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Anthony Frost wrote:
There's also a considerable difference between feeding 30 engines from a single set of tanks and feeding each group of nine engines from its own set of tanks. The more complex the plumbing, the more potential problems there are. N-1 plumbing was a complex and heavy mess with so many long pipes being involved that it was almost begging for some pipe or weld seam to fail under launch vibration. Pat |
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