TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beadell,Len
TI  - Still in the bush
SN  - 9781864367836
U1  - 994.238 23
PY  - 1975///
CY  - Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.
PB  - New Holland
KW  - Beadell, Len,
KW  - Woomera Rocket Range
KW  - History
KW  - Launch complexes (Astronautics)
KW  - South Australia
KW  - Woomera
KW  - Rockets (Aeronautics)
KW  - Launching
KW  - Australia, Central
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - First published: 1965
N2  - "We're looking for someone to start some sort of rocket range - or something." Len Beadell accepted the challenge in this casual remark and began his involvement in what was to become a multi-billion dollar weapons testing project in the Australian outback - on the Woomera Rocket Range. Beadell and his team built roads, laid out town sites and undertook an enormous survey programme in order to prepare a test launching area. The problems ranged from taking astrofixes in a cloudy sky and becoming surrounded by a sea of red mud to patching a bald spot on a pet joey. All were solved by using those two most necessary ingredients of life in the bush - ingenuity and imagination. Beadell's descriptions of the countryside, the adventures the team experienced, and the characters they encountered are by turns illuminating and hilarious; Australian Outback; Travel Writing
ER  -