From: g_d_pusch_remove_underscores@xnet.com   
      
   edkyle99@hotmail.com (ed kyle) writes:   
      
   > g_d_pusch_remove_underscores@xnet.com (Gordon D. Pusch) wrote in message   
   news:...   
   >> Joann Evans  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> Rajesh Khanna wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Who has the most powerfull rocket engine?  In terms of  Lifting   
   capability?   
   >>>   
   >>>    If I'm understanding you correctly, I think that would still be the   
   >>> Saturn-5 first stage F-1 engines:   
   >>   
   >> Uh, that would be the answer to: "Who _HAD_ the most powerful rocket?"   
   >> The Saturn V is now a lawn ornament --- not a rocket.   
   >   
   > The Glushko/Energomash RD-171 is more powerful than F-1   
   > was.  RD-171 produces 740 metric tons of sea-level, and   
   > 806 tons of vacuum, thrust.  F-1 produced 789 tons of   
   > vacuum thrust.   
      
   That does not change my correction to past tense of the poster's observation...   
      
      
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