Performance Of Missiles
(Rec. 8 pjn.) LONDON, April 25. Manufacturers today gave some details of the “Bloodhound” and the “Firestreak” guided missiles named in the Air Ministry report. The Bristol Aeroplane Company said the “Bloodhound” surface-to-air missile is powered by the Bristol Thor ramjet and boosted to a speed of more than 1000 miles an hour by rockets. It is the company’s biggest guided weapon project.
A spokesman for de Havilland Propellers, Dtd., said that the “Firestreak” was an air-to-air weapon which “homes” on the heat rays emitted by enemy aircraft. “This is done by means of an infra-red homing system which possesses qualities of great range and sensitivity,” he said. The weapon is effective up to great heights and may be fired at long ranges by fighter aircraft travelling at supersonic speed. It was tried out on the Australian Woomera range and had destroyed many target aircraft.
Backing for Nixon.-—-Mr John Roosevelt, youngest son of the late President, Franklin Roosevelt, said last night that he would fight to make Mr Richard Nixon, the Vice-President, the Republican candidate for President in 1960. Meriden (Connecticut), April 26.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 11
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