Blue Steel nuclear missile

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9.rm 1948-5? After the RAF. From battery deliveries to rocket research! 0 mins. Demobbed 1948, Standard 14
6 mins. Alan Christian and Grittleton pub, Phil and Keith band
8 mins. No car no money 1950
10 mins. Lots of band work, Ryde garage and Exide job - Isle of Wight
12 mins. Keith Beken, became a partner in TV and Bike business
17 mins. ** Saunders Roe, Rocket research **
20 mins. Highdown founder team member, Black Knight missile
26 mins. 1956. Flew to Australia in a Hastings to set up missile tests, Woomera, South Australia
40 mins. Isle of wight launch site - Highdown
43 mins. Sputnik monitoring
49 mins. Rocket launch water supply
51 mins. Appretices build miniature Black Knight and launch it in secret. Hit gas showroom!

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We buzzed Adelaide in a new Comet

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0 mins. Buzzing Adelaide in a new jet Comet, lost radar, radio, compass and flaps! Back to UK
10 mins. Blue Steel - stand off missile, Doug Bolton move to Elliotts IN Division as trials engineer at Borehamwood, digs in North London
12 mins. Move to field trials Woodford Chshire, Alan Fraser, Pete Wilson, Flower Pot pub
## listen to 14 mins- 27 mins again - interupted by phone call - Paul saying Dad is in hospital with a perforated bowel :( ##
20 mins. Sue returns to Australia alone, Standard Enson
29 mins. Marrying Sue
32 mins. Fiddle about getting Sue back to UK, Sue keeps house for members of the team, self back to UK for 3 months
34 mins. Bass to Adelaide via USAF Starlifter
38 mins. bought Riley 1.5 and arranged shipping to outer harbour
39 mins. Back by air with John Flax, Maldives to Adelaide
40 mins. 3 months at Largs Pier Hotel - Doe Roberts RaE
41 mins. 179 The Esplanade - Largs Bay - Adelaide - best time of our lives, Cornish granite, HiFi from UK, Pekin Chest, 5 mins from Largs Bay hotel, beach across the road
51 mins. Holidays in Mt Gambia, Fish from the port (Italians), Sheeps head, meeting Doc Colin Alderman, Bob Carist
* Vehicles at Elliotts, Vanguard, Triumph

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0 mins. General about Blue Steel nuclear missile for V-type bombers - Vickers Valiant, Vulcan, Victor. Great team.
5 mins. Testing trials.
8 mins. Playing music: Largs Bay Hotel, good agent - Stan Sabella
10 mins. Joining the Beef Steak and Burgundy Club
12 mins. Visits to vineyards, John's night and Merrydown cider
22 mins. Hermen Thums, refrigerated trucks - cold beer and ice cream for beach parties
25 mins. Elliott Social Club bought a speedboat, outboard and trailer
28 mins. Kite and water skis
30 mins. Sand yacht, Alan York, go cart
33 mins. Flinders Ranges trip, John Ison, John Flaxman, Ginge Booth, outcasts catch rabbits, Leigh Creek coalfields to generator at Port Augustus, Fred Teagle
41 mins. Knee cap removal 1965
- I need to listen to rest of this bit and fix up notes here - trip back via Cocos, end of Blue Steel, start of NASA tracking stations

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