How big are your engines?

[Erlanger]

When the Space Shuttle takes off, it generates 6,425,000 lbs of thrust.

Who's got the second biggest?

 

[Whataburger]

Boeing 737

 

[Minimaniac]

When the Space Shuttle takes off, it generates 6,425,000 lbs of thrust.

Who's got the second biggest?

Aw, that's not much. That's what, ONLY 70 GE-90's?

 

[BDD]

GE 90's 115,000 lbs a side on the 777.

 

[crj567]

I think the Atlas and Titan rockets are ahead of a 777 engine. Probably a few ICBMs in there as well.

 

[Minimaniac]

GE 90's 115,000 lbs a side on the 777.

Ah, I thought they were 90,000 lbs. Oh well, I guess I'm no rocket scientist.

 

[jonjuan]

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Space-Shuttle-main-engine

Each of the 3 engines on the orbiter generates 400,000 lbs of thrust.

The Space Shuttle main engines are very sophisticated power plants that burn liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen from the Space Shuttle external tank. They are used for propulsion during its ascent, in addition to the two more powerful Solid Rocket Boosters and sometimes the Orbital Maneuvering System. Each engine can generate almost 1.8 MN (400,000 pounds) of thrust at liftoff.

 

[Colonel Savage]

What did the Apollo Moon Rocket generate?

 

[Erlanger]

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Space-Shuttle-main-engine

Each of the 3 engines on the orbiter generates 400,000 lbs of thrust.

The Space Shuttle main engines are very sophisticated power plants that burn liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen from the Space Shuttle external tank. They are used for propulsion during its ascent, in addition to the two more powerful Solid Rocket Boosters and sometimes the Orbital Maneuvering System. Each engine can generate almost 1.8 MN (400,000 pounds) of thrust at liftoff.

The two solid rocket boosters generate a thrust of approximately 2,800,000 lbs at sea level, increasing shortly after liftoff to about 3,100,000 lbs. So that would make it a max of 7,400,000 lbs of thrust.

 

[Erlanger]

What did the Apollo Moon Rocket generate?

The Saturn 5 had 5 engines in the 1st stage. The total combined thrust to launch that rocket was 7,500,000 lbs.