The Gorgon missile family was a series of experimental air-to-air, air-to-surface, and surface-to-surface missiles developed by the United States Navy's Naval Aircraft Modification Unit between 1943 and 1953. The immaturity of the technology involved meant that none of the Gorgon missiles achieved operational service, however they were extensively used in the development of guided missile controls and guidance technologies.
PTV-N-2 Gorgon IV in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
A Gorgon IIA in 1947
A TD2N-1 (Gorgon IIIB) target drone
The Gorgon IIIC
Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster
Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster was a U.S. Navy military installation located in Warminster, Pennsylvania and Ivyland, Pennsylvania. For most of its existence (1949–1993), the base was known as the Naval Air Development Center (NADC) Warminster, but it has also been referred to as Johnsville Naval Air Development Center, NADC Johnsville or simply, Johnsville.
Aerial view of the NADC in the early 1970s
The former runway of Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster is now part of Warminster Community Park and contains basketball courts and a children's area called Safety Town
U.S. astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. prepares to enter the gondola of the human centrifuge at Johnsville in 1960.
