Rocket Collection (page 2)

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

Reims-Cessna FR172H Reims Rocket 205
Irish Air Corps - Reims-Cessna FR172H Reims Rocket 205 (msn 0305 Date: circa 2000

Vickers Valiant WB215
Vickers 671 Valiant WB215, the second prototype, seen at the SBAC Farnborough International Air Show from 3-9 September 1956

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Tradition is Glory'. Date: circa mid-1970s

The Rocket Brigade
An unknown Royal Navy rocket brigade asks did that reach her?, enquiring whether their fired rocket reached its intended target, another ship. Date: 1885

Maule M. 4 Rocket ZK-DON
Maule M.4-210C Rocket ZK-DON (msn 1100C), at Blackpool-Squire's Gate Airport, in May 1974. Date: 1974

Aggregat 4 rocket (A4), moments before launch at Peenemunde. The popularised designation of the A4 was V-2 - Vergeltungswaffe 2 - (Retribution Weapon 2) Date: 1943

Armstrong Whitworth AW. 650 Argosy T. 2 9Q-COA
(ex Royal Air Force) Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy T.2 9Q-COA Jason (msn 6791, ex XR136), of O.R.A.S. (Otrag Range Air Services) at East Midlands Airport, in November 1977

Portrait of Edward Entwistle, apprentice to George Stephenson on the construction of the Rocket locomotive engine and extension of the railroad from Manchester to Liverpool

Edinburgh Castle floodlit during the Tattoo, when signalling maroons and rocket were fired. The twin towers of Stewart's College and dome of the Bank of Scotland on left. Date: 1960s

Troops lie in wait for the purpose of a rocket ambush; and Congreve rockets used for defence of an army post Date: 1827

Two mounted troops from the British Army Rocket Brigade created in 1818 after the success of Congreve's rocket introduced in 1804 Date: 1827

Congreve rocket carriages in transit and in action Date: 1827

Comic postcard, Woman on beach riding stick of rock Date: 20th century

World War II remains of a V2 German rocket site
Vintage World War II photograph - remains of a V2 German rocket launching site - rocket launcher mounted on a train. Hahnenberg Forest, Germany

Honesty, Lunaria annua (Lunaria biennis). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Rocket, Hesperis matronalis. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Rocket locomotive model - owned by George Robert Stephenson
Rocket locomotive model. Owned by George Robert Stephenson, made 1829. Listed in RE Bleasdales Locomotive Engines catalogue, entry 1268. Taken for Stephenson Centenary. Date: 1881

George Stephensons Centenary napkin. Presented to IMechE members by Andrew Reid to commerorate George Stephensons Centenary on 9 Jun 1881

Perennial wall-rocket, Diplotaxis tenuifolia (Ruchetta salvatica). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi

Rocket and candy tuft species
Large-flowered garden rocket, Hesperis grandiflora, showy rocket, Hesperis speciosa, fragrant rocket, Hesperis fragrans, seaside malcomia, Malcomia littorea, field moricandia, Moricandia arvensis

Vesircaria, rocket, toothwort and wallcress species
Globe-podded vesicaria, Vesicaria utriculata, yellow rocket, Barbaria vulgaris, rock alyssum, Aurinia saxatilis, mountain alyssum, Alyssum montanum, five-leaved toothwort, Dentaria pentaphylla

Water rocket, Eruca aquatica, and London rocket, Sisymbrium irio. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Rocket or arugula, Eruca sativa, and dogmustard, Erucastrum nasturtiifolium. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Rocket or arugula, Eruca vesicaria, Eruca sativa, Roquette cultivee. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Turkish wartycabbage or Turkish rocket, Bunias orientalis, Bunias de Levant. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar

Dyers rocket or dyers weed, Reseda luteola, Gaude. Handcoloured steel engraving by L. Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Chatham naval barracks and William Congreves rockets for the British military used in the Napoleonic Wars from 1804. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes

Bitter or rocket candytuft, Iberis amara. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Wild mignonette or base rocket, Reseda lutea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman

Woad and dyers rocket
Woad or glastum, Isatis tinctoria 1, and dyers rocket, Reseda luteola 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar

Advert, Pains Fireworks. 1927

Opel rocket car in action
The Opel rocket car in action. After achieving high speeds, an accident resulted in the complete destruction of the machine. 20th century

Anti-nuclear demonstrators at North Pickenham
Members and supporters of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War crouching in front of a lorry leaving a rocket base at North Pickenham, near Swaffham

Curtis British Entomology Plate 292
Coleoptera: Mononychus pseudacori = Mononychus punctumalbum (Single-clawed Weevil) [Plant: Diplotaxis tenuifolia (Sisymbrium tenuifolium, Wall Rocket)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 83
Coleoptera: Chlaenius sulcicollis Payk. (Channel-necked Chlaenius), = Agostenus sulcicollis (a mainland-European species) [Plant: Cakile maritima (Bunias cakile, Sea Rocket)] Date: 1824-39

USAF - Northrop F-89D-5-NO Scorpion 51-0415
United States Air Force - Northrop F-89D-5-NO Scorpion 51-0415, an early production F-89D (number 16), with rocket only armament

Armstrong Whitworth AW. 650 Argosy C. 1 9Q-COE
(ex Royal Air Force) Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy C.1 9Q-COE (msn 6778, ex XP446), of O.R.A.S. (Otrag Range Air Services) at East Midlands Airport

Armstrong Whitworth AW. 650 Argosy T. 2 9Q-COA
(ex Royal Air Force) Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy T.2 9Q-COA Jason (msn 6791, ex XR136), of O.R.A.S. (Otrag Range Air Services) at East Midlands Airport

United States Air Force - Northrop F-89H Scorpion 54-0298
United States Air Force - Northrop F-89H-1-NO Scorpion 54-0298. Visible are the retractable launchers for the AIM-4 Falcon Air to Air Missiles and the covered un-guided rocket launcher tubes

George Stephensons Rocket 1815
George Stephensons Rocket, coming first in Rainhill Trials, 1829. Date: 1815

FALL / WHIPPET / 1931
CHAMPION RUSTIC ROCKET Owned by Moorby. Date: 1931

GODDARDS MOON PROJECT
Dr Goddards MOON ROCKET project Date: 1922

Royal Air Force Consolidated Liberator GR Mk. III (Special R
Royal Air Force Consolidated Liberator GR Mk.III (Special R.P.). The use of rockets against submarines got mixed reactions from the aircrew

Johnson Rocket 185 N90212 (msn 19). Registration cancelled on 2 September 1955. Date: 1960s

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