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01.03.2024 - 18:39 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
It's not every day that you see a rocket hurtling along the M60. But that is the sight that stunned motorists were greeted with this afternoon.
Footage taken from the Manchester Evening News's office in Chadderton, Oldham, showed the missile being transported along the motorway on the back of a truck.
One person who witnessed it said: "An absolutely bizarre sight to see on the M60 amongst all the regular traffic. Not the kind of thing you expect to see looking out an office window on a Friday afternoon."
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The eight metre-long rocket, named Skybolt 2, belongs to Starchaser Industries, an aerospace company based in Hyde. While it is real, the missle has been stripped and does not contain any propellant.
Steve Bennett, the founder and managing director of Starchaser Industries, said he was returning from a visit to a school at the time. As well as carrying out research and development, the firm regularly makes educational visits to schools to encourage children to study science.
Mr Bennett said the rocket regularly draws quizzical looks from other drivers and passers-by whenever he transports it up and down the country.
"I'll be driving along the motorway and get people overtaking and undertaking me," he said. "I then realise I've got the rocket on the back and it makes sense."
Mr Bennett, a former Salford University lab assistant, set up Starchaser in 1992 as an experimental rocket test programme. It later became Starchaser Industries.
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