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  • Engineer marks career at AEDC with dynamic stability

    Even though Hugh DuBose has been retired from the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) almost as many years as he worked here, his years of contributions to the Propulsion Wind Tunnel's 16-foot supersonic and transonic wind tunnels are still lingering. Born in Mississippi and raised in

  • Second chance at life proves viable for Arnold's Cheryl Roberts

    Not many people get second chances, but for Morrison resident Cheryl Roberts, Aerospace Testing Alliance Operations Center second shift lead at the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), she got exactly that. In December 2006 Roberts was driving home, she parked the car and attempted to get

  • Arnold gets new civil engineer squadron commander

    Col. Robert Bender, commander of the 704th Mission Support Group at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), hands the command flag to the new 704th Civil Engineer Squadron Commander Lt. Col. Saroya Follender. As squadron commander, she will be responsible for 24 government personnel and

  • AEDC gets new financial management director

    Col. Joel Speight is the new director of Financial Management and Comptroller for Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC). As the principal financial adviser to the center commander, Colonel Speight directs all financial management functions for AEDC, including budget formulation and execution,

  • Exercise puts Arnold's fuel spill response team to the test

    In June, a core team of 20 key Arnold Engineering Development Center hazardous spill response personnel, along with Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) firefighters, paramedics and security forces, responded to a simulated hazardous waste spill of 20,000 gallons of JP-8 fuel from the center's

  • AEDC machinist uses landscape scenery as inspiration for paintings

    Aerospace Testing Alliance Machinist James "Trapper" Landon always knew, even as a little, boy he wanted to live in Alaska because of the picturesque landscape and the endless hunting opportunities. "After I got married I went to Alaska on a hunting trip for caribou for two weeks," he said. "I

  • Arnold team earns award for technological advancement

    Teams from Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and Advanced Fuel Research, Inc., (AFR) have been acknowledged as recipients of the 2008 Research & Development (R&D) Magazine Top 100 Award winners for technological advancements. AEDC honorees include: Ron Bishel, Don Gardner, Paul Jalbert,

  • Successful first flight of F-35B Lightning II is welcome news at Arnold

    Last month's completion of the first flight of the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) version of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. in Fort Worth, Texas, resonated with engineers at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center

  • U.S. Sen. Bob Corker visits AEDC test facilities

    United States Sen. Bob Corker visited the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in Coffee and Franklin counties Monday. Of particular interest to the senator was the center's involvement in testing military jet engines under flight conditions using synthetic fuels. The Air