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  • AEDC's Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 reaches 3,000-run milestone

    March 15 marked an important milestone for one of Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) world-unique test assets. The Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9, located at AEDC's White Oak near Silver Spring, Md., completed its 3,000 test run as the facility approaches 30 years of operation. The first

  • Original WASP recruit speaks at lecture

    On Monday, Margaret Ringenberg, an accomplished aviator and World War II Women's Air Force Service Pilot (WASP), was the guest speaker at the Distinguished Lecturer Program presented by the Tennessee Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the H.H. Arnold Chapter of the

  • Former service historian to speak to modern history makers

    A former Air Force historian will be the 2007 Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Fellows banquet speaker June 25. Dr. Richard P. Hallion is the senior adviser for air and space issues in the directorate for security, counterintelligence and special programs oversight at the Pentagon in

  • Hot, high Mach test builds confidence in missile seeker window

    A team at the Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 in Silver Spring, Md., turned up the heat recently on a key component of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) defensive missile system.They subjected a full-scale model of a THAAD missile nosecone

  • AEDC adapts propulsion technology for wind tunnel tests of F-35

    A recent series of successful F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aerodynamic tests in Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) 16-foot transonic wind tunnel (16T) demonstrated the center's ability to adapt propulsion test technologies for use in wind tunnel tests. "We developed and implemented

  • F118 engine continues altitude performance testing at AEDC

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) is currently testing the F118-100 General Electric (GE) engine, power plant for the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, in the center's Engine Test Facility J-1 Test Cell. This particular test is part of GE's Service Life Extension Program (SLEP), which is under

  • AEDC camera assists in turbine tests

    A periscope camera on loan from Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) provided images of a Williams International full annular turbine engine augmentor rig during recent testing in the first of several different augmentor concepts at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at

  • AEDC's Hypervelocity Ballistic G-Range return to service is complete

    Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Hypervelocity Ballistic G-Range is now fully-mission capable as a result of the recent completion of a significant repair project. In November 2004 a mishap occurred in which combustion of hydrogen gas in the facility's vacuum ducting severely damaged a

  • ORBUS rocket motor undergoes successful test firing at J-6

    The U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) successfully test-fired an ORBUS 1A rocket motor under simulated high-altitude conditions at the center's J-6 Large Rocket Motor Test Facility, providing critical support for the second and third stage power plant of the Missile

  • Tunnel 9 completes Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle testing

    The U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Tunnel 9 facility in White Oak, Md. is playing a crucial role in the ongoing Falcon program, with the completion of mission-critical testing of the Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 1 (HTV-1). The Falcon initiative is a joint Defense