Massive Rocket Engine Test Site - Abandoned in the Woods
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- čas přidán 25. 03. 2021
- Reaction Motors developed some of the most incredible rocket engines known to man back in the 1940's, 50's and 60's. Now this massive complex sits in the woods abandoned forever.
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That was a good video. From the thumbnail it looked creepy, l didn’t think it was gonna be funny.
Thanks 👍
How did you get started on making videos on CZcams
I will be watching it tomorrow, I am watching all your videos prior to subscribing last year, your one of my favs 🎉
I love the sound of the broken up floor tile mixed with sand and pebbles it makes it sound like you're walking on bubble wrap.
Dude for real... I love that sound so much
That sounds gives me a Woody
The "Wooden Building" at 8:45 is actually an old form of air conditioner. The fan was to help cool the water that ran down the slated walls. A sump conditioner.
Yup, cooling tower.
Another perfect example why I love your channel so much. Chris explores places others don't. Keep up with your amazing content.
Miss your videos brother! Hope you’re having a great weekend🤙 Much Respect man🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Stay safe
A shame It was allowed to fall into such disrepair. With it's history, it could have been turned into an outdoor museum.
agreed and interesting that it is not.
its new jersey what did you expect
Was so hoping you'd go back past where the opossum was and it would be gone! Gave me Over The Hedge vibes. 🤣
Your videos are great, most people will never get to see what you share with the world with the history behind it, thank you so much for all your awesome work. JJ
I’m so glad that you did the voiceover. I always feel like I just came from a history class after watching your videos and enjoy every single one. Thank you Chris. 😁☮️👍
That thing died 5 minutes ago. Gave me a chuckle
So funny, when I saw the fan building I said out loud, "oh, a cooling tower" then you jump in and said it..very cool history and location. Thanks for exploring.
Thanks for going back for another look around.
I did check out your first video and thst one was very interesting. And yes I too had never heard of this building. Thanks for this trek into the wilderness that you took.
I knew it!
All those cooling tubes (18 minutes in..)
I was gonna say, "radioactive".. yep.
Remember, a meltdown (and spills, too) is forever!
Yep I aggree. Chris?
The gift that keeps on giving☆
Thanks for keeping it clean and professional.
I always love your explores. Nice escape from the twilight zone we are currently living in. 😌
And you ain't kidding about the twilight zone!
Always enjoy your stuff bud.
I have been watching a lot of your videos. You have inspired me to start my own channel. It’s been slow moving but I’m enjoying the journey. Thank you very much.
Glad to see you in my backyard making videos! Keep up the good work!!
You might do wise to take a geiger counter into some of these places.
@@danielknepper6884 They are very easy to purchase online. Amazon even carries them
Radiation isn’t what we’ve been told. “They” lie. Research Galen Windsor. Even if “radioactive “ he’s fine. Nothing to worry abt.
13:49 Kaman Nuclear formed in the late 1950s and moved to Colorado Springs in 1960. Then it quickly became Kaman Sciences, when people started to realize that nuclear wasn't as great as it was made out to be. So you can date that equipment to almost exactly 1960.
@@DeagleGamesTV I don't know, but it does sound interesting. I wish he had zoomed in on the back of the packages to see the instructions. It must have been some kind of an adhesive.
It sucks seeing all of these historically meaningful locations, like this, just disintegrating and withering away. This is just one example, and probably not the best as far as historical importance, but there are so many places of incredible historical importance that are being left to the elements with zero attempts at preserving them. As an American, seeing things like this happening makes me both sad and very frustrated. In other countries located in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, etc, they have buildings that are hundreds or thousands of years old. They've withstood mother nature and human nature, and they still stand so they can tell their citizens and the rest of the world their stories. I know we're still a relatively young country, here in the United States, but we have very few places that have stood the test of time. It's time for us to have a little pride. Just sad.
@Dan Cooper "yeah, but those are ruins"
Not entirely true my friend... There are a great deal of buildings that old, that are still standing and being taken care of/looked after. Some still have people living in them.
And an "artificial" country? What makes the United States artificial?
Hey Chris! Been a minute. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome adventure! Love seeing your videos!
thanks for bringing us along mang! it was a cool experience! :)
Nice job buddy! This is quite a place. Thanks for showing us around it!
It would be interesting to interview former employees of these places.
It's always so interesting to see these places, and your information is very helpful! 👍🏻 Love it~!
Thanks Loretta
This was very interesting! I had no idea!!!! Thanks! Pat
Wow, i remember the other video you did. I do the same thing, miss things the first trip or learn more history later and want to add it. Watching other explorers and doing my own explores is far better than anything on tv, lol. Thanks for the adventure 😃👍👍 Take Care
Interesting place! Thanks for showing this.
One of your best videos IMO. Love locations like this, even though it had graffiti there was still enough left to make it really cool. Thanks and stay safe. JD in Central Texas. 🇺🇲
I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for the video
Kind of sad but very cool tour. I enjoy any history that has to do with the space race, so thanks for the video! :-)
At 1:35, I believe that is a machine tool foundation. There was probably a big lathe or milling machine set up there.
Excellent job as always I am watching all the ones you did prior to subscribing this past year ❤😊
It wasnt until the fan house that I realized which the older video was because it looks so different in summer!
Great idea to go back after a few years and at a different time of year. I enjoyed both videos and will certainly re-watch the new one, just like the first one. 👍
Made good on my promise, watched it again. 😉
Shame it only has 31k views at this point...
great video man love waching your vids ceep up the good work
Seems like the super fund clean-up crew took the money and did very little to clean up. Yeah, they took away the barrels of toxic waste but if they left the soil contaminated, well it feels like they just took the money and left the community to suffer the consequences.
That was really interesting, thanks!
Thanks for going back. It is interesting to see how much things have changed since your last video of this place. Always an odd thing or out-of-place thing appears. A mattress? Safe Travels.
Good video as usual, Chris. Please wear protective gear. I lived for five years as a small child in a neighborhood on a military base that was eventually declared a superfund site and demolished. There was a study that found nuclear, TCE, mustard gas residue, and more. I have had a host of health issues my entire adult life, including losing a major organ to cancer. Please be careful. Your videos are good, and I appreciate them, but they are not worth your future health.
Too damn neat. Love love love your videos my wife and I watch them a lot.
Best content of all of CZcams
Nice job Mobile Instinct. When the Proper People were at that location they didnt do half as good a job as you did. Great video and stay safe!
Would enjoy seeing a revisit to Mt. St. Helens too!
YES!
I agree about doing videos early in your CZcams career and then wanting to redo them later on when you are more polished. You can redo any video you like and most people will watch. Keep up the good work!
loved the art work all around the site...
Damn, this place looks awesome. I may have to check it out.
I was here a year or so ago..saw all the buildings.
There are some iron mines in this area.
Do you know the location?
@@fuchsiawtf of course I do..do a little leg work and you'll find it.
@@577buttfan Could you give me the town atleast? I'm confined to a bike so I want to waste as little time as possible lol.
@@fuchsiawtf they were cleaning it up last time I was there it's a super fund site shoot me an email
This place is awesome. Just yesterday they started to demolish everything up there and it will be missed. Me and my friends love going up there
The troughs in the floor in the first room were most likely for wires going between computers and would have had a floor over the top of it.
Very interesting and informative 🐻🤗👍
How I love the graffiti juxtaposed to the land and rusty infrastructures. Chris.... your videos are always so visually poetic, no matter where you're at. I feel like I'm discovering it along with you (even though it shows you do a ton of research for your stories). 🚀🚀🚀
I like his respectful demeanor when he visits a place w/traumatic history.
Love your videos, Chris. Who’s with you on this one?
Buildings like this that show us history should be preserverd so we could learn from it
What a huge place. Why did they just abandon it and not reuse it for something else? Great stuff and thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend.
Government always waste money.
Buildings as well as engines and flying machines were measured out with slide rules and in-the head calculations, never a computer or calculator involved. Amazing.
Interesting place. Now I have to go watch the original.
😮 wow i like the way your adventures
I gotta kick out of the toilet story.
As I did. 🙂👍
It certainly makes for an upsurge of interest! 🤪😁
a wee bit of humour there
So cool!!
17:24 if you were a rocket scientist or maybe had stayed at a holiday inn last night you would know : - )
Don't flush the toilet! Talk about a purge.
Haha definitely
Kind of hope you go more south, towards Delaware, my area, and find stuff.
So from what I've gleamed from other youtube channels (not necessarily urban exploration). So those cutouts on the ground the ones that look like channels are used for collection metal shavings frome a C&C. See water would be running through in the channels and the shavings would fall into them and be whooshed away and collected for recycling.
I believe if you watch "smarter everyday" an episode released not to long ago where he gos to a rocket manufacturing plant and gets a tour by the CEO. In that episode he talks about the metal bits getting collected in channels look just like those.
Good suggestion to do this place...
Some of the people went to work at
" Skunk works " at Area 51, worked on the SR71s
We now have jets that fly at mach 8
Amazing to think about modern R&D buildings today looking like this in 50-75 years.
Gotta lay a bunch of mulch around thr rain barrels today. Plus re-direct and replace over flow tubing. Probably snake the tubes to an outdoor drain.
Man, you should’ve had a damn Geiger counter with you 😂
Now that’s a Royal flush , wow 😂
Should have had the new guy use the water fountain during testing.
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That weird building is a cooling tower.
Very old one. Water runs in between all those slats and the fan pulls in air to cool it.
There are induction and deduction fans.
And those are monorail systems on the ceiling to carry probably very heavy engines or the rockets themselves. That's why the ceilings are so high in the doorways are so tall. Poly system works along the monorails to carry them from room to room.
So Thiokol bought Reaction Motors, and later became Morton-Thiokol... which might ring a bell when thinking of the space shuttle, namely they designed and built the side rocket boosters for the shuttle, and it was their famous O-rings that burned up and caused the Challenger shuttle to explode. They were eventually purchased by Northrop Grumman... which among a zillion things they make, are probably most famous for designing and building the B-2 Stealth Bomber... which cost $1 billion dollars, EACH. We have 21 of them. So you could almost say that a tiny little bit of the DNA in the B-2 came from this abandoned location. Amazing.
These defense companies milk the shit out of our tax dollars. These things REALLY don't cost that much. These companies (Northrop-Grumman ... Raytheon) have an advantage because the government has no choice but to pay the money.
I love inhaling asbestos in my lungs. It’s just a good feeling. Mold also. So exhilarating 😁
You missed a great abandoned iron mine right outside the fence. Also, up until a few years ago there was another massive test stand a few miles away that was better preserved. However it's torn down now. Reaction Motors in NJ closed in 1971 or 2. Their manufacturing plant is still in use by other companys with some good signs out front. See my channel for other vids.
I saw that there is another section but it's on the nearby army base. Or it looks like it at least.
As an aircraft and science-fiction nut in the 1950s, when I was a teen, I devoured anything I could find on the Douglas Skyrocket and X-15s (had a Strombecker solid model of the skyrocket) and I'm pretty sure both were USAF projects. (The X-15s were part of the X-plane project, shared by the Air Force and NASA.) I'm curious about the water tower that appears in the BG of some of the shots. Was that part of this property, or was there another property nearby? (However, I would've thought this site would be isolated from prying eyes.) Good exploration, as usual, Chris! Stay safe, everybody.
The floor cut outs is for telecommunications and computer wiring so much is used or changed they make sections of floors removable or the whole floor in some rooms.
This is very interesting! I worked for AT+T for many years. I wonder if AT+T worked with Reaction during this time era. AT+T had a huge presence in NJ for years. Former German scientists after WW2, probably worked at Reaction... very knowledgeable abf jet engines during Hitler's regime.
So, at about 1:40.., is that the lift-pad or lifters to pull up the rockets, onto the launch-pad? sure looks like that would be it.
I love your calm peaceful voice, I know I can watch your videos without waking my wife
@Dan Cooper Not everybody views these videos on a phone.
The first thing I thought about when you walk through that door was are you going to meet Jason bright if I'm correct that's his name it's fallout New Vegas he was a ghoul and they hide up in the repcon rocket facility . Lol
Wonder what the rad magic was? Thanks for the video
Upstate NY had old icbm launching sites.
Yet another great video!
When I first saw the rocket test site headline. I thought you would be in Alabama or Mississippi
You should explore some ghost towns in Idaho.
That weird building is a " Chiller " usually used to exhaust heat for HVAC system
Hey Chris? I live in in “rural northern N.J.” and have been looking foe this site myself. Any leads as to where this is? (Town and county, if you don’t mind)
Great video, very interesting! 👍🏻
I've been way back in your videos. Think I've watched them all. You definitely came along way. Doing great work! Keep it up!
There's a few under ground missile silos where I'm at. Think they are anyway.. ill have to see if they can be entered and let you know.
You could have looked at the manufacture date on those used tires to figure out a rough idea of when the facility was in Use
Those were just dumped tires, probably by someone local.
Definitely a cooling tower, the wooden structure with the fan.
I did some research and I found out that this place is apparently on the national register of historic places
Great video😀
JonLevi referred me to ur channel
Take a look at the sad sad story about the "Down the hill bridge" 😐
Are you talking about that trestle in Delphi?
@@samanthab1923 yes😯
Used to play here when I was a kid.... Sad to see all the tagging done now.
Someone else called it “artwork”, and said they loved it. 😑
@@deendrew36 graffiti and tagging are different things.
Graffiti is a form of art and tagging is just some teens with spray paint who think they're cool.
@@bubblemonkeys you could be right.