Originally Posted by
Winemaker
7 Megatons? Perhaps you mean 7 million pounds..... I was a kid in Huntsville, Alabama back in the moon days; they static tested Saturn F1 engines all the time and they were pretty loud.
If memory serves, they had to carefully watch the weather conditions before they ran the F1 engine tests - if the conditions were correct, the sound would break windows in Huntsville.
Do you know if they are using the same test stand that was used for the F1 engines (upgraded to modern standards)? Or did destroy the old stand and have to start over?