F-1 Engine Cut-Aways

I've collected a number of F-1 rocket engine cut-away diagrams for this page. I was originally going to use these diagrams as a take-off point to discuss various features of the engine, but the resulting page wound up being huge. I will, therefore, refer to you to my F-1 thrust chamber, F-1 injector, and F-1 injector baffles pages. All that remains on this page are several gratuitous F-1 rocket engine cut-away diagrams.

Thrust Chamber and Nozzle Extension

This diagram shows a cut-away of the overall thrust chamber and its interface with the nozzle extension:

F-1 rocket engine cut-away combustion thrust chamber nozzle extension bifurcation joint turbine exhaust fuel return manifold

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Photo courtesy Vince Wheelock.

For a detailed description of the combustion chamber, as well as many fabrication/assembly photos, see my F-1 engine thrust chamber page.


Injector End

This cut-away diagram depicting the F-1 injector end, as is typical of color diagrams of rocket engine internals, represents LOX flow as green and fuel flow as red:

F-1 rocket engine cut-away lox dome injector plate fuel manifold hypergol feed line

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Photo courtesy Vince Wheelock.
Cleanup by heroicrelics.

This diagram, from a paper which seems to date from sometime before July 1967, shows another view of the injector. I'm not certain why this diagram lacks a number of features of the other injector cut-aways; my best guess is that this particular diagram was unclassified back in the day, while the other diagrams were still classified at the time. This diagram does give a better feel for the LOX flow.

F-1 rocket engine injector cut-away fuel feed passages oxidizer lox dome

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From Saturn V Booster - The F-1 Engine by D.E. Aldrich. Located in the Saturn V Collection, Dept. of Archives/Special Collections, M. Louis Salmon Library, University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Scan and cleanup by heroicrelics.

This final injector cut-away diagram clearly shows how the radial injector baffles are regeneratively cooled, with the feed line leading from the fuel feed passage, through the radial baffles, and finally to the radial baffles themselves:

F-1 rocket engine injector cut-away fuel feed passages oxidizer lox dome

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Adapted from p. 1-2 of the F-1 Rocket Engine Technical Manual Supplement (R-3896-1A)
Adaptation by heroicrelics.


See my F-1 engine injector and F-1 engine injector baffle pages for additional information about the injector, the hypergol feed line, and the injector baffles.