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  • AEDC White Oak students making a difference

    The Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 has enjoyed several successes this summer with the rollout of a new control room, validation of several advanced instrumentation techniques and a highly successful Scramjet test.Perhaps the greatest success story of the summer at Arnold Engineering Development

  • AEDC's oil cleaning program saves money, benefits environment

    Energy efficiency and petroleum are currently hot topics in the news and no one has to look far to realize their importance, especially at a place like Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC).Before initiating an oil cleaning program in 2005, AEDC's leadership and work force had already

  • AEDC's Charlie Smith helps with disaster in the Gulf

    Charlie Smith, an Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) project engineer for aircraft systems in AEDC's Propulsion Wind Tunnel and retired 19-year command pilot with Nashville's 118th Airlift Wing, recently donned his flight gear to help assess the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Smith, who has

  • AEDC Firefighters remember 9/11 in Stair Climb

    Sept. 11, 2001 is a date most Americans will never forget, and some Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) firefighters are doing their part to keep its memory alive.Three hundred forty-three firefighters from around the area will come together Sept. 11 to honor the firefighters who lost their

  • Employee believer in seat belts, AEDC "family"

    Charles Conry says he is proof that seat belts save lives. Conry, store keeper at Hazardous Materials for ATA, says the number of fellow AEDC employees who showed up at the hospital or called following his recent automobile accident is also proof that people on base are really like family.The

  • Exhibit highlights AEDC, NASA cooperation

    From the beginnings of the American space program and Project Mercury, to the Apollo moon missions, to the space shuttles and potential future space projects, Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and NASA have cooperated to assure the readiness of space vehicles.Those collaborative efforts

  • Education fair brings new opportunities to work force

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) hosted this year's third annual education fair at the Arnold Lakeside Center (ALC).Around 100 employees and their families came out to this year's event and met with representatives from 23 colleges and universities in Tennessee, Alabama and throughout

  • Arnold Engineering Development Center offers tours

    With the start of school just around the corner, AEDC officials are encouraging people around the community and across the country to visit Arnold Air Force Base.As the world's most advanced and largest complex of flight simulation test facilities, AEDC has hosted distinguished visitors from all

  • AEDC volunteers go above and beyond call in tax help

    Many Air Force personnel are aware that Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) is available on base for those who qualify, headquartered in the Staff Judge Advocate's (SJA) office. But SJA Maj. Mitzi Weems is extremely proud of the extra work AEDC's VITA volunteers have done off base, using their