Re: Blue Streak

From: Henry Spencer (henry_at_spsystems.net)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 06:25:47 GMT

In article <110dokptjce1g8c@corp.supernews.com>,
Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> wrote:
>Was the intention to keep the kerosene on board at all times when the
>missile was deployed, with the missile stored horizontally?

No, the planned Blue Streak deployment was in vertical silos, with the
missile climbing out under its own power. (This scheme appears to have
been devised well before the US ICBM builders started thinking in similar
terms, and there may have been some flow of silo technology west across
the Atlantic in return for the engine and structure technology that went
east for Blue Streak.) Neither propellant was stored on board.

At least, that was the *final* version. It's just possible that ideas may
have differed early on. 

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