Rocket Collection (page 8)

Auxiliary London firemen at drill on a fireboat, WW2
Auxiliary London firemen (AFS) under instruction in the use of a rocket-line as part of their fireboat drills and training

American missiles
Missiles at US Army Missile Command, 1962 Date: 1962

Launch of Mercury Space Capsule carrying John Glenn
Launch of an Atlas Rocket bearing the Mercury Space Capsule carrying John Glenn, blasting off from Cape Kennedy. Glenn was the third American in space

Soldier in trench with signals rockets, WW1
A soldier in a trench with rockets used for signalling during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Schoolboy inspects the Rocket locomotive at the Science Museum, 1929 Date: 1929

Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket
NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Refueling B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK161
Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK160
Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Two technicians beside WK163 one looks inside the engine hatch Date: 1957

Control panel of WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Testbed B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Test peroxide kerosene Scorpion rocket tested in the bomb bay of a Canberra WK163 Date: 1957

Napier NSc 2 Double Scorpion rocket engine
Mounted in the bomb bay of EE Canberra WK163 the Napier NSc 2 Double Scorpion rocket engine Date: 1957

Boy in a toy car
A boy at the wheel of a rocket-shaped toy pedal car, posing outside his wooden boarded house

V-2 lands on London
An artists impression of a V-2 rocket landing in a London street. In reality the rocket would not have been seen, as its speed at arrival was up to four times the speed of sound

Duncan Sandys(1908-1987) in helicopter
Leaving Kuala Lumpar by helicopter to see operations in the Malayan Jungle: Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply. En route to his visit to Australia

German V-2 Base at Watten; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the huge concrete bunker of the German V-2 base at Watten, near St. Omer, France, 1944. This bunker was 300 ft. long, 200 ft. wide and 50 ft. tall

RAF fighter chasing a V-1 Flying Bomb; Second World War, 1
Photograph showing a Royal Air Force fighter airplane (right) chasing a German V-1 Flying Bomb rocket over Southern England, 1944

V-2 Rocket in Trafalgar Square, 1945
Photograph showing a German V-2 rocket exhibited in Trafalgar Square as a feature of Londons Thanksgiving Week celebrations at the end of the Second World War, September 1945

American Soldier with a V-2 Rocket, Nordhausen; Second World
Photograph showing an American soldier of the US First Army studying a partly-assembled German V-2 rocket in an underground assembly plant at Nordhausen, Germany, 1945

Royal Navy Seafire taking off; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a rocket-assisted take-off by a Royal Navy Seafire fighter during the Second World War. Rockets were used to help aircraft take off when they were either heavily laden or operating

German Radio-Controlled Rocket Bomb; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing a German radio-controlled, rocket propelled, flying bomb used in the Second World War. These bombs were typically carried underneath a bomber (shown bottom left)

Camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. The soldiers are pictured here ready to fire the rocket from its framework

War photography - two soldiers with camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. Two soldiers are pictured here about to load the rocket into its framework before it is positioned ready to fire

The Life Brigade firing a Rocket to a Ship on the Rocks
Engraving showing the firing of a rocket, by the volunteer life brigade, to a steam-ship being wrecked on rocks. If the rocket-line reached the ship

FIREWORKS 1747 - 6
Techniques of firework making in 18th century France : various types of rocket, including spiral, multiple and multi-stage rockets

Airship of Io
On Io, third of Jupiters moons, atomic power has been harnessed for the purposes of aviation : this airship is really a rocket ship with wings

Explosion at a rocket factory at Woolwich Arsenal. Rockets f
The explosion at a rocket factory at Woolwich Arsenal, as seen from Plumstead Marshes. The explosion occurred in the rocket storehouse, which was completely destroyed after the fire

Rocket Train Predicted
A rocket-powered train predicted

Killingworth Engine
George Stephensons locomotive designed to carry coal at Killingworth Colliery, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. It was the precursor of the Rocket and other engines

Soviet Rocket Launcher
Russian soldiers loading a Katyusha rocket launcher during the final advance into Berlin

Rockets against Berlin
Russian soldiers loading a Katyusha Rocket (inscribed To the Reichstag ) during their advance into Berlin

The Aerial Steam Horse
The Flight of Intellect: Mr Golightly experimenting on Mess. Quick & Speeds new patent, high pressure, steam riding rocket warranted not to burst!

Chinese Rocket Launcher
Chinese rocket launcher: inaccurate but ingenious

Ufos / Scandinavian Rocket
Through 1946 numerous ghost rockets were reported flying over Norway and Sweden, and even crashing. This is one of the few photographs

Goddards Moon Project
American engineer GODDARD proposes to reach the Moon by rocket ship : illustration shows the vessel approaching the crater of Plato

Wilde / Rocket / King
Let the fireworks begin, said the King

Opel Rocket Plane 1929
German inventor Fritz von Opel tries out his rocket-propelled aeroplane

German Rocket Experiment
German rocket experiments on a windswept spit of land - filling the device with its chemical fuel

Rocket Train Project
This is German inventor Max Valiers magnetic rail car project of 1932, but given a face-lift by the American publisher. It sounds great in principle, but

Space Rocket
A space rocket arrives

ROCKET GUN
Rocket-Launcher Capable of being Fired Round Corners

Apartment Block with Provision for Rocket Take-Off on the Roof

Suburban Home, Rocket
Suburban home with Garage for the Family Rocketship

Space Rocket Carrier
Interplanetary Spacecraft, Carrying Four Smaller Rockets

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