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What Are These Things At Lakehurst NAS

RampRat74 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1457 posts, RR: 2
Posted (8 years 1 month 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 7591 times:

What are the five long runway length things in the pics?

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Contact_tower From Norway, joined Sep 2001, 536 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 4 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 7559 times:

The ones arranged in a fan like shape are test tracks (rails) for high speed testing i belive. The Runway SW of them is a test facility for catapults and arrestors if I recall correctly.

SATL382G From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 month 4 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 7558 times:

Here's the Lakehurst web site. The video mid page has some interesting clips on the test track.

http://www.lakehurst.navy.mil

STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16316 posts, RR: 52
Reply 3, posted (8 years 1 month 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 7464 times:

Those are the test tracks which they rocket aicraft mock ups down a track.

http://www.lakehurst.navy.mil/nlweb/images/pic23.gif

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STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16316 posts, RR: 52
Reply 4, posted (8 years 1 month 4 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 7448 times:

Here's some new things they are working on at the Jet car track at NAES Lakehurst.

http://www.dcmilitary.com/navy/tester/10_08/national_news/33488-1.html

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RampRat74 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1457 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (8 years 1 month 4 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 7428 times:

The large round area in the grass. Is that where the Hindenburg was destroyed?

STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16316 posts, RR: 52
Reply 6, posted (8 years 1 month 4 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 7423 times:

Quoting RampRat74 (Reply 5):
The large round area in the grass. Is that where the Hindenburg was destroyed?

No that's the drop zone aircraft from McGuire, Willow Grove etc.. make practice air drops.

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Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7338 posts, RR: 52
Reply 7, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 7025 times:

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Those are assembly's for the steam catapult tests. NATC Lakehurst is home to the development the Steam Cats and arresting gears for the aircraft carriers. Lakehurst is where the have ABE A and C school and also for the Navy's 3M Maintnence Tech School for shipboard maintnence training.

Quoting STT757 (Reply 6):
No that's the drop zone aircraft from McGuire, Willow Grove etc.. make practice air drops

True, but the large area was where they had the original airship towers. The area around the airstrip was a large dormant plain back then and it could've been ground zero where the Hindenburg fell. I mean the dirigible was a colossal, airborne Torpedo. Lakehurst's runways were rebuilt and airfield configurations were changed in the early mid-50's, so it's a different airfield then the original.

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STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16316 posts, RR: 52
Reply 8, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 6847 times:

Close up of the jetcar track

http://www.lakehurst.navy.mil/nlweb/jetcar.gif

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J_Hallgren From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1507 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 6807 times:

I've been wondering about this for MANY years! thanks for finally answering this unresolved question! I used to see it from way up when flying TPA-BOS etc...and figured it was Lakehurst but never knew about the test tracks...and is it optical illusion that pix in reply 3 looks to be parallel tracks but from air, they fan out?

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DL021 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 11435 posts, RR: 81
Reply 10, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 6789 times:

THey are not exactly parallel. They do move out at an angle from each other.

As far as the Hindenburg goes, it went down a few hundred yards from the front of Hangar 1, the dirigible hangar, and the spot is marked by a small steel rod placed in the ground with a representation of a Zeppelin on top. They used to offer tours of the base, but I believe that has been suspended lately.

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