F1 Rocket
If you are in the market for unbelievable performance in an affordable homebuilt airplane the f1 rocket is exactly the plane youve been looking for.
F1 rocket. The f 1 qb is an all metal airframe crafted and designed for the discriminating pilot that seeks f 16 like performance at an affordable price. After reaching a certain altitude the engines would shut down and fall back into the ocean. The engines were designed to be disposable. This plane can outrun outclimb and outperform virtually all ga homebuilt aircraft.
The f4 raider is a virtually identical airframe but uses a 4 cylinder lycoming. Able to climb at 3500 fpm with a cruise speed over 230 kts the f1 rocket is a total performance machine. Designed to be built with a range of nose mounted engines between 235 and 350 hp 175 and 224 kw the prototype has a lycoming io 540 with a three bladed propeller. The f1 rocket is a tandem two seat low wing cantilever monoplane built mainly in aluminum.
The f 1 engine remains the highest thrust rocket engine that nasa has ever flown 15 million pounds of thrust. The f 1 is a gas generator cycle rocket engine developed in the united states by rocketdyne in the late 1950s and used in the saturn v rocket in the 1960s and early 1970s. The rocket has a titanium fixed conventional landing gear with a tailwheel. Five f 1 engines were used in the s ic first stage of each saturn v which served as the main launch vehicle of the apollo programthe f 1 remains the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid propellant rocket engine.