The Rocket Men: Blue Peter Rocket

The Blue Peter rocket was launched from an MoD weapons range near Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands. Congratulations to Damian Hall and the rest of the Rocket Men team for a spectacular launch and successful recovery! One fin of the rocket was slightly damaged on landing, but the rocket is sufficiently intact that the Rocket Men intend to use it again.

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Science & Technology

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• blue
• launch
• men
• peter
• rocket
• aviation
• space

[damian666hall]

Hey Col...reckon anyone will notice that it's you and me commenting on here?

[shiponstails]

Chortle :-D

[luketorpedo]

"with every second that went by the temperature of the gases was dropping" Haven't found the specs on this thing, but appears to be using liquid oxidizer as shown by the boiling off of cryogenic gases, so wouldn't the issue be the temperature of the 'gases' rising, or the temperature of the adjacent components falling due proximity with the cold tank? Still a cool project though, either way. Just a blunder on the presenters part, not that kids would notice and it'll still inpsire them lol

[samthekingyo]

It's actually a nuclear missile they are nuking russia

[daveyp4755]

Ah, that's because we didn't have as big a budget for this one.

Still, at least the BP rocket launch and landing was sucessful, eh?

(Oh, and the Reliant Robin didn't REALLY explode..... there was nothing there to explode!)

Watch it on DVD, and move the action forward frame by frame. Clever editing - it's what we do ;-)

[daveyp4755]

Have just found your kind words about the BP rocket launch shots.

I'd rigged another camera at the base of the tower facing upwards, but because of the delay caused by the incoming flight (yes, it really DID happen like that!), the damned tape ran out - twenty seconds before the launch!

The (unseen!) footage from the nose-cone camera was excellent, as it shows the rocket down below, just as the 'chute is opening.

All in all, it was an excellent project.

Cheers

DP

[alancastrian]

retrovamp says "P.S-The walls have EARS!! "

HaHa a lot of people won't understand this quote.

A great acheivement by all concerned.

[lauriebooth]

Pity they didn't put the Blue Peter presenter in the rocket just to get rid of the stupid girl.

[1527cool]

she didn't desghn that rocket cause what ever she did it just broke

[1527cool]

This rocket is a tiny on compeard to the rocket robin off TOP GEAR. I didn't think that rocket was good really.

[peeeete]

tbh I think she designed it on rocksim herself then actually built it with all those guys just taking the credit

[makky123]

hahaha 6.00