Noun
blue streak
(originally US) To talk quickly and at length. Originally, to move with the speed of a bolt of lightning.
to talk a blue streak
Britain with Blue Streak became the first stage of the European launch vehicle with France providing the Coralie second stage and Germany the third. Source: Internet
A lesson I tried to teach my son the first time I heard him let fly a blue streak. Source: Internet
Both the Centaur and Blue Streak had proved to be very reliable up to this point, and since they were both already designed development costs would have been low. Source: Internet
Hawker Siddeley Dynamics proposal In 1972, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics (HSD) produced a brochure for a design using Blue Streak as the first stage of a two-stage to orbit rocket, with an American Centaur upper stage. Source: Internet
Black Arrow carried out four test launches (without an additional Blue Streak stage) from Woomera between 1969 and 1971, with the final launch carrying the satellite Prospero X-3 into orbit. Source: Internet
Black Prince main In 1959, a year before the cancellation of the Blue Streak as a missile, the government requested that the RAE and Saunders-Roe design a carrier rocket based on Blue Streak and Black Knight. Source: Internet