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  • Arnold's Jody Frame is quick to listen, slow to speak

    "My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry." (James 1.19)Jody Frame's cell phone is ringing. Then there's a knock at the door, a call is coming in on his radio and he's right in the middle of speaking to an air conditioning

  • Arnold invites public to Air Force Birthday Bash Sept. 28

    Arnold Air Force Base's 704th Services Division is proud to host an Air Force Birthday Bash celebration Sunday, Sept. 28 at the Recreation Beach and Gossick Leadership Center area. The carnival-type event is open to the public and will begin at noon and close with a fireworks display at 8:15 p.m.

  • The face behind Arnold's toolbox topics

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) employees get them in their email inbox every day covering a variety of safety, health and security topics. They see her name, Vicki Peters, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) Safety and Health, but do they ever wonder who she really is? She's a wife and

  • Arnold's 717th Test Squadron changes command

    Lt. Col. Najeeb Ahmed is the new commander for Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) 717th Test Squadron. Prior to coming to AEDC, Colonel Ahmed was the chief of acquisition programs of the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force executive action group. He

  • Arnold's Dave Duesterhaus named NFAC director

    Dave Duesterhaus, quality manager in Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Plans and Programs directorate, has been selected to become the new site director at AEDC's National Full Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) at Moffett Field, Calif., effective Sept. 1. The NFAC wind tunnel facility,

  • High velocity

    David Brown and Troy Perry, ATA outside machinists, install a slug projectile with a pitch motor installed into the 8-inch bore diameter barrel of AEDC's Hypervelocity Range G's launcher. This projectile will be launched out of the G Range two-stage light gas gun at a velocity of 8,200 feet per

  • Base officials ask public to report illegal dumping by lake

    Air Force officials at Arnold Air Force Base are asking users of Woods Reservoir to report people illegally littering and dumping in and around the lake. Illegal dumping near the dam at Woods Reservoir, a popular place to fish, was recently brought to the attention of base leadership, who

  • Thomas Perkins - a man with a dream

    When his teacher asked Tom Perkins what he wanted to be when he grew up, the seventh grader shot up his hand and confidently replied, "Either an aeronautical engineer or an Army Air Corps officer." The 79-year-old retired Arnold Engineering Development Center engineer said one of his young