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  • AEDC Fellow Dr. James Mitchell looks back on 60 years of AEDC history

    In 1989, Dr. James G. Mitchell became one of the first Arnold Engineering Development Center employees to be recognized by the AEDC Fellows program. This program had been established to recognize people who have made exceptionally distinguished contributions to the center's flight testing mission.

  • From soldier to pipefitter, retired employee has seen AEDC from all angles

    When Jack Boyer arrived at Camp Forrest in 1941 with the Army, he never dreamed that his journey would take him full circle: overseas with the Army and back for a career at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC).Now the 92-year-old Manchester resident reflects on a life of satisfaction and

  • AEDC's longest consecutive employee looking forward, not back

    With Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) celebrating its 60th anniversary June 25, at least one man can recall most of those years as an employee.Records show Tullahoma, Tenn., native Bob Rogers, 76, is the longest consecutively employed worker, with more than 54 years of service. Having

  • ATA maintains ISO certification

    Aerospace Testing Alliance's (ATA) management system has maintained its certification by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).The company was last re-certified by ISO in May of last year.ATA's second external ISO 9001:2008 surveillance audit for this certification period was

  • Karate class at AEDC improves physical, mental fitness

    Don Gardner, Aerospace Testing Alliance's instrumentation and diagnostics section manager of the Technology and Analysis Branch, has taught a karate class at AEDC since 1993."Karate is a sport that can be practiced for life," said Gardner, who teaches the class on a volunteer basis. "If practiced

  • Over 60 years, safety mindset has changed at AEDC

    It's an incredible amount of information on its own: the names of people who lost their lives on the job at AEDC over the last six decades.Many employees at AEDC learned those names during Beyond Zero orientation, when former ATA general manager Dr. David Elrod visited their class. But he gave them

  • Over 60 years, AEDC wind tunnels have seen a wide variety of work

    When the Air Force sent Capt. Win Phipps to AEDC in 1989, his last job before being assigned to the base was to switch phones over to a new digital system.Today, as a civilian test manager for the base's wind tunnel systems, he has seen advances in aviation that go way beyond the jump from an analog

  • A-10 Thunderbolt pilot coming back to Tullahoma for air show

    When an A-10 Thunderbolt II takes to the skies over Tullahoma July 1, it will be a familiar sight from the cockpit for Air Force Capt. Joe Shetterly.When Captain Shetterly got his first active-duty assignment eight years ago, it was at Arnold AFB. He arrived on the weekend of the Centennial of

  • ATA makes more management changes

    More Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) employees are stepping into new roles after last month's departure of former ATA General Manager Dr. David Elrod. Dr. Elrod left AEDC May 25 to become senior vice president of business development at Jacobs Technology in Tullahoma.Steve Pearson was named Dr.

  • RSVP for Fellows Banquet by June 17

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) will induct three new AEDC Fellows along with two Lifetime Achievement Fellows June 24 at the annual Fellows banquet.The banquet is open to all who wish to attend and support AEDC's new Fellows and Lifetime Achievement Fellows. RSVPs are being taken