Len tells of the establishment of the Woomera Rocket Range for the testing of rockets of all sizes including intercontinental ballistic missiles for the British and Australian governments during the Cold War years of the 1950s and 1960s. In his understated humerous style read by Mike Sheid, Len will entertain you with his yarns and memories of a very special era in Australia's history.
"We're looking for someone to start a rocket range - er..or something...." These were the words spoken to Len Beadell in 1949 by Colonel Fitzgerald , Director of the Australian Army Survey Corps. Len accepted the challenge and so began this story of surveying, navigating and surviving in the Central Australian outback.
This is Len's story of the establishment of the Woomera Rocket Range. The book opens with his discovery of a tribe of Aboriginals that had never seen white man before.
