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Space Invader

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This is somewhere ive always wanted to explore and will defintley be going back as it was to much to take in for one day .After wevsky mentioning it was his birthday soon ,so we decided it would be a good idea to spend the day crawling, climbing, and running from secca with 7 of are mates (y) at pyestock i use to just go to the pub :p

visited with wevsky, obscurity ,troglodyte,, nelly, skelton key, fortknoxZero ,frosty and maniac

a little history...

The National Gas Turbine Establishment(NGTE Pyestock) part of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), UK was the prime site in the UK for design and development of gas turbine and jet engines. It was created by merging the design teams of Frank Whittle's Power Jets and the RAE turbine development team run by Hayne Constant. NGTE spent most of its lifetime as a major testing and development center, both for experimental developments as well as supporting the major commercial engine companies.

Like many companies at this time, the newly merged venture was nationalised, and the search for a suitable site for turbine development began. Pyestock, a former golf course in a secluded wooded spot between Farnborough and Fleet was chosen, as the activities at the NGTE would be top secret and (one presumes) the surrounding woodland would dampen the phenomenal noise. Construction began in 1949, but the site was not as we know it. Instead of the massive test cells there today, testing was done on a much smaller scale in test "cubicles" inside buildings like the Plant House. When the possibility of supersonic jets arose, the site underwent a massive expansion to the north west, with the massive Air House and several huge test cells being built circa 1961.

For over 50 years Pyestock was at the forefront of gas turbine development and was almost certainly the largest site of its kind in the world. V bomber, Harrier and Tornado engines were all rigorously tested on site, the power of the air house allowed Concorde's engines to be tested at 2,000 mph, every single gas turbine installed in the Royal Navy were checked here, captured Soviet engines were discretely examined - and all this on terra firma, without a single plane taking off.

NGTE Pyestock closed down in 2000.

on with the pics

the air house

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cell 4 ....

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cell 3 west ....

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Bramshot cooling towers ....

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thanks for looking ... :D

 
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Wevsky

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Good little set of pict0rs young man..cell 4 really was like walking into aladdin's cave of industrial photogenic shiz,great day with some good friends :)

 

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Just seen this for some reason, great stuff visited here a few years ago, I loved the place so much fascinating stuff to see, you got to go back and see this, where they made the film.

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Aw wanted to see that film bit :(

Great photos, It was a great day out mate with great company, shall we return for a revisit???

 
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