With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

Baffling

2013 March 17 21:39

This post is just to show the baffling seals in my airplane's engine. These were taken at the beginning of November when I was looking at the airplane for the first time.




Seeing the Redstone

2013 March 02 21:34

A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I took a first trip on the Mooney to visit the rocket museum at Huntsville, Alabama. I'm happy to say she thought the trip was reasonabe; she didn't hate flying in the Mooney. Yay!

It was both of our first time there; we were only there a couple of hours, but it was neat trip. We saw some pretty cool artifacts. Here's me beneath the business-end of a Saturn-5 rocket that's stacked outside the museum.

It's immense. For some reasons the Saturn 5s I've seen inside on their side (at Huntsville and at Cape Canaveral in Florida) dont' seem as big as the one outside that's upright.

That's a massive showerhead!

Not really--it's an early fuel/oxidiser injector for an F-1 rocket engine; 5 of those engines powered the Saturn-5 first stage.

We rented a car to drive from the local municipal airport to the museum. It was a Lincoln SUV. Very nice, the panel was really slick and had a nice digital turn-on sequence.



It drove nicely, and was very comfortable. However, I found the environmental controls difficult to use. It took us 10 minutes to figure out how to turn on the air conditioning.

Oh, and I never really thought of why it was called the Redstone missle or the Redstone arsenal. Becky pointed out the dirt--and that's probably why.