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  • AEDC's Charlie Smith helps with disaster in the Gulf

    Charlie Smith, an Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) project engineer for aircraft systems in AEDC's Propulsion Wind Tunnel and retired 19-year command pilot with Nashville's 118th Airlift Wing, recently donned his flight gear to help assess the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Smith, who has

  • AEDC Firefighters remember 9/11 in Stair Climb

    Sept. 11, 2001 is a date most Americans will never forget, and some Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) firefighters are doing their part to keep its memory alive.Three hundred forty-three firefighters from around the area will come together Sept. 11 to honor the firefighters who lost their

  • Employee believer in seat belts, AEDC "family"

    Charles Conry says he is proof that seat belts save lives. Conry, store keeper at Hazardous Materials for ATA, says the number of fellow AEDC employees who showed up at the hospital or called following his recent automobile accident is also proof that people on base are really like family.The

  • Exhibit highlights AEDC, NASA cooperation

    From the beginnings of the American space program and Project Mercury, to the Apollo moon missions, to the space shuttles and potential future space projects, Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and NASA have cooperated to assure the readiness of space vehicles.Those collaborative efforts

  • Education fair brings new opportunities to work force

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) hosted this year's third annual education fair at the Arnold Lakeside Center (ALC).Around 100 employees and their families came out to this year's event and met with representatives from 23 colleges and universities in Tennessee, Alabama and throughout

  • Arnold Engineering Development Center offers tours

    With the start of school just around the corner, AEDC officials are encouraging people around the community and across the country to visit Arnold Air Force Base.As the world's most advanced and largest complex of flight simulation test facilities, AEDC has hosted distinguished visitors from all

  • AEDC volunteers go above and beyond call in tax help

    Many Air Force personnel are aware that Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) is available on base for those who qualify, headquartered in the Staff Judge Advocate's (SJA) office. But SJA Maj. Mitzi Weems is extremely proud of the extra work AEDC's VITA volunteers have done off base, using their

  • AEDC implements night ops for fourth year to lower costs

    AEDC has significantly lowered the cost to the customer since the organization's leadership first implemented a night operations testing schedule for the summer months in 2007. "Five weeks into it [this year] we've saved our customers slightly more than $1 million in energy costs," said Gary Bryant,

  • Scale-tipping 44,000 hp motor returns to AEDC

    Crane operators and riggers recently offloaded a 44,000 horsepower, 80-ton exhaust plant drive motor at AEDC's C-Plant exhauster. C-Plant consists of an airside and an exhaust side complex. Collectively, the plant is a pressure, temperature and humidity conditioning facility that supplies air to