Historic Woomera Films

On display in the museum at Woomera.
I highly recommend this film on the NFSA Australia channel:
• Rocket Range Australia

[@nicholasmaude6906]

The Blue Steel DID enter service and it was retired in the 1970s IIRC.

[@serendigity]

Yeah, narraters back in the day did get it wrong at times.

[@evanharries1561]

Correction to the narration. Blue steel did enter service due to the cancellation of the Skybolt missile and served until the introduction of the Polaris SLBM.

[@lesgl]

Rare shot of the original Blue Steel missile trials with the Vickers Valiant

[@richardvernon317]

Like the film of the Bloodhound 2 hitting the Meteor. If you look closely in slow motion settings you will see the missile loses both a wing and a tail plane just before it hits the aircraft.

[@Pixy335]

It's amazing to see a Valiant in flight.

[@nickashton3584]

In I dream of Jeani tv show there is a jindavik on one of its title credits

[@secondmouse1990]

Nice thrust vectoring on the black arrow. Hasn't been fancy stuff like that till Clipper Graham. Which worked great until the landing tripod failed and it fell over with engines going. McDonnell-Douglas wanted to replicate the egg shaped UFO landing stilts and achieve SSTO with powered vertical landing using chemical rockets.

[@zphil]

Dad told me that the Black Arrow launch at 4:42 was a failure - one of the motors was oscillating out of control, causing the unwanted oscillation you can see. It had to be destroyed by the Range Safety Officer.