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    Pawlikowski welcomed ‘home’ one final time

    Pawlikowski’s ‘Final Flight’ celebration, redolent of the aviator ‘Fini Flight’ tradition, served as an opportunity for 88th Air Base Wing personnel to wish her farewell and good luck as she moves into retirement following 40 years of distinguished military service.
  • U.S. Air Force Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski

    Pawlikowski tenure marked by effectiveness, Air Force readiness

    U.S. Air Force Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski will retire from the Air Force following 40 years of service in September. As only the third female to attain the rank of 4-star general in the history of the Air Force, Pawlikowski’s career was marked by extraordinary achievements across the science and engineering domains. This article highlights a number of AFMC accomplishments during Pawlikowski's tenure and concludes with a brief look at her career highlights.
  • The current AEDC emblem is pictured. The emblem was designed in 1993 and officially approved the following year. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    2018 marks conceptual year for AEDC emblem

    The order had been delivered. The deadline was tight. But members of Team AEDC pulled together to meet the challenge before them, and the result of their efforts continues to represent the organization a quarter of a century after its conceptualization. This year marks 25 years since the current AEDC organizational emblem was designed and cleared
  • Austin Voorhes (standing), a senior mechanical design engineer at Arnold Air Force Base, discusses steam regulators during a lunch and learn session in the Carroll Building on July 25. Voorhes was recently recognized for establishing the lunch and learns at Arnold. More than 100 lunch and learns have been held since Voorhes began the effort a little more than three years ago. (U.S. Air Force photo by Bradley Hicks) (This image was manipulated by obscuring badges for security purposes)

    Voorhes recognized for “lunch and learn” program, a professional development tool, and AEDC success

    Young engineers are often expected to know aspects of the job they may not yet be familiar with, and one of the biggest challenges they face is pinpointing where to find answers to their questions or identifying the best person to ask, according to Austin Voorhes, a senior mechanical design engineer at Arnold Air Force Base. To help newer engineers
  • Gage Seals and Terry Bush, instrumentation technicians at Arnold Air Force Base, clean part of the Tunnel A nozzle at the von Kármán Facility. Periodic maintenance of the facilities is one of the many duties of an instrumentation technician’s duties at Arnold. (U.S. Air Force photo by Deidre Ortiz)

    Instrumentation technicians – the ones behind the scenes of testing at Arnold

    Instrumentation technicians, or ITs, are individuals who install, service, troubleshoot and perform preventative and predictive maintenance functions on equipment.Duties of an IT also include testing, calibrating, installing, repairing and inspecting monitoring devices.ITs are essential personnel to Arnold Air Force Base because they are the ones
  • This team, consisting of members from several organizations across Arnold Air Force Base, recently worked together to prevent a calibration interval dropping to under six months for digital temperature scanners. The effort resulted in a cost avoidance of additional man hours for AEDC. Pictured left to right: Randy Jones, Jensie Castleman, Lora Arnold, Ed Simmons, Frances Samples, Randy Prince and Greg Earp. Not pictured is Kathy Gemma. (U.S. Air Force photo by Deidre Ortiz)

    Innovative calibration mitigation effort achieves cost avoidance for AEDC

    Members of the Enterprise Data System team at Arnold Air Force Base implemented a proactive maintenance action to prevent a calibration interval dropping to under six months for digital temperature scanners (DTS), thus preventing an estimated cost of $96,000 in additional man hours for AEDC.According to Randy Prince, an instrumentation, data and
  • Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Azzano poses with the Air Force Test Center guidon with the commander of Air Force Materiel Command, Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, during a change-of-command held in Hangar 1600 at Edwards Air Force Base, Aug. 3. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kenji Thuloweit)

    Air Force Test Center welcomes new commanding general

    The world’s premier flight test organization is in the hands of a new leader. Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Azzano assumed command of the Air Force Test Center during a ceremony held Aug. 3 in Hangar 1600 at Edwards Air Force Base. Azzano takes the reins from Maj. Gen. David Harris who has commanded the AFTC for the past three years.Gen. Ellen M.
  • In memory of Lt. Christopher “Bueller” Short, U.S. Navy pilot, a bench was placed at the end of the Rim Trail in the Tularosa Basin, N.M., July 13, 2018. Short lost his life when an A-29 Super Tucano crashed over the Red Rio Bombing Range, June 22, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Senior Airman Chase Cannon)

    In Memoriam: Lt. Christopher “Bueller” Short

     (EDITOR’S NOTE: Information from this story was gathered from several uncredited sources, i.e. memorial plaques, obituaries, ext.)At approximately 11:30 a.m., June 22, 2018, Lt. Christopher “Bueller” Short, a U.S. Navy pilot, lost his life when an A-29 Super Tucano crashed over the Red Rio Bombing Range. “A couple of weeks ago, a good friend and
  • Younes Baalla, a recent University of Tennessee Space Institute graduate, right, discusses the payload attached to a high-altitude balloon before it is launched by participants of the Hands-On Science Center Air Force STEM Summer Camp. (U.S. Air Force photo/Bradley Hicks)

    Up, Up and Away! STEM Summer Camp launches high-altitude balloon into the stratosphere

    Tully recently reached heights that perhaps no other plush groundhog has before.The high-altitude balloon to which the stuffed animal was attached lifted off from the grounds of the Hands-On Science Center, rising through the clouds and out of sight before touching the stratosphere and beginning its descent. When all was said and done, the balloon
  • Pictured is the additional optics used by AEDC Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 to convert a recently-developed laser diagnostics system to a Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy system. The new measurement system is paving the way for a Mach 18 testing capability at Tunnel 9. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

    Laser diagnostics beneficial in Tunnel 9 Mach 18 capability development

    The team at AEDC Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 in White Oak, Maryland, is paving the way for testing at unprecedented speeds in part by using a recently developed measurement system.Advanced laser diagnostics were developed and demonstrated to better understand the Tunnel 9 flow field thermodynamic properties and inform the Computational Fluid Dynamics
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