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Aviation History
1960
1960 - 1992.PDF
476 FLIGHT, 16 September l%o SPADEADAM ROCKET ESTABLISHHENT No photograph can give a direct pictorial impression of the SRE, and accordingly our artist John Marsden has prepared this illustration. Even this is necessarily falsified, since if a true representation of the establish- ment were to be compressed into this page the individual installations would be too small to identify HTA, Missile TaM Ana: 1, missile service towers (C2 on the left, C3 on the right);2, gaseous-nitrogen cylinders; 3, liquid-oxygen storage tanks; 4, concrete spillways ana lagoons; 5, water reservoir (1,000,000gal): 6. control blockhouse; 7, cameraposition 4; 8, searchlight; 9, camera position 3; 10, instrumentation conduits ETA, Engln* Tost Are*: 2, 4, 5, as above; 11, engine test stands (from the left, A42,A3, A2 and A1); 12, control blockhouse linked to stands by underground duct; 13, local lox storage tanks; 14, water main from River Irthing CTA, Component Teet Area: 2, 3,6 as above; 15, nine individual test cells; It, high-Row water test building; 17, engine component test stands Lox Plant: 18, toe storage tank (500 tens); 19, liquid-nitrogen tanks; 20, transporta-tion by tanker to storage Miscellaneous: 21, administrative office*; 22, laboratories, technical offices,workshops and engine and missile preparation shops; 23, loudspeaker tower; 24, gaseous-nitrogen distribution pipe beirida road
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