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  • Jere Matty retiring after 30 years at AEDC

    For Jere Matty, working at Arnold Engineering Development Center was a perfect fit. He literally saw the writing on the wall on his first day.The wall was a stall in a bathroom at the von Kármán Gas Dynamics facility. The writing was a differential equation someone had been working on."At a pilot

  • Suggestion earns award for employee, cost savings for AEDC

    A suggestion that will save Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) $23,548 annually and earned an employee cash award through the Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) Ideas in Action Suggestion Program required innovative thinking by Marty Gordon.Gordon, a software engineer for ATA, was recognized

  • AEDC's Crawford Parrish aims high

    Crawford Parrish has always aimed high, both literally and spiritually. "I wanted to learn to fly from the time I was very young," said Parrish, AEDC's Capabilities Analysis and Risk Assessment manager. "The Air Force seemed an obvious route so I pursued it. It probably had a lot to do with growing

  • 2012 Engineer-for-a-Day event brings back memories

    "The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good." L. Sprague de Camp, science fiction writer and Navy aeronautical engineerThis year National Engineers Week takes place Feb. 19-25. During one of the

  • AEDC junior officer’s council supports Teens for Jeans

    With help from AEDC's Company Grade Officer's Council (CGOC) and others, the Franklin County High School's "Teens for Jeans" Drive was a success.A couple of weeks ago, 2nd Lt. Matthew Karczewski, a hypersonic propulsion test engineer for AEDC's Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit (APTU) and CGOC

  • AEDC and UTSI cryo-contamination research heralded a success

    A collaboration between Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and graduate students at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) resulted in the most recent of three cryo-contamination experiments in AEDC's small ultra high vacuum (UHV) chamber. Researchers at both organizations are

  • Final Minuteman rocket motors undergoing testing at AEDC

    One of the final Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) motors to roll off the assembly line was tested in the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) J-6 Large Rocket Motor Test Facility.Production quality assurance (PQA) testing concluded Jan. 18 on the Stage 2

  • AEDC rolling out lean concept for testing the A-10 engine

    A decision to bring a sea level test cell to AEDC in 1994 is paying dividends as initial testing of a legacy, but modified General Electric TF34 turbofan engine was recently initiated."We were successful in being chosen for the A-10 [Thunderbolt] engine, TF34, AMT (accelerated mission test)," said

  • AFMC, AFGE union officials reach labor agreement

    Senior leaders from the American Federation of Government Employees Council 214 and Air Force Materiel Command have completed negotiations on a new master labor agreement that will affect approximately 35,000 of the command's civilian employees.Scott Blanch, AFGE Council 214 president, and Gen.