N-1 "Stabilization Screens" (Wuz: Re: shuttle LOX line vs Saturn V LOX lines)

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:27:53 -0600, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Mr Jim wrote:

I'd rather not look at the N-1 - too much of mess :-)

Makes a fascinating model though, all girders and bumps; looks like some
sort of Marxist lighthouse more than a rocket:
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/realspace/n1.html

....Otay, this page brings up a question that somehow hasn't been
answered here before:

http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/realspace/rsm088.html

....Just exactly *how* did those "stabilization screens" work,
aerodynamically speaking? They sort of go against what we'd expect to
find on a rocket - read: fins - and I've always wondered how these
came about on the N-1 design, and whether any other booster had
anything similar.

(Cue Henry)

OM
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