Topic: Apollo Saturn V F-1 engines in Copley, Ohio
PeterO Member
Posts: 399 From: North Carolina Registered: Mar 2002
posted 06-16-2017 09:01 AM
This Facebook posting has the below photo of three F-1 engines in a field in Copley, Ohio. They appear to be some level of boilerplate or mockup engines.
I found photos and references to mockups, but they are much higher fidelity. Does anyone have any information about these?
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-16-2017 11:30 AM
Copley is where Thomarios' plant and operational facility is located. Thomarios conducted the restoration of the Saturn V at Kennedy Space Center.
Thomarios also restored the World's Fair space exhibits displayed today at the New York Hall of Science. Among those is an F-1 engine, but the original exhibits included a mockup of an S-IC. These are the remnants from that 1964 display.
PeterO Member
Posts: 399 From: North Carolina Registered: Mar 2002
posted 06-16-2017 12:39 PM
Thanks, Robert! I never would have guessed that origin.
The 1962 Seattle World's Fair also had a Saturn first stage thrust structure representation, an early design of the Saturn I.