The "building" you are in at 15:30 is a cooling tower. The water is piped to the top where it rains down over those black panels. The fan at the top pulls a draft through the side (The black panels) and up out the top which cools the water down. Then when the cooled water reaches the bottom (the 10' deep water you mentioned) it is pumped out through the facility to equipment to cool it. After it goes through the equipment and is hot water again, it is sent back to the cooling tower to repeat the process. Essentially it acts like a giant air conditioner in a way. Love your videos by the way. Look forward to seeing the next place you explore!
The before pictures helps to better understand what it was all about. Walking in there now, I wouldn't have any idea of what it was. Thanks Chris, and Jay.
I always worry about him exploring those lead paint infested buildings. Hopefully he won't ever be effected but my father only served 6 months on a Navy ship, the USS Comfort now retired because of lead paint, and still died over 50 yrs later of lung cancer
I'm extra thrilled about this video because it appears to be the same place my other favorite explorers, The Proper People, visited some time ago and I just love getting both perspectives with both your unique styles that make your videos so very appealing to me! And its not repetitive at all, because in this video I've seen a lot of details that werent in theirs - its just great! Thank you! 👍
I'm retired Navy and turned down a interview for a test cell supervisor in Lynn MA around 1998 99 with GE. The lack of job security concerned me. I envisioned this exact situation.
I'm fairly amazed at 1 - how Chris finds out about these places, and even more #2 - how he gains access. In my observations even the most pedestrian abandoned structures and properties are usually locked down pretty tight, and especially scientific or government facilities.
It's so neat how you go to the old footage you found to what is there now! Good Job Thanks to you, Urbex & Chill, & Abandoned Urbex Canada to show us such places! Keep safe You all!
Yep! I'm a factory electro-mechanical technician at the moment and Ingersoll Rand is the brand of all the compressors in the factory. The oldest compressor in the building reminds me of alot of the old machinery in these videos.
I'm a factory technician and at the timestamp 12:30 I recognized the company name Ingersoll Rand. They are the same brand of all the compressors in our building.
Correct name: Naval Air Engineering Center. test facility was opened WW-1 era to test the than aircraft piston engines, so one expect to see the old piston engine test beds and new (jet engines). Their was a Naval aircraft engine museum their at one time also. all that test equipment would have been top secret at one time!
That's cool, man. It's not the rocket test site, but the aircraft engine site? Wild. My dad would have loved seeing this. He probably did, back in the day, when working for Pratt & Whitney, though. (Maybe that's why he liked taking us for rides down into NJ?)
Only way to prevent a costly removal. Is to tear these buildings down right after they are closed down. But then again you guys would not have anything to explore. Nice episode as always!
I lived around the corner from this place. An old work bench at the house was made from shipping crates addressed here. Very cool tour and thank you for sharing!
The Freon is not pumped into the test cell inlet. The Freon is in a closed cooling system that cools the air (or cools water that cools the air) that is then sent to the test cell inlet. The twisted metal at 6:54 and later looks like it was chomped by one of those hydraulic jaws you see on excavators use in building demo. Great video.
This was one part of the guesses made about the process, R12 would not be released into the test engines, it would be used to cool radiators that would cool air that blows into the engines. At least I hope that is the case - if they directly released R12, we know where the hole in the ozone got started!
"When the US was in competition with the Soviet Union" Shows photo of Canadian Air Force jet... Oh well. Still love your channel, thanks so much for all the great content you share!
R-12. Considering when the facility was decommissioned, the Freon was no doubt all reclaimed as required by law. While it is no longer legal to make R-12 here, there is still a supply of recycled R0-12. The current price, for those licensed to buy it, would be a "King's Ransom" The R-12 used there was never introduced into the air stream, as it was always in a closed loop, just as it was in cars and so on. The only way it got loose would be in a leak or traumatic equipment failure. Since the gas won't support life, the system was no doubt carefully observed.
Came across your video by accident, but loved seeing that kind of stuff.. Wish I had some of those cannon plugs just left there to rot... Very cool place, thx for sharing...
@9:40 Those arent 'spray bars" they're tubes filled with water that the jet engine exhaust heats up, it boils water.. that is then used to create electricity and heating for the buildings. It's called "Heat recovery steam generator- HRSG" I work on them.
There's something distressing about these enormous facilities, representing hundreds of thousands or millions of man hours of planning and construction, just left to fester and waste. It recalls Solomon's refrain: "All is futility".
I love how you made this video more educational for your viewers to have an understanding of what you're exploring. Good find. It seems kinda haunted though. 👻🧟♂️
Knew an old fellow that worked there at one point in his life. Wish he was still around to show this video to, although I don't know how he'd react to seeing it's current state.
Interesting tour of this ole place. Yrs ago I went through a similar tour at Beale AF Base before it was dismantled. Not quite the same but similar. Enjoy your vids. ✌️😎
That's an interesting place for sure. I would like to walk around inside a place like this before I know what it was used for to see if I can guess what it used for lol 😁 I so wished I could go on adventures, too. 😒☹️
That second control room that was mostly intact, I bet you won't be "intact" after this video. You've basically just advertised this place to more scrappers. I would've grabbed a gauge or some small panel as a little ehh... souvenir.. before I left. Because I can bet you it surely won't be there for long after this video. So much old tech still left in there. Too bad some numbnuts had to destroy that old rotary phone and those CRT's. The phone would've made a great souvenir. Thanks for the video. Was a good watch. 👍
So Kool 👍🏼🖖🏼🍺🍺🖖🏼😉😢🥺🖖🏼 R-12 is a refrigerant which is used in the process of cooling the air it wasn’t introduced into the chamber. That’s the same stuff that was banned by the EPA because it was making holes in the AutoZone and used in Home refrigeration and air-conditioning
So at the very top where those cranes run are copper bars, probably 6 on each side that run the entire length of the building, that weigh about 1# per ft. Would be a hefty scrap fee.
Very interesting. I've never seen anything like this. I wonder why the government spends so much to build, maintain and utilize such places only to abandon them. Wouldn't it just need upgrades? I don't know I just don't get it. Could you imagine getting the metal out of there and how much that would be worth on the scrap market lol. Great video 👍🇨🇦
They have started demolition and they have security now and the building with the long hallway connecting buildings is on with just and open field there the building with tall polls on top is stripped to the skeleton so when I go I do at night I have to go past security and it’s just sad to see it almost gone
Many years ago way back in the day, when they used to test out jet engines, they actually used to launch a chicken into the intake simulating a bird strike just to see what kind of damage or catastrophic failure would take place. At least that's what I was told by a jet engine mechanic / instructor when I was going through A&P School.
They still do that, but then and now its a dead (sometimes frozen) chicken or turkey, they never did that with living animals. They also fire lumps of ice into engines and spray tons of water per second into them, because thats what can happen up there in flight. They also simulate what happens to an engine when a fan blade breaks off, to ensure the engine casing catches all the shrapnel forming and traveling at supersonic speed instead of destroying the wings and fuselage. Can find some stunning footage of these tests here on youtube.
I did not think that they would use a live chicken, but all the other testing, yep. I'm not in the A&P field other than taking classes. Had all my powerplant and half of my general classes. No airframe. That was on the civilian side. Military side I attended UH-1H Helicopter mechanic school. Still love avaition stuff though.
@@Ganiscol how do you know they didn’t use live chickens? The military and other corporations use live animals and do all kinds of terrible things to them throughout history and even today.
At around 9:00 I think that maybe a tornado came through. Sometimes they will flatten one area and leave some thing right next to it completely untouched. Thanks for a great explore of a sickening waste of our hard earned tax dollars (sorry about the rant).
Most likely had a workforce of thousands. You do wonder the percentages of those who worked there ended up with Asbestosis or related illnesses, especially those who were employed there during the 50's and 60's.
Mechanical runoff , ( oil antifreeze aircraft waste) yeah , you don't wanna fall in nor jump into that 10 ft pool of water . Could be hazardous to your life .
It shocks me that people use all these materials for something that only lasts a decade and then it’s all left there as pollution, thank you for the video l learn so much about human short falls, we as a race really do have to stop wasting and polluting the earth
Yessir ! We do need you to drop the mask down when you explain things. Your videos are AMAZING, young man, and you teach new things to this 68 year old (fart). Bless you and your work !!
The "building" you are in at 15:30 is a cooling tower. The water is piped to the top where it rains down over those black panels. The fan at the top pulls a draft through the side (The black panels) and up out the top which cools the water down. Then when the cooled water reaches the bottom (the 10' deep water you mentioned) it is pumped out through the facility to equipment to cool it. After it goes through the equipment and is hot water again, it is sent back to the cooling tower to repeat the process. Essentially it acts like a giant air conditioner in a way. Love your videos by the way. Look forward to seeing the next place you explore!
We have this type of running system and pratt and whitney east Hartford. It's pretty amazing
I've seen the place in videos many times but never with the before and after. That's add a whole new experience. Great work!!
The before pictures helps to better understand what it was all about. Walking in there now, I wouldn't have any idea of what it was. Thanks Chris, and Jay.
I use to play in that place as a kid all the time. So much fun. Eating paint chips and playing with the asbestos and breathing in mold. Loved it 😊
I always worry about him exploring those lead paint infested buildings. Hopefully he won't ever be effected but my father only served 6 months on a Navy ship, the USS Comfort now retired because of lead paint, and still died over 50 yrs later of lung cancer
Those vintage videos give so much context. Thanks for including them!
1:00 - that chainfall behind u, $$ , Man! lol
Can you imagine being a kid growning up in the neighborhood closest to that facility?
I wonder how many wear hearing aids now
Its silent i work at one it CT all you feel is ground vibration from 100feet away.
@@CplOreo ^
Love the contrast of the old promotional film and the current abandoned and stripped state! Very cool video!
I'm extra thrilled about this video because it appears to be the same place my other favorite explorers, The Proper People, visited some time ago and I just love getting both perspectives with both your unique styles that make your videos so very appealing to me! And its not repetitive at all, because in this video I've seen a lot of details that werent in theirs - its just great! Thank you! 👍
Jay might make a third perspective, I hope so.
@@JohnShinn6078 indeed, I'm subscribed to Jay as well 😄
@@JohnShinn6078 Can you tell the name of Jay's channel please?
@@timishere1925 Journey with Jay
I'm retired Navy and turned down a interview for a test cell supervisor in Lynn MA around 1998 99 with GE. The lack of job security concerned me. I envisioned this exact situation.
Always amazes me how quickly mother nature reclaims these places.🐻🤗👍
I'm fairly amazed at 1 - how Chris finds out about these places, and even more #2 - how he gains access. In my observations even the most pedestrian abandoned structures and properties are usually locked down pretty tight, and especially scientific or government facilities.
I think it’s interesting that he never gives any information or context to where these places are exactly, or how he gets in….
It's so neat how you go to the old footage you found to what is there now! Good Job Thanks to you, Urbex & Chill, & Abandoned Urbex Canada to show us such places! Keep safe You all!
At time stamp 12:30 Ingersoll Rand shows up. The company still exists in the Mid West Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and South Dakota.
Yep! I'm a factory electro-mechanical technician at the moment and Ingersoll Rand is the brand of all the compressors in the factory. The oldest compressor in the building reminds me of alot of the old machinery in these videos.
I'm a factory technician and at the timestamp 12:30 I recognized the company name Ingersoll Rand. They are the same brand of all the compressors in our building.
Awesome to compare the way they used to do things. The change in tech over the years is crazy.
Correct name: Naval Air Engineering Center. test facility was opened WW-1 era to test the than aircraft piston engines, so one expect to see the old piston engine test beds and new (jet engines). Their was a Naval aircraft engine museum their at one time also. all that test equipment would have been top secret at one time!
Would you happen to know the exact location? Cleaning messes like this up is what I do for a living.
Always happy when you post. You make it interesting. I almost always feel transported.
Great job!
That's cool, man. It's not the rocket test site, but the aircraft engine site? Wild.
My dad would have loved seeing this. He probably did, back in the day, when working for Pratt & Whitney, though. (Maybe that's why he liked taking us for rides down into NJ?)
excellent video work. You are so good at this! Thank you!!!
Wow I saw the "advent of modern computer system". Wondered what they looked like . Thanks for the commercial! A good bonus.
Only way to prevent a costly removal. Is to tear these buildings down right after they are closed down. But then again you guys would not have anything to explore. Nice episode as always!
I lived around the corner from this place. An old work bench at the house was made from shipping crates addressed here. Very cool tour and thank you for sharing!
Where in NJ is this?
@@completecareanimalhospital West Trenton, next to the airport. And it's nothing like Trenton.. I wish the GM site was still up to explore.
@@gabegall I’m from NJ, my mom used to work at the GM plant when I was little.
@@completecareanimalhospital there's always a jersey connection!
The Freon is not pumped into the test cell inlet. The Freon is in a closed cooling system that cools the air (or cools water that cools the air) that is then sent to the test cell inlet. The twisted metal at 6:54 and later looks like it was chomped by one of those hydraulic jaws you see on excavators use in building demo. Great video.
This was one part of the guesses made about the process, R12 would not be released into the test engines, it would be used to cool radiators that would cool air that blows into the engines. At least I hope that is the case - if they directly released R12, we know where the hole in the ozone got started!
My top favorite dynamic exploration team! Job well done gentlemen.
"When the US was in competition with the Soviet Union"
Shows photo of Canadian Air Force jet...
Oh well. Still love your channel, thanks so much for all the great content you share!
R-12. Considering when the facility was decommissioned, the Freon was no doubt all reclaimed as required by law. While it is no longer legal to make R-12 here, there is still a supply of recycled R0-12. The current price, for those licensed to buy it, would be a "King's Ransom"
The R-12 used there was never introduced into the air stream, as it was always in a closed loop, just as it was in cars and so on. The only way it got loose would be in a leak or traumatic equipment failure. Since the gas won't support life, the system was no doubt carefully observed.
Heyy no notifications for a longtime! Excited to watch!
Came across your video by accident, but loved seeing that kind of stuff.. Wish I had some of those cannon plugs just left there to rot... Very cool place, thx for sharing...
Great video as usual. Keep up your good work 💕
Interesting video, Chris! Glad someone like you had the motivation to visit such a risky site for the sake of us viewers...
Hey, I just discovered your channel and I love it I instantly subbed, gonna binge tonight. Much love bro.
@9:40 Those arent 'spray bars" they're tubes filled with water that the jet engine exhaust heats up, it boils water.. that is then used to create electricity and heating for the buildings. It's called "Heat recovery steam generator- HRSG"
I work on them.
There's something distressing about these enormous facilities, representing hundreds of thousands or millions of man hours of planning and construction, just left to fester and waste. It recalls Solomon's refrain: "All is futility".
I love how you made this video more educational for your viewers to have an understanding of what you're exploring. Good find. It seems kinda haunted though. 👻🧟♂️
Knew an old fellow that worked there at one point in his life. Wish he was still around to show this video to, although I don't know how he'd react to seeing it's current state.
Ok...?
I totally have been looking for this place for the longest time to film here. Where is this?
Interesting tour of this ole place. Yrs ago I went through a similar tour at Beale AF Base before it was dismantled. Not quite the same but similar. Enjoy your vids. ✌️😎
This is a really interesting explore, we did it a few months back. Huge!
Thanks for the interesting video Chris!
Underrated channel 🔥🔥
Fantastic video as always!
I guess the fuel tanks are underground . Great video
I love these videos! thank you!
Very interesting! I didn't even know these places existed and I'm 66 years young!!!! Pat
Wow, thats an incredible place. Be safe, don't worry about how you sound, protect your lungs. Thanks for the adventure 😃👍👍 Take Care
Very interested video. Never knew that kind of stuff!
That's amazing thank you for sharing this amazing videos......God bless you keep doing a good work
Is this at NAS Lakehurst?
That's an interesting place for sure. I would like to walk around inside a place like this before I know what it was used for to see if I can guess what it used for lol 😁 I so wished I could go on adventures, too. 😒☹️
16:00 - Evaporative Cooling towers
👍👍 Awesome Video
He visiting abandoned places while I can barely step out of my house for 2 seconds
That second control room that was mostly intact, I bet you won't be "intact" after this video. You've basically just advertised this place to more scrappers.
I would've grabbed a gauge or some small panel as a little ehh... souvenir.. before I left. Because I can bet you it surely won't be there for long after this video. So much old tech still left in there. Too bad some numbnuts had to destroy that old rotary phone and those CRT's. The phone would've made a great souvenir.
Thanks for the video. Was a good watch. 👍
Love ur vids man
This kid has nerves of steel.
You have the best content
So my question is, how do you find these places. I live in PA and most places are private property or can’t find
I could recommend a place you could explore, there is a road called the tri borough road in Chatham nj, which you could explore
We have these in the Air Force, cool places.
So
Kool 👍🏼🖖🏼🍺🍺🖖🏼😉😢🥺🖖🏼
R-12 is a refrigerant which is used in the process of cooling the air it wasn’t introduced into the chamber. That’s the same stuff that was banned by the EPA because it was making holes in the AutoZone and used in Home refrigeration and air-conditioning
😎 great job guys
You should check out Eureka Springs Arkansas, very historical.
Wow very interesting place!
I wondered if you ever visited Highfields outside of Hopewell NJ. The Lindbergh baby kidnapping house? Might be cool story to do.
Gonna look into this
Your videos are excellent and informative. How do you get permission to get into these places you video?
Keep up the good work!
You always show us such intresting places. Thank you for that. Btw, you're gorgeous! :)
You're in New Jersey? Hope you had all your shots...
So at the very top where those cranes run are copper bars, probably 6 on each side that run the entire length of the building, that weigh about 1# per ft. Would be a hefty scrap fee.
When are you going to spend a year checking all the abandoned places in Alaska?
Very interesting. I've never seen anything like this. I wonder why the government spends so much to build, maintain and utilize such places only to abandon them. Wouldn't it just need upgrades? I don't know I just don't get it. Could you imagine getting the metal out of there and how much that would be worth on the scrap market lol. Great video 👍🇨🇦
I don't get it either and then to leave it as a giant toxic waste dump is unbelievable(or not).
They have started demolition and they have security now and the building with the long hallway connecting buildings is on with just and open field there the building with tall polls on top is stripped to the skeleton so when I go I do at night I have to go past security and it’s just sad to see it almost gone
That cooling tower still looks useable
Many years ago way back in the day, when they used to test out jet engines, they actually used to launch a chicken into the intake simulating a bird strike just to see what kind of damage or catastrophic failure would take place. At least that's what I was told by a jet engine mechanic / instructor when I was going through A&P School.
They still do that, but then and now its a dead (sometimes frozen) chicken or turkey, they never did that with living animals. They also fire lumps of ice into engines and spray tons of water per second into them, because thats what can happen up there in flight. They also simulate what happens to an engine when a fan blade breaks off, to ensure the engine casing catches all the shrapnel forming and traveling at supersonic speed instead of destroying the wings and fuselage. Can find some stunning footage of these tests here on youtube.
I did not think that they would use a live chicken, but all the other testing, yep. I'm not in the A&P field other than taking classes. Had all my powerplant and half of my general classes. No airframe. That was on the civilian side. Military side I attended UH-1H Helicopter mechanic school. Still love avaition stuff though.
@@Ganiscol how do you know they didn’t use live chickens? The military and other corporations use live animals and do all kinds of terrible things to them throughout history and even today.
Awesome Video
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I wonder if that was a nerva site?
How did you not press that trapped button?
4:23 "In competition with the Soviet Union" - shows a Canadian Avro Arrow! :-D
They're building on nearly every empty piece of land where I live. This would NOT be standing. But I guessed right about this be a toxic site.
Amazing place!
9:21 looks like someone used one of those giant shears they bolt to an excavator.
So where at in Jersey is this place?
Trenton, N.J. (Area code 609 gives it away)
another good one
I work in a place alot like this in east Hartford ct
This facility was so loud they had to close it and build new site in New Mexico desert where there are no neighbors to bother
What is the name of Jay's channel?
journey_with_jay
Very cool ✌🏼😊
7:45 They're waiting for you Gordon. In the teST chamber.
At around 9:00 I think that maybe a tornado came through. Sometimes they will flatten one area and leave some thing right next to it completely untouched. Thanks for a great explore of a sickening waste of our hard earned tax dollars (sorry about the rant).
Chris, Jay, I'm impressed.
I sometimes worry yous may run out of places to show, Thanks & check the comment to Ganiscol.
Most likely had a workforce of thousands. You do wonder the percentages of those who worked there ended up with Asbestosis or related illnesses, especially those who were employed there during the 50's and 60's.
I never realized how many places in America is bandond 😮
Mechanical runoff , ( oil antifreeze aircraft waste) yeah , you don't wanna fall in nor jump into that 10 ft pool of water . Could be hazardous to your life .
How come when a factory from New Jersey closes and moves out they leave a huge toxic looking mess behind.look at that place.
Cool place .. seen another video by Proper People.
It shocks me that people use all these materials for something that only lasts a decade and then it’s all left there as pollution, thank you for the video l learn so much about human short falls, we as a race really do have to stop wasting and polluting the earth
Located in Trenton, N.J.
3:50 Sees a twin Teleporter prototype. Talks about Cold War.
I wonder if those kids from that rocket iron movie worked there or not
Yessir ! We do need you to drop the mask down when you explain things. Your videos are AMAZING, young man, and you teach new things to this 68 year old (fart). Bless you and your work !!