Rockets Collection (page 2)

Royal Air Force Douglas Boston III with rockets
Royal Air Force Douglas DB-7B Boston III with rockets. Much confusion surrounds the Havoc / Boston / A-20 names and designations. The RAF and Commonwealth designations were: Boston I & II Date: 1942

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

Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket Detatched from the B-29 Superfortress at 35, 000Ft at the Start of a 1300 Mph Filght over the Mojave Desert with 34 Year Old Test-Pilot Mr Bill Bridgeman Flying Date: 1951

Chance Vought RGM-15 Regulus 2 / II
Chance Vought Rgm-15 Regulus 2 Cruise-Missile Take-Off from a Mobile Launcher Powered by a Single Rocket Booster with Canted Nozzles and Afterburner Type Flames Visible Date: 1950s

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

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

French Nieuport 16 with Le Prieur rockets
French Nieuport 16 with eight Le Prieur rockets for use primarily against Zeppelins. Date: circa 1916

Postal Rockets
a Mailboat Fires Off Guided Rockets for Postal Delivery

Saucer and Rockets
Train of Rockets Towed by a Flying Saucer

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