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Guest speaker

Thomas Morgenfeld, chief test pilot for the X35 Joint Strike Fighter Program.

Guest speaker praises Arnold AFB, award nominees and winners

Dan Clark, guest speaker for the annual awards banquet, addresses a full crowd of military, DoD civilians, ATA contractor employees and community leaders. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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Hamin' it up

Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Budget Analyst Carol Pratt, call sign KI4QWM, waits with a notebook and pen for a response to a call she made to another ham radio operator in Alabama. Pratt joined other ‘hams,’ including her husband, Harvey, at the communication center of the Coffee County Emergency Management Agency in Manchester during the annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in June. (Photo provided)

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Handing over the reigns

Gen. Donald Hoffman, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, presents Arnold Engineering Development Center’s flag to Col. Michael Panarisi as the colonel assumes the command of Arnold July 13. (Photo by David Housch)

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Hands-On Science Center Board selects Oakley to lead Arnold AFB STEM program

Olga Oakley is the new director of the Arnold Air Force Base STEM program.

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Hands-On Science Center Board selects Oakley to lead Arnold AFB STEM program

Olga Oakley shows children how to use Colby, the robotic coding mouse, during a program at the Coffee County Library. The Hands-On Science Center Board of Directors recently hired Oakley to direct the Arnold Air Force Base STEM program.

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Hangin' it up

Peter MacNichols will retire from Arnold Engineering Development Center after 36 years on the job.

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Happy Birthday

Air National Guard Band of the Smoky Mountains members Staff Sgt. Michelle McGill and Senior Airmen Elisa Wardeska and Laurie Reeves sing during the Air Force's 60th anniversary celebration in McMinnville, Tenn., June 27.

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Hard impact

Brian Roebuck, an Aerospace Testing Alliance test engineer for AEDC’s Hypervelocity Impact Range, holds a section of an aluminum target plate – showing an impact crater created by a hypervelocity projectile that struck the plate during a test. ATA is the support contractor for the base. (Photo by David Housch)

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Hartman awarded NDIA AF Civilian Tester of the Year

Joshua Hartman (left), an aeropropulsion test engineer with the AEDC Air Breathing Engine Test Branch, is presented the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Air Force Civilian Tester of the Year award by Devin Cate, director of Test and Evaluation, U.S. Air Force. (Photo provided)

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Heading over the pond

Lt. Col. L. Najeeb Ahmed

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Heart attack victim wants to serve as example to others

ATA employee Steve Medley is back at work in AEDC’s X-ray lab after a heart attack in January sidelined him for about three weeks. Medley’s doctors told him smoking cigarettes for the last 30 years contributed to a blocked artery in his heart. He has since quit smoking. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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Heart attack victim wants to serve as example to others

Nurse practitioner Jessica McNeese gives ATA employee Steve Medley a checkup at the ATA/CORE Dispensary Feb. 25. Medley credits McNeese with saving his life, after she detected symptoms that Medley had a heart attack. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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Heavy lifting

(Left) Tech. Sgt. Mike Brumer, a Senior Munitions Inspector with Nashville’s 118th Fight Wing, operates a crane during an engine change on a C-130 at Bagram Air Base during a recent deployment to Afghanistan. He is Aerospace Testing Alliance’s Hazardous Material Operations Manager for the Arnold Engineering Development Center in middle Tennessee. (Photo provided)

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High mach

Aerospace Testing Alliance Outside Machinist Everett Fulmer inspects the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Falcon Combined-cycle Engine Technology (FaCET) scramjet test article in the center’s Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit test cell prior to a test. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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Historic AEDC agreement

The Air Engineering Metal Trades Council (AETC) and United Services Associates, Inc. (USAI) were successful in negotiating a collective bargaining agreement for the next three years, beginning Oct. 1, 2007 through Sept. 30, 2010. The agreement was ratified with a 100 percent vote for the contract by USAI Union membership, a first in the history of the collective bargaining process at AEDC. Standing from left to right are: Jeff Stewart, USAI Laborers International Union of America, laborers local union no. 848; Kenneth Gipson, ATA international Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local No. 327; JD Sons, ATA International Union of Operating Engineers, Local Union No. 917; Martha Otwell, USAI finance administrator and Carol Duke, USAI human resources. Front from left to right: David Garner, ATA president of AETC and Coleman March, USAI, AEDC project manager. (Photo provided)

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Historic dedication

Pictured from left to right: Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Historian David Hiebert, Dr. Richard Hallion, former Air Force Historian, Steven Noneman, mission manager for the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and AEDC Commander Col. Art Huber stand in front of the bronzed-plaque idenitfying AEDC as an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics aerospace historic site. (Photo by David Housch)

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Historic test

Pictured here in 1983, from left, are Bob Ansley, Col. Matsumiya and Lt. Geoffrey Lum, Arnold Engineering Development Center's project manager, examine the XF-3 engine prior to a test run in AEDC’s T-1 jet engine test cell. Colonel Matsumiya was the Japanese Air Self Defense Force project manager for the second phase of the first test series. (File photo)

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Historical view

Jim Johnson stands near the 4,000 year-old Walls of Jericho. (Photo provided)

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Holt “deploys” safety in Iraq

Command Sgt. Maj. Tracy McDow (L) and Lt. Col. Warner Holt pause in front of the sign marking their headquarters in Northern Iraq, July 12, 2010. Colonel Holt was garrison commander for Contingency Operating Sites Marez and Diamondback during deployment of his unit in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (Photo provided)

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