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The Churchville Test Area is a test track with hills that provide steep natural grades and tight turns to stress engines, drivetrains, and suspensions for army vehicles, including M1 Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and Humvees.
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Churchville and Test
Other parts of APG not attached to the main installation include the Churchville Test Area in Harford County, and the Carroll Island and Graces Quarters in Baltimore County, Maryland.
Churchville and is
Churchville is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Churchville and for
The opportunity for advancement was dealt another blow when the Credit Valley Railway came to Dixie, Streetsville, Meadowvale and Churchville in 1879.
In 1855 Hotchkiss and his brother Nelson founded the Loch Willow Academy school for boys in Churchville, Virginia.
In the 2002 elections Kreamer ran for District E of the Harford County Council to represent Aberdeen, Churchville, Hickory and Fountain Green.
Churchville and army
Jackson's army consisted of the 1st Georgia Infantry and 12th Georgia Infantry, under command of Colonel Edward Johnson ; the 23rd Virginia Infantry, 44th Virginia Infantry and a battalion of the 25th Virginia Infantry, commanded by Colonel William B. Taliaferro ; 3rd Arkansas Infantry, 31st Virginia Infantry, and Lieutenant Colonel Hansbrough's battalion, under command of Colonel Albert Rust ; Anderson's and Shumaker's Batteries, and a part of the Churchville Cavalry under Captain Sterrett.
Churchville and .
In 1806, Samuel Church purchased the land that was to become Churchville in what was known at the time as West Pultney.
On 18 November 1971, the body of Carmen Colon, an Alphabet murders victim, was found near Churchville.
Test and Area
Development of such engines started under the aegis of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1955 as Project Rover, with work on a suitable reactor starting at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Area 25 in the Nevada Test Site.
Groom Lake is a salt flat in Nevada used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport ( KXTA ) on the north of the Area 51 USAF military installation.
In 1995 and 1997, plutonium-contaminated soil from " Double Tracks " and " Clean Slate 1 " of Operation Roller Coaster ( 1963 ) was picked up from the Tonopah Test Range and brought to the Area 3 Radioactive Waste Management Site as a first step in eventually returning Tonopah Test Range to an environmentally neutral state.
A number of proof-of-concept cratering blasts were conducted ; including the Buggy shot of 5 1-Kt-devices for a channel / trench in Area 21 and the largest being 104 kiloton ( 435 terajoule ) on July 6, 1962 at the north end of Yucca Flats, within the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site ( NTS ) in southern Nevada.
Tonopah Test Range ( TTR ), also known as Area 52, is a restricted military installation located about southeast of Tonopah, Nevada.
After the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty banned open-air nuclear testing, the tower was dismantled and despite its immense size moved from its original location to Jackass Flats in Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site, where it was used for Operation HENRE ( High Energy Neutron Reactions Experiment ), a series of radiation measurement experiments using a small linear accelerator to provide neutrons.
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