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Credit BG. View looking northeast at southwestern side of Test Stand "D" complex. Test Stand "D" workshop (Building 4222/E-23) is at left; shed to its immediate right is an entrance to underground tunnel system which interconnects all test stands. To the right of Test Stand "D" tower are four Clayton water-tube flash boilers once used in the Steam Generator Plant 4280/E-81 to power the vacuum ejector system at "D" and "C" stands. A corner of 4280/E-81 appears behind the boilers. Boilers were removed as part of stand dismantling program. The Dv (vertical vacuum) Test Cell is located in the Test Stand "D" tower, behind the sunscreen on the west side. The top of the tower contains a hoist for lifting or lowering rocket engines into the Dv Cell. Other equipment mounted in the tower is part of the steam-driven vacuum ejector system - Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Test Stand D, Edwards Air Force Base, Boron, Kern County, CA
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