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  • F-35 aerodynamic loads testing at Arnold AFB marks

    The U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) just completed aerodynamic testing on two variants of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter to support flight testing of the plane later this year. With this latest test, AEDC surpassed 8,000 hours of JSF testing in the center's

  • Arnold AFB supports Department of Defense Assured Fuels Initiative

    The U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) is taking a leading role in supporting the Department of Defense's Assured Fuels initiative which aims to steer the military away from its reliance on foreign oil. A team from the center took their technical expertise and specialized

  • Non-intrusive measurement technology validated

    An Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) technology and analysis branch team recently broke new ground at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) by conducting a series of tests to determine the feasibility of using an optical method to accurately measure and assess the airflow quality in the

  • AEDC performs mission critical tests on F-35 model

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) recently conducted successful aerodynamic loads testing on a 12-percent scale model of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in the center's 16-foot transonic wind tunnel. The test was tentatively the next to last in a series of similar

  • AEDC's new high performance computer is online

    Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) most recent addition to their high performance computer (HPC) center, two 80 processor Hewlett-Packard XC cluster systems, are now online and have already been put to preliminary use by test customers. The new system was first brought online in January

  • Minuteman III upper stage rocket motors test fired in J-6

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) recently conducted the successful test firing of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Stage 2 Production Quality Assurance (PQA) rocket motor in the Large Rocket Test Facility J-6. This test was followed by a successful test firing of

  • 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