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  • Fighting for the heroes who fought for our freedom

    Military personnel from Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) took time out of their busy work schedules to pay tribute to the men and women who no longer wear the uniform, but served their country with honor. The week of Feb. 14 of each year is dedicated to recognizing and showing

  • X-1 test pilot and former AEDC commander dies

    Brig. Gen. Gustav E. Lundquist,  88, of San Antonio, Texas, died Feb. 5. He was the husband of Mary Taliaferro "Tolly" Parrish  Lundquist, who was raised in Martinsville.  As a veteran engineer and  pilot, Lundquist had been involved in aviation his entire life.  Commissioned in 1941, he  became one

  • AEDC-tested Navy Standard Missile destroys errant satellite

    A single modified tactical Navy Standard Missile-3 was launched from the Navy's USS Lake Erie Wednesday in an attempt to take down an errant satellite before it entered Earth's atmosphere. According to Wayne Hawkins, Arnold Engineering Development Center plans and programs directorate engineer, the

  • Back in business: World's largest wind tunnel picks up where it left off

    The U.S. Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Center's National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) resumed its historic role in supporting space exploration with the recent successful dynamic loads and developmental testing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory's massive parachute. The MSL is

  • Arnold rated 'Excellent' by headquarters inspectors

    For more than six months, Arnold personnel have been preparing for the base's third Unit Compliance Inspection (UCI). That hard work paid off when the base received an overall score of "excellent" from the inspectors. "You can all be justifiably proud of this grade which is the result of a lot of

  • National Engineers Week events scheduled for Feb. 17-23

    X-35 Chief Test Pilot Tom Morgenfeld to speak at engineers week banquet Feb. 20Thomas Morgenfeld, chief test pilot for the X-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program, will be the keynote speaker for the Engineers Week Banquet Feb. 20 at the Coffee County Conference Center. He will speak about his experiences

  • 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