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  • Navy officer docks it after 36 years

    It was the summer of '68 and the draft was in full swing. He stood in line to receive his draft physical. The Army corporal sternly managed the long line of draftees. He happens to notice a Navy recruiter walking by out of the corner of his eye. Like a cocky, undisciplined 18 year old, he grabbed

  • Engineers help demilitarize aging rockets

    Recently, Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) played a role in the environmentally-safe destruction of an aging Army Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) rocket motor in the center's J-6 rocket motor test facility. El Dorado Engineering (EDE), of Salt Lake City, Utah, came to AEDC with a

  • Missile makes for 'stunner' of a test

    A recent collaborative-intensive effort at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) resulted in successful time-sensitive aerodynamic testing of a scale model of the Stunner Missile in the center's von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility Tunnel A. Stunner is a relatively inexpensive, short-range

  • Arnold's Dr. Lynn Sebourn - a man always on the go

    Dr. Lynn Sebourn vividly recalls sitting in front of the TV when he was a child, watching the first lunar landing and Neil Armstrong taking those historic steps on the moon's surface. "I was three years old; I remember how excited everybody was about it," said Dr. Sebourn, a Dynetics facility

  • Air Force chief of staff visits Arnold

    The chief of staff of the Air Force made his first visit to Middle Tennessee and to Arnold Engineering Development Center at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., Monday to see and learn about developmental testing of current and future weapons systems. Gen. Norton Schwartz's inaugural tour of AEDC started

  • Arnold's Pratt & Whitney field site earns ACE Gold

    United Technologies Corp., recently designated their Pratt & Whitney (P&W) Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) field office as an Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Gold site. P&W Site Director Garry Blaisdell said this achievement took time and considerable effort to accomplish. "We

  • Assistant Air Force surgeon general makes final stop at Arnold

    She can remember her mother telling her as a young woman that the only jobs she and her sisters were going to be able to acquire were that of secretary, school teacher or nurse. And a nurse she became. Maj. Gen. Melissa Rank is the Air Force assistant surgeon general at Headquarters U.S. Air Force,

  • Out of this world: AEDC Engineer enjoys illumination of the night sky

    He's intrigued with stars, but not the kind that walk the red carpet. Ever since Gary Hammock, Aerospace Testing Alliance engineering analyst for ranges and arcs, was a little boy, he has admired the stars in the night sky. At the age of six, his father bought him a planetarium and Hammock would try

  • The 'dirty dozen' take on fire inspector course at Arnold

    Arnold Air Force Base (AFB) Fire and Emergency Services recently hosted a two-week Fire Inspector I Mobile Travel Team (MTT) course from the Louis F. Garland Fire Academy at Goodfellow AFB, Texas. Daryle Lopes, chief of Fire and Emergency Services at Arnold, said this was a highly sought after