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The Rocket Propulsion Establishment, Westcott

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. E. P. Dunning
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In the first issue of the Journal for 1966, the Centenary Year of the Royal Aeronautical Society, an account of the history of the Rocket Propulsion Establishment, no matter how brief, may appear to some as an unwarrantable intrusion. It is in this year, 1966, that the Establishment will complete only its second decade of existence, but it may claim to have contributed to the advancement of aeronautics, in the broadest sense of this term.

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A Century of British Aeronautics
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 661 , January 1966, pp. 285 - 287
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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Note on page 286 * A development from LOP/GAP, an anti-aircraft missile designed in 1944 by the then Armament Design Department with the assistance of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. (Isaac Lubbock) and the then Armament Research Department. These two Departments were later combined to form the present RARDE. The original motor was designed to use liquid oxygen and petrol, but this combination was abandoned in favour of liquid oxygen with methyl alcohol/water in 1947 when Westcott took over the development.