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... by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and featured three simple stablisation fins. The instrumented nosecone of Skylark had two bays, both of which could be pressurized and could carry dozens of instruments ... batteries. Six ground test firings took place before Skylark was first launched on February 14 1957. Two more instrumented tests took place before Skylark 4 reached an altitude of 77 miles on ...

... most successful sounding rocket, the Skylark , on February 13th 1957. One of the companies involved in developing Skylark was the Bristol Aeroplane Company. ref 4 The Skylark was essentially a 17 inch diameter ... this Canadian rocket was named the Propulsion Test Vehicle or PTV. CARDE had acquired some Skylarks from the Bristol Aeroplane Company in England. Bristol modified the Raven's fore and aft ...

... cosmonauts is very important." ''(Text)'' Success of the fully stabilized British Skylark rocket in obtaining new astrophysical data was described. Skylark was a single-stage, solid-fuel vehicle designed to carry 150 ... , reported Kenneth Pounds, lecturer at Leicester College, England, and one of its users: "The new Skylark has revolutionized the whole field of rocket research as far as we're concerned," He ...

... . D. Papworth Petrel Performance and Facilities 161 - G.G.E. Lewis Recent Developments in the Skylark Sounding Rocket 175 - Book Reviews 183 - Book Notices 189 - JBIS Notices 191 - - '''Vol.24 No ... Ion Source Performance Limits 385 - C. T. Farr Broadband Determination of Sky Brightness from a Skylark Sounding Rocket 393 - M. Vertregt Theory of the Step Rocket 409 - Book Notices 431 - - '''Vol ...

... Monitoring 1 - J. K. Abbott R. I. Jude The Skylark Earth-Observation Platform 10 - B. S. E. Beattie The Earth Resource Skylark - A Progress Report 14 - E. S. Owen Jones N. D. E. Custanee Digitised Analysis of Skylark Rocket Imagery 18 - K. Clayton Synoptic Observations at ... Mass Spectrometer for Studies of the Lower Ionosphere 481 - J. W. Furst D. J. Brown Skylark 8 - High Altitude Sounding Rocket 486 - C. V. Groves An Analysis of Grenade-Experiment Winds ...

... Raven solid fuel engine. The Canadian Armament Research & Development Establishment ( CARDE ) acquired a cluster of Skylarks from Britain and working in conjunction with Canadair of Montreal, Bristol Aerospace in the UK and Bristol Aerospace Canada they created what became the Black Brant. The Skylark/Raven was 17 feet in length. Bristol Aerospace of Canada were given a contract by ...

... -18) A British Aircraft Corp. team had successfully launched the second of a series of Skylark 12 high-altitude research rockets from the Andoya Range in arctic Norway to investigate auroral ... ground receivers for 14 min of the flight. First launch of the new three-stage Skylark , capable of carrying payloads to three times the altitude of earlier versions, took place 21 ...

... ORBITING ENERGY SYSTEMS 265 - R.J. JUDE AN ATTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN EARTH POINTING SKYLARK ROCKET 272 - - '''SPACE COLONIZATION''' '''EDITOR: DR. R. C. PARKINSON''' '''VOLUME 30 No. 8 AUGUST 1977 ... . GILLIAM and D. M. WALTZ SPACE PROCESSING PAYLOADS --- A REQUIREMENTS OVERVIEW 363 - J. B. HILTON SKYLARK SOUNDING ROCKET FOR SPACE PROCESSING EXPERIMENTS 377 - P. D. MATTHEWS J. N. LOWE A PRELIMINARY ...

... . 28 No. 4 April 1975''' - D. J. Brown P. M. Crosse. The Development of the Skylark 10A Sounding Rocket 227 - V. F. Polcaro C. Ulivieri The Effect of Lift on Re ... - R. Klein Equipment and Programme of the Mobile Raketenbasis 250 - F. C. Salway Recovery of Skylark Payloads Using an Air Snatch System 257 - J. W. Parkin The Performance of Black Arrow ...

... ,000 pounds of thrust for 20 seconds, which was about 25% better than the standard Skylark . ref 4 Black Brant would be launched for the first time seven months later, on ... used by NASA for decades while simultaneously cutting deeply into the market for Britain's Skylark. However, by the time Black Brant had evolved enough to become operational, the pendulum had ...

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