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  • Cope earns achievement award in emergency services

    Ricky Cope, a paramedic crew chief for Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Fire and Emergency Services, has been honored with the Tennessee Ambulance Service Association's (TASA) 2010 Tommy Erwin Lifetime Achievement Award. The Tommy Erwin Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually to

  • Payload aboard recent shuttle launch tested at AEDC

    Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavor, the most recent space shuttle launch, connected the cupola to the International Space Station (ISS) that was tested at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC). The cupola window test was conducted in AEDC's 12-foot diameter vacuum (12V) space

  • Global Hawk engine to 'fly' again at AEDC

    The AE3007H growth engine, the power plant for the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS), is undergoing testing in Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) T-4 test cell."This is the first [altitude] test on this [specific] growth engine," said Gary Meuer, Aerospace Testing Alliance

  • Arnold Police earn POST certification, first in center history

    For the first time in its almost 60-year history, Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) police officers will be recognized under Tennessee Code Annotated as a legal entity for Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) certification. In a ceremony earlier today led by former police chief

  • New capability to make customer testing run smoother

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) engineers are always looking for ways to improve or upgrade the center's capabilities and services. One focus has been on serving the center's customers in the best and most efficient way during testing. The idea of having a remote monitoring capability

  • Coworkers, base first responders mobilize to save a life

    Feb. 11 started off uneventfully for Michael Bunch at Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory (PMEL). Around 2 p.m., the 49-year-old Aerospace Testing Alliance instrument technician was working at a calibration bench when he suddenly felt lightheaded

  • Joe Sacco is still on a journey of learning and flight

    As a child, Joe Sacco enjoyed creative, hands on projects. "I was interested in trying to understand the different forces at work in nature," he said. "I have always been interested in anything that flies; birds, airplanes or rockets. So, I started building model airplanes at an early age."Money or

  • NFAC aerodynamic truck test to set industry standards

    Industry experts say Class 8 tractor-trailers are responsible for around 12 percent of the total U.S. consumption of petroleum, but to truck drivers, it's the high cost of fuel that has their attention. William "Billy" Brain, a regional truck driver from middle Tennessee, knows it's mainly the high

  • At 71, Jack Lamons is still in the game

    Like many young men who play sports in high school, Jack Lamons had a coach who inspired his students to consider going into coaching as a profession. Lamons decided against going that route, but he acknowledged learning an important lesson from his parents and coach, Turney Ford. They had