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| UER Forum > UE Main > Why you should not put off exploring a thing. (Viewed 4402 times) |
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| | | | Re: Why you should not put off exploring a thing. < Reply # 4 on 6/19/2014 12:43 AM > | Reply with Quote
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| | | Re: Why you should not put off exploring a thing. < Reply # 10 on 2/8/2019 4:25 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by bobthetob
My dad was a test cell engineer at Pyestock, he took me on a few trips when it was still operational in the early 60,s. My brother in law was security officer at Pyestock just after it closed and he said he didn't give a toss about anything that involved leaving his heated shack. Pystock was home to the 'National Gas Turbine Establishment', I worked in 1974 as a welder on the construction of a wind tunnel there. The N.G.T.E. collabarated with the 'Royal Aircraft Establshment in conducting some of the highest security, above top secrect projects, space age cutting edge technology of the 20-75 era. I wont drift to far into speculation but from what I've gathered from working there and hearing first hand accounts these facilities were the closet thing the U.K. had at the time to an area 51. It really is worth doing an image search for 'N.G.T.E' and if anyone has any shots would be great to see them! I would have loved to have explored it but I left for Canada circa 75.
| That's some wonderful insider info. I love Pyestock, it will always be on a pedestal as the greatest place I ever explored and my four visits in 2010 simply weren't enough. I've read up so much about it, there is a fantastic website out there - www.ngte.co.uk - which has hundreds of photos from mid-00s explores of the site before security went really crazy, as well as the biggest archive of documentation and material I've ever seen on Pyestock including breakdowns of what every building did. In the winter of 2010/2011 I was lucky enough to explore it's half-sister just down the road next to Farnborough Airport - the place formerly known as the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, latterly the Centre for Human Sciences. This was, if anything, an even more secretive place than Pyestock as it was purely for military technology not a combination of military/civilian like the NGTE was. There is almost no information online about the site and what they did however on my last explore there as they were demolishing it I found a complete site survey report from 1999, a couple of years before it closed alongside Pyestock which detailed every building and what it had in it and what it did. The facility was used to develop and test new military equipment using live human soldiers as test subjects, subjecting the equipment to tests in simulated real-world conditions. As such there was a pair of enormous climatic cold chambers, a pair of large heat chambers, decompression chambers, mock up fighter pilot cockpits, an impact test track and the only remaining operational human centrifuge in the UK. The site was flattened in 2011 however the defence company QinetiQ still own and run the centrifuge, so there is the bizarre setting of a massive human centrifuge building sitting smack bang in the middle of a new housing estate!
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