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  • Employee believer in seat belts, AEDC "family"

    Charles Conry says he is proof that seat belts save lives. Conry, store keeper at Hazardous Materials for ATA, says the number of fellow AEDC employees who showed up at the hospital or called following his recent automobile accident is also proof that people on base are really like family.The

  • Exhibit highlights AEDC, NASA cooperation

    From the beginnings of the American space program and Project Mercury, to the Apollo moon missions, to the space shuttles and potential future space projects, Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and NASA have cooperated to assure the readiness of space vehicles.Those collaborative efforts

  • Education fair brings new opportunities to work force

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) hosted this year's third annual education fair at the Arnold Lakeside Center (ALC).Around 100 employees and their families came out to this year's event and met with representatives from 23 colleges and universities in Tennessee, Alabama and throughout

  • Arnold Engineering Development Center offers tours

    With the start of school just around the corner, AEDC officials are encouraging people around the community and across the country to visit Arnold Air Force Base.As the world's most advanced and largest complex of flight simulation test facilities, AEDC has hosted distinguished visitors from all

  • AEDC volunteers go above and beyond call in tax help

    Many Air Force personnel are aware that Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) is available on base for those who qualify, headquartered in the Staff Judge Advocate's (SJA) office. But SJA Maj. Mitzi Weems is extremely proud of the extra work AEDC's VITA volunteers have done off base, using their

  • Scale-tipping 44,000 hp motor returns to AEDC

    Crane operators and riggers recently offloaded a 44,000 horsepower, 80-ton exhaust plant drive motor at AEDC's C-Plant exhauster. C-Plant consists of an airside and an exhaust side complex. Collectively, the plant is a pressure, temperature and humidity conditioning facility that supplies air to

  • AEDC inactivates group, squadron structure

    As part of a headquarters Air Force plan, AEDC inactivated its group and squadron structure June 25.The Air Force directed the change from wings, groups and squadrons to directorates, divisions and branches.The event occurred on the 59th anniversary of the AEDC dedication by President Harry Truman,

  • Enhanced CFD capabilities put AEDC on cutting edge

    Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been around for years now, but recent advances in hardware and computer codes are helping make Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) among the leaders in this scientific field.Dr. Ralph Jones, branch manager of Aerospace Testing Alliance's (ATA)

  • Command implements re-structuring plan

    Air Force Materiel Command officials started implementing the command's re-structuring plan June 30, officially moving most AFMC acquisition organizations from wings, groups and squadrons to directorates, divisions and branches.The move follows an Air Force senior leadership decision to standardize