Search Results: Aerospace Test Site
One of eight remaining huge dirigible hangars built by the Navy during WWII remains at this site, now used by TCOM, an airship manufacturing company, as manufacturing and test location. The massive wooden structure is 1,040 feet long, 150 feet high and 296 feet wide....
Sandia National Laboratory, the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons lab, has a facility on the Barking Sands Missile Test Range Site. The Kauai Test Facility assembles and tests rockets and missiles, studying launching, flight, and impact characteristics. Barking...
The Capistrano Test Site is a remote, 2,700 acre R&D complex in the hills at the edge of Camp Pendleton, operated by TRW's Defense Space Systems Group. It was built up dramatically to support space-based "Star Wars" weapons systems in the 1980's, and is still at...
General Electric operates a multifaceted and remote field test station, 60 miles from Cincinnati, in the rural, rolling hills near the town of Peebles. The secretive 7,000 acre site has test stands and other support facilities for testing aircraft engines, and for...
The Malta Test Station is a 165-acre industrial R...
Hurricane Mesa Test Track is a research and development, test and evaluation (R...
The legendary Canadian weapons engineer Gerald Bull operated a test site that straddled the international border, near Jay, Vermont. First known as Highwater Station (the name coming from the closest town on the Canadian side) the location was created on land Bull...
A commercial munitions and explosives test facility, adjacent to the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Lab test facility, Site 300. Operated for years by Physics International, a company that works in explosive research and pulsed power applications....
An abandoned military launch site, consisting of a weathered bunker and a launch pad. Located in Utah's West Desert, adjacent to the unrelated Grassy Mountain Hazardous Waste dump. The site of the first successful test of the supersonic Ground to Air Pilotless Aircraft...
A rocket and missile test facility on the western edge of the island of Kauai. The seven-mile-long coastal installation is used by the Navy and Army as a ground station on the Pacific Missile Range, a military operations range that covers around 17,000 square miles of...
This is one of two outdoor radar test ranges operated by aerospace companies in the Antelope Valley. This secure facility is operated by Northrop Grumman and was built in the mid 1980's to pursue the development of Stealth technologies (Lockheed-Martin operates a...
A semi-active military site near Gallup, in western New Mexico, with hundreds of munitions igloos. The depot was established in 1918, and was deactivated in 1993. Much of the base is being "demilitarized," with private contractors working on weapons disposal at the...
A major military and aerospace site, Vandenberg is the United States' only West Coast space launch complex, and one of only two major space launch facilities in the country (the other is at Cape Canaveral, FL). This remote Central California base covers 98,400 acres,...
The Helendale Radar Cross Section Facility is an aircraft research facility developed and operated by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. It is a secretive test range developed at an old WWII training field, used to measure the radar reflectivity of stealth aircraft...
Area 51 is a portion of the Nellis Range Complex where the Groom Lake Base is located. The base which, still, officially doesn't exist, is a test and development installation that has been used by the Air Force, CIA, and other government agencies. Though no official...
This remote former World War II desert airfield has developed some very interesting and unusual features. It is a center for civilian aviation R&D, a major aircraft storage and scrap yard (possibly the largest nonmilitary one in the country), a busy film site, and...
Thiokol builds NASA’s space shuttle rocket boosters at this isolated facility near the Promontory Mountains. Other defense and propulsions systems are developed and tested here by Thiokol, on this major R&D and production site, part of which was once designated as...
Also known as the Santa Susana Field Test Facility, this is a major rocket and propulsion R...
Work on the Trident missile and other surface-to-air missiles was performed here, at this remote lab and field test facility in the hills north of Santa Cruz. Several test site areas are scattered around the woods here.
Manufacture site for aircraft engine components, and test facility for all of Pratt & Whitney's commercial engines. 1,100 acre site, employing around 3,000. Pratt and Whitney is one of the world's leaders in aircraft engine manufacturing, and is a subsidiary of the...