use some for his vehicle by buying unused engines from
Russia.
Kistler needed to gimbal them for thrust vector control since the Russians
tried to used throttle control on their application.

The N-1 isn't an engine but a rocket. It used RD-33 engines if I remember
correctly. But the N-1 had 30 of them all firing at once creating enormous
stresses on the airframe if one of the engines' thrust varied.



"Uddo Graaf" wrote in message
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I read that the Russian N-1 moon rocket kept blowing up because the
Russians
couldn't control the thrust of 30 rocket engines firing in tandem. I was
wondering: could this problem have been solved by computer controlled
engines? Or is there another structural reason for the failure of the
N-1?