Three engines three thousand pounds 6 pounds per gallon 500 gallons
116,000 cubic inches 67 cubic feet. Not quite a swimming pool per second.
Check my arithmetic.

Paul Lamar

Well, you Know how tour guides like to stretch things a bit. This was

probably a

warped misquote based on a true  PR comparison that the turbo pumps on

the F-1 moon

shot engines coulld fill an olympic size pool on top the Empire State

building in X

(I do not remember the number and I do not know the "Olympic" size)

seconds.

The combined flow of liquid oxygen and kerosine was  over 20,000 lbs per

second. Vance

I'm impressed!

Paul Lamar

The number that grabbed me on a visit to the Air & Space museum was on a
display showing one of the five turbo pumps (fuel) for a Saturn V rocket.
Each one generated 60,000 HP!

Tracy

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