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  • AEDC's Waymond Buchanan keeps the tests going

    Waymond "Buck" Buchanan knows a thing or two about working hard. He vividly recalls those early years of helping his father, a sharecropper, raise cotton, hay and tobacco on a 70-acre farm in rural middle Tennessee. Chopping cotton, cutting hay and harvesting tobacco under a hot summer sun was not

  • AEDC Fellows nominations being accepted

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) is currently accepting nominations for the 2008 Fellows program with submissions due no later than March 31. Established in 1989, the Fellows program recognizes AEDC scientists and engineers who have made exceptionally distinguished and substantial

  • Ground test expert, AEDC Fellow Robert Dietz dies

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Fellow Robert O. Dietz, 84, died Jan. 19 at his home in Manchester. The family will receive friends at the visitation Jan. 26 from noon-3 p.m. at the Central Funeral Home in Manchester. A "Celebration of Life" memorial service will follow the visitation

  • Phil Tarver - AEDC's man behind the lens

    Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) first public affairs photographer, Phil Tarver spent more than 30 years documenting the people, technology and engineering breakthroughs instrumental in keeping the center at the forefront of flight simulation testing in the world. He did more than

  • Otto Bock helped make Arnold's G-Range a national defense asset

    Otto Bock of Brentwood, Tenn., is one of the few surviving engineers, scientists and technical specialists the U.S. military brought to Wright Field, Ohio from Germany after World War II as part of Operation Paperclip. Operation Paperclip was the code name given to the program under which military

  • Arnold workers test new bomb with new jet

    One new warfighter favorite joined forces with a near-future warfighting staple for the first time during testing ending in December at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn.A team from Lockheed Martin and Arnold conducted simulated store

  • In Remembrance: Mrs. Hertha Goethert

    The wife of the "father of rocket testing at AEDC" died at her home in Manchester, Tenn., Jan. 7 after battling a long illness. Hertha Todt Goethert, 94, was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Dr. B. H. Goethert. Dr. Goethert served as chief scientist for Air Force Systems Command from

  • AEDC named state top government recycler

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) is starting the New Year in full swing, beginning with the recognition from the Tennessee Recycling Coalition (TRC) for its recycling efforts. In her award notification to AEDC, Gail Randolph, chair for the TRC Awards stated, "The men and women at AEDC