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  • Dr. David Elrod to be honored as an AEDC Fellow

    Two new Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Fellows will be inducted June 25 at the annual Fellows banquet. One of the the new Fellows is Dr. David Elrod. Dr. Elrod joins 56 others selected for this honor since the program began in 1989.Nominated by their peers, Dr. Elrod has been cited for

  • Arnold leads the way in active shooter response training

    This month, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) police security forces/police hosted a three-day course to train Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and area law enforcement officers in active shooter response tactics at the instructor level. Two National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA)

  • Albert earns medal for reactivation efforts of Air Force facility

    Former Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Vice Commander (Ret.) Col. Vince Albert earned a NASA medal for his leadership in the reactivation of the National Full-scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) in Moffett Field, Calif.In 2005, Albert had the opportunity

  • AEDC partners with Edwards to test legacy jet

    A long-standing collaboration between the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) at Edwards AFB and Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) through its Technology and Analysis Program is helping propulsion integration engineers quantify performance improvements of an updated version of a legacy

  • Successful first flight of F-35B Lightning II is welcome news at Arnold

    Today's successful completion of the first flight of the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) version of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. in Fort Worth, Texas, resonated with engineers at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center

  • Utah native fulfills Air Force deployment duty; satisfies career goals

    Utah native Lt. Col. Jay "Chris" Sorensen, former deputy director of the 704th Communications Squadron at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) in Tullahoma, Tenn., didn't feel his military career would be complete unless he served his time in the war zone.Marking his

  • U.S. Sen. Bob Corker visits AEDC test facilities

    United States Sen. Bob Corker visited the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in Coffee and Franklin counties Monday. Of particular interest to the senator was the center's involvement in testing military jet engines under flight conditions using synthetic fuels. The Air

  • AEDC Honor Guard available for flag retirement services

    Two Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Air Force Honor Guard members, salute an American flag while it burns during a flag retirement ceremony held at Camp Arrowhead, a Boy Scout camp on the base near Woods Reservoir. One of the honor guard's duties is to destroy unserviceable flags in a

  • Arnold munitions expert serves country on two fronts

    In 1992, Navy recruiters had Mike Brumer firmly in their sites, or so they thought. The young man liked what he heard and found the prospect of going into the specialized nuclear technical field aboard submarines hard to resist."I qualified for the nuclear program and that looked really appetizing,"

  • John C. "Jack" Marshall relives early AEDC days

    Jack Marshall can remember spending his childhood craning his neck to watch airplanes flying over his house near Detroit, Mich., on their way to the major cities in the Eastern U.S. Coupled with his intense joy at taking things apart just to see how they worked and then trying to put them back