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  • AEDC Visitors Center to close down for holidays

    A change is coming to the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Visitors Center's hours this holiday season, but according to data gathered over the last couple of years, it is a change most people probably will never notice.Starting this Thanksgiving, the Visitors Center at the main gate

  • AEDC officials, National Weather Service preparing for stormy weather

    Officials at AEDC use every tool available to keep base personnel safe, especially when the weather takes a turn for the worse.One of those tools is the National Weather Service. Emergency Management Lead Daryl Justice says he and Emergency Management Coordinator Brad Walker can always get in touch

  • Bronze bust honoring Lance Cpl. Gregory A. Posey, USMC, to be dedicated

    U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Gregory A. Posey gave his last measure of devotion to his country on a battlefield in Afghanistan.Now, Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) employees are showing their devotion to Lance Corporal Posey by unveiling a bronze

  • Mosley: a family looks back on a shared experience

    "Teach a youth about the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6)In 1951, Robert Mosley Jr., now 80, took a short break from working outside on a hot summer day to look around the site where the U.S. Air Force's Air Engineering Development Center was taking

  • AEDC's Charles Easley recognized as a Hometown Hero

    In 2003, when Master Sgt. Charles Easley looked out the window of the C-131 as the pilot rapidly brought the plane down onto the runway of the darkened Baghdad International Airport, he felt excited at the prospect of entering a country the U.S. and allied forces had just invaded, landing while

  • AEDC reduces customer power costs by almost $5 million

    AEDC averted a $4.86 million energy bill for its customers with a program called night operations or "night ops." As part of night ops, tests that require the most energy consumption are done during the evening and into the morning of the next day when power is cheaper and more readily available.

  • Newly painted J-1/J-2 area floor functional, eye-catching

    It's amazing what a fresh coat of paint will do, even for a test area floor.The J-1/J-2 high bay floor, a part of Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Engine Test Facility (ETF), is all the talk because it combines functionality with two attractive decals that contribute to pride in the

  • Immersion Program gives hands-on experience

    First Lt. Alex Henning should be getting some of the hands-on engineering experience he may have only dreamed of until now.Lieutenant Henning, who has an aeronautical engineering degree from the Air Force Academy, is a project manager for the high-enthalpy arc-heater facilities at Arnold Engineering

  • AEDC hikers conquer Mount Whitney

    If you look around Ron Polce's office you'll see photographs of his various hikes, climbs and other outdoor conquests. But the latest adventure by Polce, chief of the Test Systems Division at Arnold Engineering Development Center, and John Casey, technical specialist in Environmental Compliance, has