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  • AEDC STEM Aviation Program attendance soars

    With participation of more than 60 students, the AEDC Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Aviation Program had a record number of attendance during the last school year and during the recent graduation aviation flights with the Eagleville Soaring Club.The aviation program began

  • AEDC contributions to Viking ensures Mars first landing

    The NASA Viking Lander 1 successfully reached the surface of Mars in July 20, 1976, due to the testing AEDC conducted on the launch vehicle and the entry vehicle parachute system.The Titan III/Centaur launch vehicle for the lander was tested in the Propulsion Wind Tunnel in the mid-1960s and the

  • B-52 testing conducted at AEDC continues to pay off

    Testing performed at AEDC proves critical to validate safe separation of new munitions from the B-52 Stratofortress, which has recently flight-demonstrated a joint direct attack munitions drop from the internal bay for the first time."The B-52 Stratofortress continues to deliver strategic

  • AEDC STEM Aviation Program attendance soars

    With participation of more than 60 students, the AEDC Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Aviation Program had a record number of attendance during the last school year and during the recent graduation aviation flights with the Eagleville Soaring Club.The aviation program began

  • AEDC Spotlight: Michelle Sutton takes on AEDC career step-by-step

    For 37 years, Michelle Sutton, a senior financial management specialist with the AEDC Financial Management and Comptroller Division, has taken different steps to her current job title, beginning with her first AEDC job as a Stay-in-School.The SIS program is designed to provide students an experience

  • NAS assumes operations at AEDC

    As of 12:01 a.m., July 1 the new contractor overseeing the Test Operations and Sustainment (TOS) contract at Arnold Engineering Development Complex is National Aerospace Solutions, LLC.NAS is a limited liability corporation represented by Bechtel National, Inc., GP Strategies, and Sierra Lobo,

  • Keeping wind tunnels running at peak capability important to AEDC

    During the early 1950s, AEDC began to stand-up a new and much larger wind tunnel testing facility than was available anywhere else in the nation at the time. To power this state-of-the-art 16 foot test cell to Mach speeds, the world's largest electric motors ever built were designed and fabricated.