Category:Trestle (Kirtland Air Force Base)
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US Air Force electromagnetic pulse generation and testing apparatus in use from 1972-1980 at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, US  | |||||
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English: Trestle (or the Trestle) is a structure in the Sandia Base area of Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, USA. It has no metal parts, and is the largest all-wood-and-glue laminated structure in the world. It used a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse to simulate the electromagnetic effects of nuclear weapons on aircraft and rockets without the need to use an actual high-altitude nuclear explosion. Formally known as the ATLAS-I (Air Force Weapons Lab Transmission-Line Aircraft Simulator), it was built and put into operation in the late 1970s, and deactivated in 1991, but the structure remains.
Media in category "Trestle (Kirtland Air Force Base)"
The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total.
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EMP simplator Krtland AFB New Mexico.jpg 729 × 562; 135 KB
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Trestle 0001 01.jpg 2,962 × 2,363; 2.75 MB
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Trestle 0001 02.jpg 2,951 × 2,335; 3.39 MB
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Trestle 0001 03.jpg 2,821 × 2,300; 2.22 MB
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Categories:
- 1970s architecture in New Mexico
- 1970s establishments in the United States
- 1991 disestablishments
- Abandoned buildings in New Mexico
- Aerospace testing
- Electrical testing
- Electromagnetic compatibility
- Electromagnetic pulse
- Government buildings in New Mexico
- Sandia New Mexico
- Military structures in New Mexico
- Wooden structures in New Mexico