Woomera Rocket Range - South Australia

Canberra Bomber & Meteor MK7 Trials Aircraft.

Woomera Rocket Range. Over 4000 launches over 30 years.

The word “Woomera” comes from the aboriginal spear thrower,
Len Beadell has added this to this cartoon card. Len carried out the initial surveys
needed to establish the Woomera Rocket Range. He chose the sites for the first atomic
bomb trials at Emu and for the later atomic tests at Maralinga. He was the author of six best-selling
books about his experiences in the outback of Australia.

An aerial photo of Woomera, many of the houses have been moved
before this shot was taken. Parts of the area resemble a ghost town with rows of well kept
houses and apartment blocks with nearly all of them empty, the result of a population
of 7000 dropping to around 600.

Aidan & Jilly Foley from Kerry & Tipperary Ireland in front of a Black Knight rocket.

Remains of Blue Streak launched 5 June 1964 retrieved from Simpson Desert 1994.

Remains of 1st stage of Redstone WRESAT recovered from Simpson Desert
April 18, 1990. Carried Australia’s first satellite in orbit Nov 1967.

Vic is dwarfed by the Black Arrow satellite launcher in
the Woomera Missile Park.

Model of the Black Arrow and launch tower at the indoor display.

Blue Steel, air to ground (to carry nuclear warhead) test fired 1956-1964.
The Gold Coast War Museum has a piece from one of these firings we bought on E-Bay.

Model of the launch tower built at Lake Hart (salt lake)

Val on Lake Hart and warning sign nearby

Two sections of the Missile Park

Kookaburra Rocket at the entrance to the Woomera township

Inside the Heritage Centre

Wirraway crashed at Island Lagoon near Woomera, Sat March 27th 1944 11.30am.
Flgt Sgt. George Frederick Quinn & Flgt Sgt. John Joseph Hayes were killed.

Blood Hound at entrance to Heritage Centre