Apr 172011
This one should be tricky for most. But it may well be easy for certain people with somewhat particular interests.
Bonus glory to whoever can not only identify *what* but *where.*
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The what is easy: an F1 injector plate. The where: idunno.
Interior of an F-1 rocket engine?
That looks like the collander end of a wind tunnel, Langley?
Ceiling of the Houston Astrodome?
As Ed said, an easy F-1 injector.
As far as where, my first guess would be Stennis — their F-1’s been sitting outside for quite a while and has some gunk clogging up the holes.
Failing that, you’ve been close to the F-1 at the Cosmosphere and Udvar-Hazy. The Air Zoo isn’t that far from Dayton, but they’ve cleaned theirs up nicely, and have it lit up for the world to see.
The “what” got nailed pretty quick, as was not unexpected. The “where” is in fact Udvar-Hazy.
At Birmingham’s facility
http://southernmuseumofflight.org/
I saw nice turbocompound engines on display inside, and an old liquid fueled rocket engine with a square sawn out of the nozzle.
It of course, was outside covered by weeds. Last time I visited, it was gone. Sent to Huntsville I hope.