Ballistic Collection

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missiles

The Arrival of the First Thor Ballistic Missile to RAF Bom
Photograph of the delivery of first Thor Ballistic Missile to an RAF Base in Norfolk, 19th September 1958. Sixty-five feet long

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missiles at RAF Station, Woolfox Lodge

Chrysler Jupiter-C sounding rocket at Cape Canaveral on 8 August 1957 prior to the third and final sub-orbital test of a re-entry nose cone

Blue Streak at Woomera

de Havilland Blue Streak
De Havilland Blue Streak Medium-Range Ballistic Missile Being Lowered, in Its Launcher-Frame, Onto a Low-Loader Truck Date: 1950s

An English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile being transferred from the launcher-loading trolley to the launcher, September 1958. Date: 1958

English Electric Thunderbird guided missile system
English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile system, March 1958. Date: 1958

Blue Streak in LT Tower - Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory
Blue Streak in the LT Tower at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory at Hatfield

Blue Streak test rig installation at Hatfield, c1958
Blue Streak test rig installation at Hatfield, circa 1958. Date: circa 1958

An almost complete Blue Streak at Stevenage, c1964
An almost complete Blue Streak at Stevenage, circa 1964. Date: circa 1964

Complete Blue Streak electrical mock-up for circuit testing at Stevenage, circa 1964. Date: circa 1964

Bristol Bloodhound guided missile unveiled at Filton
Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile was unveiled at Filton on 20 August 1957. Date: 1957

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Farnborough in 1957. Date: 1957

WW2 - German V2 Rocket captured - October 1945. Date: 1945

A test rocket used to demonstrate the parachute recover?
A test rocket used to demonstrate the parachute recovery system of the English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile. 1957 Farnborough air show. Date: 1957

An unarmed English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air ?
An unarmed English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile collides amidship with the target, a Jindivik, following its launch from Woomera, Australia, 5 December 1957. Date: 1957

Sgt Leslie Williams of the 32nd Guided Weapons Regiment?
Sgt Leslie Williams of the 32nd Guided Weapons Regiment of the Royal Artillery at Ty Croes, North Wales, during training with the English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile

Bristol Bloodhound II surface-to-air guided missiles at the Royal Swedish Air Force base at Barkaby, near Stockholm

Mechanics at the Canoga Park, California, plant of Rock?
Mechanics at the Canoga Park, California, plant of Rocketdyne make final adjustments to an engine for the first stage of a Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM)

Chrysler Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) launched on a test flight from Cape Canaveral on 27 February 1959. Date: 1959

Blue Streak test at Spadeadam

Blue Streak static firing of vehicle 4D4 on the C3 stand at Spadeadam

Blue Streak flight vehicle F1 lifting off from Woomera
Blue Streak flight vehicle F1 lifting off from the pad at Woomera

Blue Streak test rig at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory at Hatfield

Blue Streak Coralie stage being lifted into the LT Tower at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory at Hatfield, circa 1964. Date: circa 1964

Blue Streak satellite adaptor section lifted before assembly
Blue Streak satellite adaptor section being lifted before assembly, alongside the nose fairing, circa 1964. Date: circa 1964

Blue Streak nose fairing being lifted at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory at Hatfield, circa 1964. Date: circa 1964

Blue Streak German third stage being lifted into the LT Tower at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory at Hatfield, circa 1964. Date: circa 1964

Blue Streak, cAugust 1959
Blue Streak, circa August 1959. Date: 1959

Blue Streak first stage in test tower at de Havilland?s fact
Blue Streak first stage in a test tower at de Havilland?s factory at Hatfield

Static test rig installation at Hatfield for Blue Streak, c1
Static test rig installation at Hatfield for development of Blue Streak, circa 1958. Date: circa 1958

Blue Streak assembly line at de Havilland?s factory at Stevenage, 16 August 1961. Date: 1961

Part of the Blue Streak electrical mock-up showing the French and German stages at Stevenage, circa 1964

The flight structure of the Prospero X3 technology sate?
The flight structure of the Prospero X3 technology satellite, prior to electronic installation, during vibration testing at the BAC Space Systems Group, Bristol

Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile, North Coates
Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Britain?s first guided weapons air defence station at North Coates, Lincolnshire. November 1958. Date: 1958

Bristol Bobbin recoverable ramjet test vehicle

Black Arrow three-stage satellite launcher lifts off from Woomera on 4 March 1970. Date: 1970

Black Arrow three-stage satellite launcher at Woomera

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