That Whirlygig Thing Traditional Cache

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As there's been no response to my earlier note, I am forced to archive this listing.

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Hidden : 10/2/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Johnsville Centrifuge
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***WASP ALERT*** be careful.
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This is the 10th in a series of caches to commemorate our towns 300th Anniversary: 1711-2011. The Tricentennial Committee sponsored a Township wide geocache hunt which was held in May 2011. Warminster Township has asked to have a geocache event in Fall 2012 in conjunction with planting another 300 trees in the Warminster Community Park - stay tuned.
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Restrictions
Please DO NOT enter the site after dark.
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Short History of the Area\'
See video on this page of the centrifuge.
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The museum is dedicated to preserving the Johnsville Centrifuge and its contribution to the US Space Program as well as the memory of the Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville where the US Navy’s research laboratories helped win the Cold War.

The museum building, also known as the Dynamic Flight Simulator Building, Human Centrifuge Building, or Building 70, is a remnant of the former Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Warminster which closed in 1996.
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The site began as farmland acquired by the Brewster Aircraft Company in 1939. By 1941 a factory was in operation on the site building their legacy Buffalo Fighters and Buccaneer Dive Bombers intended for use by the Navy during WWII. The Navy later seized operation of the company after Brewster experienced difficulties with production. When problems continued, the Navy acquired the property outright and converted it for use by the Naval Aircraft Modification Unit (NAMU) a division of the Naval Aircraft Factory.
When the war ended the production shops were converted to research laboratories studying pilotless aircraft, electronics, and weapons, and the Naval Air Station Johnsville (NADS) was born.
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Over the ensuing years, changes in association with addition of new missions resulted in renaming the site to the Naval Air Development Center (NADC) Johnsville and eventually to the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Warminster. More than 31 laboratories would call Warminster home including those studying navigation, submarine detection, aerospace materials, aircraft structures, pilot’s equipment, computers, airborne photography and aircraft instrumentation, etc…
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Construction of the human centrifuge building began in 1947 was complete by 1949 and initiated operations to research the limits of human tolerance for “G” forces. By the late 1950s it was in use to train astronauts for the US Space Program. It continued to operate for a variety of projects under Navy control until 1996 then under contract until 2004 when operations ceased altogether.
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After the closure of the base and disposition of its assets, the building was sold for private development. Extensive work, including planning for the removal of the centrifuge, was undertaken to convert the building to commercial office space. While under renovation new plans were developed to use portions of the space for a museum and renovations were halted in those areas pending further study.
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The museum was formally created in July 2008 with the establishment of The Johnsville Centrifuge and Science Museum Inc. to provide governance, funding and oversight.
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To learn more about the history of NADC, visit
(visit link)
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Additional Information
The white radar dome to the right is the former ejection seat test apparatus. It has Pennsylvania Historical status as does the Centrifuge. The radar dome is home of the Channel 6 doppler radar.
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The building to the right of the radar dome is a small treatment plant which the Warminster Municipal Authority acquired from the Navy, and it was totally rebuilt.
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The building at the end is the new Bucks County Mourge and Forensics Center.
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Geocache
The object is a nano cache. Bring a pen/pencil.
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There are plenty of parking spaces to park off street. It should be a very easy C&D.
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Good Luck.
Rich / AG3L
Warminster Tricentennial Committee

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