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  • AEDC test teams prep F-35 for first external weapons release

    Testing in the aerodynamic wind tunnels at AEDC helped prepare the Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for its first external weapons release.During a flight completed by the F-35 Patuxent River Integrated Task Force in September, four 500-pound Guided Bomb Unit-12 laser-guided inert bombs

  • AEDC completes project, saving money for Life Cycle Management Center

    AEDC engineers successfully performed the reverse engineering of a TF34 50-10000 Quick Engine Change kit for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, saving the center thousands of dollars on the task.This control and adaptor kit enables the A-10 Thunderbolt II/TF34-100 Turbofan Engine to test on

  • Holt commands 3,800 Tennesseans

    There are approximately 3,800 guardsmen serving in the Tennessee Army National Guard's 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, headquartered in Knoxville, under the new command of Col. Warner Holt II. He is a branch manager with the Aerospace Testing Alliance Mission Support Department at the Arnold

  • Hundreds gather for ACC fundraiser

    The room was packed with people eager to celebrate AEDC and the contributions made by its highly skilled workforce during this year's Arnold Community Council Banquet held in Manchester. The ACC, a support group for the Complex, drew almost300 people to their annual fundraiser.Members of the

  • AEDC Green Team finds beauty in composting

    There's the saying that "one man's trash is another man's treasure," and that's certainly the belief for those taking part in the composting program at AEDC.Annie Clements, a systems analyst who started the composting effort on base through a recent Air Force Innovation Grant, found that not only is

  • AEDC Visitor Center announces holiday closings

    The Visitor Center at AEDC will be closed in observance of the upcoming holidays:Thanksgiving, Nov. 26-27; Christmas Day, Dec. 25; and New Year's Day, Jan.1, 2016.The AEDC Visitor Center provides services such as processing visitors and issuing military ID's, badges and Common Access Cards. For

  • AEDC awards TOS Contract

    The contracting office at Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) awarded the Test Operations and Sustainment contract Nov. 16, 2015. This contract will ensure AEDC remains the nation's ground test and evaluation facility of choice... today and tomorrow.National Aerospace Solutions, LLC (NAS),

  • AEDC testing benefits future of F-35 fleet

    The full hot-life capability of Pratt & Whitney's F135 engine, which is used in the F-35 Lightning II, was successfully demonstrated during Accelerated Mission Testing, or AMT, in test cell Sea Level 2 at AEDC.Sponsored by U.S. Air Force Engine Component Improvement Program Office, the test focused