Our charge is that they have persevered far too long, against every sort of advice and evidence, in sticking to a weapon which we now have to abandon, and which therefore is apt to become a total loss and a total waste of our defence effort, unless, for purely fortuitous reasons which have nothing to do with the original decision for Blue Streak, we can find a place for it in space research. The Government reply has not so far been very convincing. Mr. Sandys, the Minister of Aviation, complained that the Labour Government had not done much work on ballistic rockets in its time, but at least the V-bombers, which were set in hand in those days, are still effective as part of our independent British deterrent: and it is, and must be, the Party of the Government in power for the last nine years who must take the responsibility for this.

November 18, 2024 - In the 1950s, the British independent nuclear deterrent was provided by the V-bomber force, so called because its aircraft types were the Valiant, Vulcan, and Victor. But, in April 1957, the British government produced a White Paper on future defense policy [1] that essentially stated that ...

(Reel 2) VIPs arrive in RAAF aircraft as final checks on the rocket motors are carried out. Ground control. The rocket is finally prepared for take-off. More last-minute checks, then launch. The rocket flies off, monitored by radar. Rousing music swells as she streaks past the moon.

Britain accepted the proposal and called their missile Blue Streak. By 1955, design of Blue Streak was under way. De Havilland Aircraft (which later became part of Hawker Siddeley Dynamics) were tasked with building the main body of the rocket, whilst Rolls Royce built the engines.

With the cancellation of its ICBM, Blue Streak, two years ago the UK abandoned its effort to keep up with the US and the USSR in the range of weapons systems available for its defense. It still has, however, the RAF V-bomber force, capable of delivering H-bombs of British design and manufacture ...

June 12, 2026 - This was also the site where the RZ.2 rocket engines and also the complete Blue Streak missile were tested. The best sites for silo construction were the more stable rock strata in parts of southern and north-east England and eastern Scotland, but the construction of many underground silos ...

May 24, 2017 - This followed the military’s ‘Rainbow Codes’ where each code name began with a colour, followed by a noun selected from a list. Blue Streak would carry a nuclear warhead, capable of mass destruction. About 3,240 hectares of uninhabited moorland in Cumbria were chosen as the site for the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment.

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All the advice which reached us at the time, much of it from people who must be presumed to be advising the Minister, condemned the idea of fixed-site liquid-fuelled rockets, and, in particular, condemned the idea of Blue Streak immediately after the Minister made that announcement.

June 6, 2019 - Under its charter, ELDO is going to develop an independent, non-military European satellite carrier rocket, to be called Europa. The Blue Streak will be the first stage of the rocket. France will provide the second stage, which is going to be ...

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An image of a British Blue Streak rocket, being transported on a large vehicle outside the assembly building. This photo belonged to Cyril Albert Knight, known to friends as Bill. Bill worked for W. Watson and Sons Ltd - based in Barnet in Hertfordshire, specialists in optical instruments.

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January 4, 1992 - Blue Streak was then costing £500 000 a month. On 28 November, Peter Thorneycroft, the Conservative government’s Minister of Aviation wrote, in a memorandom to the Cabinet: ‘We have reliable information that the Americans are stepping up the bidding in their offers to the Italians in an effort to coax the Italians away from Blue Streak in the belief that this would wreck the chances of Europe having an independent launcher.’

partment, who had worked on the · Sprite, Super-Sprite, and Spectre · rocket engines at DeHavilland until · 1955.28 However, these engines were · small, with thrusts between 5,000 · and 8,000 pounds. The engines that · would propel Blue Streak would · have a thrust of 135,000 pounds, so ·

Part 4: Attach the mylar streamer to your rocket using plastic packaging tape. Also see how to use carpenter's wood filler to seal the surface of the balsa wood fins. Part 5: The Blue Streak comes with a motor adapter that allows you to use smaller 13mm diameter motors in the kit as well as the larger 18mm diameter ones.

September 17, 2025 - The Blue Streak Rockets was a three-girl act of dubious morality that Dennis Tanner booked for a charity concert for the Over 60's Club‏‎ held in the Glad Tidings Mission Hall in March 1962.

Two black and white photographs showing a Blue Streak rocket and members of the team that worked on it. The photographs were donated by the family of Clifford "Taff" Stillman, who worked on the Blue Streak Electrical Vehicle Equipment Section. The accompanying newspaper cutting shows Clifford Stillm

November 29, 2019 - Traces of Blue Streak and related rocket projects can be found in the Australian desert, on an industrial park outside Aylesbury, jutting out of a cliff face on the Isle of Wight and amid the moorlands of Cumbria.