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  • “Crucial Conversations” gaining AEDC popularity

    When Louis Vanacore, director of Projects and Design Engineering for Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), read the book "Crucial Conversations," he saw great value in its concepts and wanted to share them across Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC).Vanacore was so impressed with the material,

  • AEDC machinists create B-52 in Model Shop

    R.D. Green sits in a chair, patiently filing away tooling marks where an engine pod has been joined to an airplane wing. The area he's buffing out is about the size of a quarter - on a seven-foot long piece of metal. Nearby, fellow Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) machinist Derrick Burton is putting

  • AEDC-managed NFAC site of unique future generation test

    AEDC's National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex's (NFAC) 40-by-80-foot wind tunnel at Moffett Field, Calif., is the chosen location for a unique wind tunnel test on a 10-foot span model of a NASA's cruise efficient short take-off and landing (CESTOL) concept aircraft. According to Chris Hartley,

  • AEDC supports Angel Tree effort

    Disadvantaged mid-state children will once again benefit from the generosity of Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) employees this holiday season.The AEDC Angel Tree contains the names of 179 children, all of whom have already been "adopted" by AEDC employees. An additional 15 children were

  • Air Force analysis branch at AEDC is already busy

    By late 2010, guidance from the Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Technical Excellence Board helped lead to the formation of an analysis branch at the world's largest and most advanced complex of flight simulation test facilities.Dr. Ed Kraft, AEDC chief technologist and the head of the

  • AEDC-tested Dreamliner makes first passenger flight

    News of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner's first commercial flight Oct. 26 apparently caught the attention of a lot of people, including AEDC's Doug Hodges.In 2007, Hodges was one of the engineers working with a team to conduct ground testing on the Trent 1000, the engine that powered the first passenger

  • Parker leaving his mark on AEDC

    When J.Y. Parker first came to Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) as a young engineer not long out of Auburn University, he expected to spend a few years getting a master's degree from the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) and return to Huntsville, Ala., where he previously

  • AEMTC re-elects officers to another term

    The Air Engineering Metal Trades Council (AEMTC) re-elected all its current principal officers to serve another term Nov. 22.Serving another term in office are AEMTC President Jimmy Dale Nance, Vice President Jay Vandergriff, Recording Secretary Reina Shanks and Secretary Treasurer Annette

  • The engineering process: at work and home

    For most of us, we chose an engineering career to fulfill our interest and desire to understand how things work and how to make them work better. We immerse ourselves into the "engineering process" and focus all our energies to this work each day of our lives. Many professionals today, including