Drexelbrook Catering is excited to be the exclusive Caterer at "The Coolest Venue, Anywhere" As deemed by one of our colleague's in the Entertainment Business. http://www.cuttingedgedjs.com/blog/2012/02/13/the-fuge-the-coolest-new-event-venue-ever/
Thank You Craig Sumsky for that great blog.
What makes this truly one of a kind venue so special is a combination of history "Every Man who Walked On The Moon, Went Here First" and Modern Day lighting, A/V & Tech. From you moment you walk into the almost 13,000 square foot main space you are captivated by the history and grand size of this "American Made" marvel.
It was once the home of the worlds largest dynamic flight simulator and centrifuge. With its 16,000 HP motor, over 1,000,000 Torque capability this centrifuge trained all the early space pioneers up until 1995. The worlds record 32 plus G Force was set here.
In 2012 the room now serves as an incredible party and event space featuring two 38 foot video screens, seating for over 700 with dance floor, on-site parking, and amazing possibilities.
This venue is the perfect setting for an incredible Mitzvah and is the current location for the filming of Dancin On Air http://www.myphl17.com/wphl-dancin-on-air-returns-to-phl17-20120306,0,7037626.story & Dancin On Air/DancePartyUSA http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001360070396
In addition the venue is ideal for any corporate or social events and allows the guests to see some of what truly made this country great "American Design, Construction & Technology"
Drexelbrook Catering would love to arrange a site visit & tour to this truly out of this world venue.
http://www.rentthefuge.com/eventcenter/Welcome.html Contact Phyllis Jablonowski at 215-589-0611 or at info@rentthefuge.com. You can also contact Gene Blum at Gene@drexelbrookcatering.com
We have recently added Feast Your Eyes Catering & Barclay Catering to our list as the Kosher Providers and our preferred vendor list are truly the best at making once in a lifetime and out of this world events come to life. We also feature a full in-house A/V team and work with Brian Toner an the team from Eventions Productions for outside A/V. The addition of floor to ceiling draping has added some beautiful soft touches and their are many additional upgrades under way.
The History of this truly unique venue is:
From the mid 1940's through
1996 the US Navy operated 31 development laboratories in Warminster,
Pennsylvania. These labs worked on military applications of technologies that we
all take for granted today; including flight data recorder or "black box"
technology, GPS and photosensitive lenses, generating over 50 patents annually.
Among the labs at the Johnsville Naval Air Development Center (NADC) was the
Aviation Medical Acceleration Laboratory (AMAL) the centerpiece of which was the
largest and most powerful human centrifuge that the world has ever seen.
A centrifuge is a machine that swings a capsule or "gondola" around in a circle on the end of a long arm. The purpose is to simulate gravitational forces, or "Gs", on a test subject. The "G load" (often expressed as multiples of ordinary earth gravity) is a function of the speed at which the centrifuge spins and the length of the arm on which the gondola is mounted.
When it began operations in 1949 the Johnsville Centrifuge was an engineering marvel of its day. Housed in a 125 foot diameter room and driven by a 180 ton, 4000 horsepower GE motor with a peak burst output of 16,000 horsepower, the gondola at the end of the 50 foot arm of the centrifuge could accelerate from a standstill to 178 MPH in less than 7 seconds and generate up to 40 Gs. The performance was staggering considering that the fastest car in the Indianapolis 500 that year only reached a top speed just short of 133 MPH. The motor was so powerful and the centrifuge generated such force that the motor had to be bolted directly into the bedrock and the local power company had to be notified when the centrifuge was going to be run. Just as amazing is the fact that the combined 80 ton arm and counterweight is so well balanced that it can be moved by hand.
The centrifuge was built to test the limits of the human body relative to the high acceleration generated by the post-WWII fighter jets. Until then, fighter planes were driven by traditional propeller engines. Jet engines meant that planes could accelerate faster during take off and fly faster during evasive maneuvers like quick turns, generating high G loads. One of the dangers of the new jet planes was that the high G's generated during climbs and steeply banked turns, draw the blood out of the pilot's brain causing G-LOC, or Gravity induced Loss of Consciousness. Researchers used the Johnsville Centrifuge to experiment with different equipment and techniques to mitigate the effects of these G forces. In a milestone experiment in 1958, researcher R. Flanagan Gray climbed into the "iron maiden"; a human shaped capsule that was then filled with water, and withstood 31.25 Gs for a full 5 seconds, a human endurance record that stands to this day.
Initially, the Johnsville Centrifuge was only capable of running pre-programmed or "closed loop" profiles. The test subject had no control over the speed or acceleration of the centrifuge. By 1959 it was connected to the then emerging computer technology to become the world's first dynamic flight simulator, capable of changing speed and attitude based on the inputs of the subject. This development allowed pilots to feel how a plane would react based on how they handled the controls, permitting them to safely gain valuable experience in a controlled environment.
In the 1950s America was deep in the throes of the Cold War. School children were learning to "duck and cover" and a satellite named Sputnik was beeping its way around the earth. Into this context, the US manned space program was launched. The engineers and scientists knew that the rockets used to propel spacecraft into orbit and beyond would subject America's pioneering astronauts to high Gs. Knowing that, there was no better place to train America's first astronauts than Johnsville
A centrifuge is a machine that swings a capsule or "gondola" around in a circle on the end of a long arm. The purpose is to simulate gravitational forces, or "Gs", on a test subject. The "G load" (often expressed as multiples of ordinary earth gravity) is a function of the speed at which the centrifuge spins and the length of the arm on which the gondola is mounted.
When it began operations in 1949 the Johnsville Centrifuge was an engineering marvel of its day. Housed in a 125 foot diameter room and driven by a 180 ton, 4000 horsepower GE motor with a peak burst output of 16,000 horsepower, the gondola at the end of the 50 foot arm of the centrifuge could accelerate from a standstill to 178 MPH in less than 7 seconds and generate up to 40 Gs. The performance was staggering considering that the fastest car in the Indianapolis 500 that year only reached a top speed just short of 133 MPH. The motor was so powerful and the centrifuge generated such force that the motor had to be bolted directly into the bedrock and the local power company had to be notified when the centrifuge was going to be run. Just as amazing is the fact that the combined 80 ton arm and counterweight is so well balanced that it can be moved by hand.
The centrifuge was built to test the limits of the human body relative to the high acceleration generated by the post-WWII fighter jets. Until then, fighter planes were driven by traditional propeller engines. Jet engines meant that planes could accelerate faster during take off and fly faster during evasive maneuvers like quick turns, generating high G loads. One of the dangers of the new jet planes was that the high G's generated during climbs and steeply banked turns, draw the blood out of the pilot's brain causing G-LOC, or Gravity induced Loss of Consciousness. Researchers used the Johnsville Centrifuge to experiment with different equipment and techniques to mitigate the effects of these G forces. In a milestone experiment in 1958, researcher R. Flanagan Gray climbed into the "iron maiden"; a human shaped capsule that was then filled with water, and withstood 31.25 Gs for a full 5 seconds, a human endurance record that stands to this day.
Initially, the Johnsville Centrifuge was only capable of running pre-programmed or "closed loop" profiles. The test subject had no control over the speed or acceleration of the centrifuge. By 1959 it was connected to the then emerging computer technology to become the world's first dynamic flight simulator, capable of changing speed and attitude based on the inputs of the subject. This development allowed pilots to feel how a plane would react based on how they handled the controls, permitting them to safely gain valuable experience in a controlled environment.
In the 1950s America was deep in the throes of the Cold War. School children were learning to "duck and cover" and a satellite named Sputnik was beeping its way around the earth. Into this context, the US manned space program was launched. The engineers and scientists knew that the rockets used to propel spacecraft into orbit and beyond would subject America's pioneering astronauts to high Gs. Knowing that, there was no better place to train America's first astronauts than Johnsville
So it was, in August of 1959 that the Mercury Seven
came to Johnsville to begin their centrifuge training. M. Scott Carpenter,
Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton, L. Gordon Cooper, Walter M. Schirra, Alan B.
Sheppard, Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, and John H. Glenn made the trip to Bucks
County to train on what John Glenn called the "dreaded" and "sadistic"
Johnsville Centrifuge. Throughout the 60's the space program progressed as the
United States came ever closer to the goal of "landing a man on the moon and
retuning him safely to the Earth". Eventually, all of America's early
astronauts, including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin received centrifuge
training at Johnsville. By the end of 1972, the Apollo program was winding down
but the Johnsville Centrifuge continued to be of service, training Space Shuttle
astronauts and F-14 pilots into the 80's. To a man, the astronauts credit their
centrifuge training as invaluable in preparing them for the bodily rigors of the
high G forces encountered during the lift off and re-entry phases of their space
flights. By the 1990s operations at the Centrifuge were largely contracted out;
with the last run occurring in 2005
Here is an incredible video of the Centrifuge in use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp1-aF0KHEc
Come see why "The Fuge" Is the regions coolest venue and speak to us about how Drexelbrook Catering can create an out of the world event for you.
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