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  • 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

  • Local man drowns in Woods Reservoir

    A 29-year-old local man died Monday while swimming in Woods Reservoir at Arnold AFB. George Mends, was swimming with friends. At some point, the swimmers headed toward the beach, but the man remained in the water, and when the other swimmers reached the beach they didn't see him and called 911. AEDC

  • AEDC holds Great American Shakeout emergency response exercise

    Recently, floods and tornadoes have dominated the news, impacting lives and destroying homes throughout a wide area, now, throw in an earthquake.No, not the real thing, but a large-scale natural disaster exercise that included Arnold AFB. AEDC conducted an earthquake exercise in conjunction with the