
I don’t know if you recall a post from my blog, “HALT Testing is Not Always In a Chamber”, that discussed what I consider to be the first documented HALT test. Well I just found a video of the design solution in action and it is super cool. I discussed how during 
The team was unable to solve this issue due to the difficulty of observing or recreating this failure mode and it’s derivatives. Unable to easily observe or recreate it on command reduced opportunity for design iteration testing and advancement of the F1 program. The solution to this challenge was to set off dynamite (black powder) charges in the nozzle when it was firing to create shock waves that would surely fracture it. By 
This is a video I recently came across of the space shuttle nozzles ramping up before launch. The technology used here is a direct derivative of the F1 Apollo nozzles. You can see the nozzles self-stabilize as the motors throttle up.
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This is a good example of the testing method named “process change”. The flow load was replaced by the burst shock load.