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Saturn V, including the Apollo spacecraft. is 364 feet tall. Fully loaded, the vehicle will weight over six million pounds. The 300,000 pound first stage is 33 feet in diameter and 138 feet long. It is powered by five F-1 engines generating 7.5 million pounds thrust. The booster will burn 203,000 gallons of RP-1 (refined kerosene) and 331,000 gallons of liquid oxygen (LOX) in 2.5 minutes. Saturn V's second stage is powered by five J-2 engines that generate a total thrust of a million pounds. The 33 foot diameter stage weights 95,000 pounds empty and more than a million pounds loaded. It burns some 260,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and 83,000 gallons of liquid oxygen during a typical 6 minute flight. Third
stage is powered by a single J-2 engine developing up to 225,000
pounds of thrust powers the stage. Typical burn time is 2.75 minutes
for the first burn and 5.2 minutes to a translunar injection. |
Specifications: 1st
Stage : 5 Rocketdyne F-1 engines (7,600,000 lb total) 
Full functional custom panel. |
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When
I decided to assembly this model the intention was just to demonstrate
that it could be made a multistage rocket with separated working
stages (thus engines) and all the physics that it would implies,
like the shifts in CG and weight at each stage burns and be ejectable,
all this using the current version of X-Plane. |
The project started and was fully operational in X-Plane version 6.70 but as the version 7 brought a few improvements I finished the model in this one. Maybe it can still be flew in the former version, I am not sure. All the parts making the model's body were modeled outside X-Plane. | |||||
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in mind that the real ship after what this model was based never ever
was intended to be flew "by hands". The real Saturn V is
all automated. To get all the flight parameters correct, to fly the
best profile in order to get in orbit altitude at the correct path
and velocity is no task for a human. It was always left to computers
care, even in '69. It is possible to take this huge apparatus in orbit using X-Plane but it is not a casual task. |
In all the so many test flights I did during its development phase,
at just one time I managed to get all right and establish an orbit
that would not decay. There is an html file inside the downloadable package where I put all the tricks (tips and hints) that I collected and that can help you get success. But be advised that flying this model can give you a lot of frustration, but also a remarkable eXperience. |
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Almost
everything here done by me: Marcelo M. Marques - codename 31 M.M.M
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