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An early model of the Block I Saturn I (or maybe Super Jupiter this point) in what was then the 16-ft transonic wind tunnel at the the PWT (Propulsion Wind Tunnel) facility at AEDC, Tullahoma, Tennessee.
The model appears to be able to pivot the outer gimballed H-1 engines. Note that the tank is still the solid design used early on, before the change to use a cluster of Redstone tanks around a Jupiter tank. That change was a money saving move for the static test article but persisted to the final flight.
I climbed around the PWT a lot as a kid (consequence of being a wind tunnel engineer's kid, lol), and it's impressive. It's the only wind tunnel I've been in that smelled like a battleship when you go in the test chamber. Also, it was only in the early 2000s that they replaced the original compressors, which were literally war spoils "removed" from the BMW factory in 1945.
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