Baum’s EMP simulator testing a B-1B Bomber on
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rtland Air Force Base in 1989
- a wooden structure, two football fields long, over an 20-acre, bowl-shaped arroyo deep inside Kirtland Air Force Base.
Erected between 1972 and 1980 at a cost of $60 million, he nicknamed it “the trestle” because he said it was inspired by a railroad bridge.
Photo Courtesy of the United States Air Force
In Memoriam: Carl Baum, trestle-maker
