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  • AEDC implements night ops for fourth year to lower costs

    AEDC has significantly lowered the cost to the customer since the organization's leadership first implemented a night operations testing schedule for the summer months in 2007. "Five weeks into it [this year] we've saved our customers slightly more than $1 million in energy costs," said Gary Bryant,

  • Scale-tipping 44,000 hp motor returns to AEDC

    Crane operators and riggers recently offloaded a 44,000 horsepower, 80-ton exhaust plant drive motor at AEDC's C-Plant exhauster. C-Plant consists of an airside and an exhaust side complex. Collectively, the plant is a pressure, temperature and humidity conditioning facility that supplies air to

  • AEDC inactivates group, squadron structure

    As part of a headquarters Air Force plan, AEDC inactivated its group and squadron structure June 25.The Air Force directed the change from wings, groups and squadrons to directorates, divisions and branches.The event occurred on the 59th anniversary of the AEDC dedication by President Harry Truman,

  • Enhanced CFD capabilities put AEDC on cutting edge

    Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been around for years now, but recent advances in hardware and computer codes are helping make Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) among the leaders in this scientific field.Dr. Ralph Jones, branch manager of Aerospace Testing Alliance's (ATA)

  • Command implements re-structuring plan

    Air Force Materiel Command officials started implementing the command's re-structuring plan June 30, officially moving most AFMC acquisition organizations from wings, groups and squadrons to directorates, divisions and branches.The move follows an Air Force senior leadership decision to standardize

  • F-16 dedicated to late general

    The F-16 "Viper" located at Gate 2 was dedicated Saturday in a private ceremony in honor of Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Harpe.The highest ranking active-duty officer to die in an F-16, the general perished Dec. 5, 1988, when his aircraft crashed in Madrid, Spain, while on a routine training mission.He

  • Fighter engine bio-fuel testing underway

    An F110 engine that powers the F-16 Fighting Falcon recently began performance testing here at Arnold Engineering Development Center using a 50/50 blend of JP-8 conventional aviation fuel and a bio-fuel derived from the oil contained in the seed of the camelina plant, commonly known as false or wild

  • Three generations of AF interns succeeding, proving program success

    When 23-year-old Stephen Maccarino reports to AEDC later in June he will represent a third "generation" of PALACE Acquire program participants who will work in the 650th Test Evaluation System Squadron at the same time.The PALACE Acquire program, which has been in existence since the late 1980s, was

  • Command moves forward with restructuring plan

    Air Force Materiel Command officials notified center commanders Tuesday, May 11, that Air Force headquarters has approved converting the command structure from wings, groups and squadrons to directorates, divisions and branches. The targeted implementation date for these organizational changes is

  • AEDC ramps up UXO response

    Many AEDC personnel have noticed a number of controlled detonations of unexploded ordnance (UXO) scheduled recently on base. As part of the Air Force's Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP), UXO surface clearance teams from Bay West and Shaw Environmental are currently seeking out and