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  • AEDC improves solid rocket motor test process

    Moving a seven-ton rocket motor loaded with explosive fuel can be a tricky proposition, but that task just became easier, safer and more efficient at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC). Jan. 10, AEDC employees used a new transport system to move two such rocket motors - stage two and stage

  • Future EA-18G undergoes store separation testing at AEDC

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) has conducted 64.5 air-on hours of store separation testing to support development of the U.S. Navy's next generation electronic warfare aircraft, the EA-18G. The EA-18G, an electronic attack version of the F/A-18E/F aircraft, is the planned replacement

  • Navy fighter tests conducted in AEDC's 16-foot transonic tunnel

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) has completed a complex store separation test for the U.S. Navy's F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet in the center's 16-foot transonic wind tunnel (16T). "The purpose of our continuing wind tunnel testing is to certify the F/A-18E/F aircraft to carry new weapons,"

  • AEDC engineers played vital role in F-35 initial flight

    Friday's initial flight of the new F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) came after more than six years of development and testing at Arnold Engineering Development Center. Center engineers have tested the new weapon system using various scenarios and flight conditions. The F135 engine and

  • One-of-a-kind flow bench is operational again at AEDC

    Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory (PMEL) recently brought a unique liquid flow calibrator back into service. The large machine, a prototype, is used to calibrate liquid flow meters found in test cells on base and throughout the Air Force and

  • Arnold brings home DoD award

    People at Arnold take conserving natural resources seriously, earning the environmental flight recognition from the Department of Defense. The Secretary of Defense announced earlier this week that the 704th Civil Engineer Squadron's environmental flight earned the 2006 Secretary of Defense Natural

  • PSP system validates future goals of the program

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) has reached a milestone with its Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) system. A recent demonstration test was conducted on the F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) model installed in the center's 16-foot transonic wind tunnel. PSP applied to a JSF force

  • World's largest wind tunnel one step closer to reactivation

    After almost three years of inactivity, the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC) at Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, Calif., is preparing for it first test under Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), which is tentatively scheduled for December 2006. NFAC is being