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  • Tunnel 9 engineer Will Vodra marvels at dream career

    Ask ATA's Will Vodra how he got an engineering position at AEDC's White Oak Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 and he doesn't mince words. "Sheer luck," he said. "I had been working for 10 years in the semiconductor industry and it's a very cyclical industry. When the company was consolidated and moved up

  • AEDC engineer named as an AIAA Fellow

    Dr. Frank Steinle, an Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) engineer at AEDC, has been elected as one of the 2009 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellows.  ATA is the support contractor for AEDC. Dr. Steinle will be inducted as an AIAA Fellow at the Aerospace Spotlight Awards

  • Collaborative effort at AEDC results in 'standard model' test in 16T

    AEDC has collaborated with NASA to develop a standard wind tunnel check model for wind tunnel comparison. The test was part of a complex project that centered around the aerodynamic testing on an existing, but modified, aircraft model to measure flow conditions in Arnold's 16-foot transonic wind

  • AEDC contractor award fee announced

    Air Force officials announced the award fee for the Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) support contractor, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), today for the period April 1 through Sept. 30, 2008. The award fee determining official, AEDC Commander Col. Art Huber, approved an award fee of

  • AEDC and Edwards teams, UTSI Professor win Tennessee AIAA section awards

    The local Tennessee American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) section recently held its 2008 awards ceremony at the ALC. Awards presented included the Hap Arnold award, two Billy J. Griffith awards, a special award and the AIAA Booster award. The General Henry H "Hap" Arnold Award,

  • New executive director named

    Michael Britt Covington is AEDC's new executive director. In this role, Covington will be responsible for assisting the center commander in overseeing the daily operations of Arnold. Covington, who reports for duty at AEDC Monday, comes from Tinker AFB, Okla., where he was the technical director for

  • Jessica McNeese - a woman with healing in her heart

    As a child Jessica McNeese always said she was going to be a doctor. Later in life, another goal emerged, but her interest in helping people remained. "I wanted to take care of people - I'm a very mothering kind of person," she said. "I thought I'd be a doctor, but I didn't want to take the call

  • AEDC collaboration with Redstone pays off

    A collaborative effort initiated by a team at AEDC's Precision Measurement Equipment Lab (PMEL) has resulted in the successful renovation of two major metrology assets for DoD customers of the Army's Primary Standards Laboratory (APSL) at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. In 2006, James

  • Arnold receives 'excellence' award for sixth time

    Air Force officials announced Monday that Arnold Engineering Development Center is a winner of the 2008 Air Force Organizational Excellence Award (AFOEA) for work accomplished June 1, 2006 - May 31, 2008. This is the sixth time AEDC has received this unit award; the last being in 1998. Created in