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During its (more) active years, Ian Southall (whose book "Woomera" came out in 1962 https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Se...&tn=Woomera&kn= , and whose book "Rockets in the Desert: The Story of Woomera" was published in 1964: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Se...+the+Desert&kn= ), was regarded with great suspicion by the average (Woomeran?), and with even more by the police/security chief (who didn't enjoy--and was open out it--having to be Ian Southall's "handler" during his stays in town, and visits to the rangehead). But everyone there--who knew about them--appreciated his books about the work of Woomera, after they came out; he told the story of their work, their daily lives, and their hardships living there, and: Here (see: https://www.oldrocketforum.com/atta...achmentid=40105 ) is a paper by Kerrie Dougherty about the Australian sounding rockets, which I posted on the Australian Rocketry Forum--along with other scale data--a few years ago (see: https://forum.ausrocketry.com/viewtopic.php?t=4890 ). Plus: Had you told those tourists the Enerjet-30 powered models were new, secret devices, they would likely have believed it. :-) Interestingly, Ian Southall also got a Skylark souvenir, a twice-flown solid metal nose tip that doubled as the radiator of the antenna (the rest of the rocket, or at least the rest of the conical nose, served as the RF ground); he included a photograph of his well-traveled new paperweight in "Rockets in the Desert: The Story of Woomera." Today--as visiting members of the Australian Rocketry Forum https://forum.ausrocketry.com/ have posted--the museum again welcomes visitors, and the locals don't bristle at visiting space modelers photographing and "taping out" the sounding rockets scattered indoors and outdoors, around town (and you're right--Woomera is a multi-hour bus ride from any other abodes of modern, civilized life!).
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