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  • AFMC to observe American Heart Month in February

    February is American Heart Month and a good time to educate ourselves on how to prevent heart disease. Cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, is the number one cause of death for men and women in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control, every 25 seconds an

  • Largest engine undergoing testing at AEDC's C-2 test cell

    A test recently conducted in AEDC's Aeropropulsion Systems Test Facility C2 test cell on a Rolls-Royce Trent XWB (Extra Wide Body) engine set a new record at the world's largest and most advanced flight simulation facilities located in middle Tennessee.According to Rolls-Royce officials and those

  • Local engineering organizations to host annual National Engineer Week events

    This year's celebration of National Engineers' Week will take place Feb. 21-23. Local area activities will include a student design competition, an engineer-for-a-day program and a banquet. These activities are sponsored by the Tullahoma chapter of the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers

  • Team at Tunnel 9 tackles NASA heat shield test

    In May 2011, NASA formally announced that the Orion crew capsule is the spacecraft that will carry humans back into deep space.Before Orion is ready for crewed missions to an asteroid and Mars, aerothermal testing is being conducted at AEDC's Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 on a 4-percent scale model of

  • Tunnel 9's Susan Drinnon enjoys helping others

    "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." William Shakespeare Whether at work or afterwards, a consistent theme in Susan Drinnon's life is the pleasure she derives from helping others.Drinnon, a computer scientist/system administrator for AEDC's Tunnel 9

  • AEDC’s 2011 economic impact exceeds $630 million

    Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) economic impact - which includes AEDC and its remote operating locations - the Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 at White Oak in Silver Spring, Md., and the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex at Moffett Field, Calif. - was $633.8 million for fiscal 2011.

  • Former Angel Tree recipient paying it forward

    The Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Angel Tree program was a great success again this past Christmas, with approximately 160 employees providing gifts for 179 disadvantaged mid-state children.One of the AEDC volunteers, Art Walker, an Air Force Investments project manager, took a

  • U.S. Senate confirms AEDC commander for brigadier general appointment

    The Air Force announced Dec. 19 that the U.S. Senate has confirmed AEDC Commander Col. Michael T. Brewer for appointment to the grade of brigadier general.Colonel Brewer was one of four Air Force Materiel Command colonels nominated by the President to the Senate for appointment to the grade of

  • Visitors Center closing for the holidays

    The Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Visitors Center will be closed in observance of the Christmas and New Year holiday break from 3:30 p.m. Dec. 23 through Jan 2. The Visitors Center will reopen at 6:30 a.m. Jan. 3.

  • Former AEDC pilot reflects on a storied military career

    As the number of surviving World War II veterans continues to decline, the opportunity to record their wartime experiences is slipping away.One example is a former active duty Air Force AEDC employee named Hugh Killingsworth, who flew missions over "The Hump" during World War II as an Army Air Corps