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AEDC Team members use special motion camera to troubleshoot excessive vibrations

Landon Culver, an Arnold Engineering Development Complex Condition-Based Maintenance craftsman, sets up a Motion Amplification Camera, March 4, 2020, to help identify the source of excessive vibrations in machinery in the C Plant of the Engine Test Facility at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

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AEDC Team members use special motion camera to troubleshoot excessive vibrations

On March 4, Arnold Engineering Development Complex Condition-Based Maintenance craftsmen Nathan Dotson, right, and Landon Culver place vibration reduction pads under the feet of a tripod holding a Motion Amplification Camera, while setting up the camera to help identify the source of excessive vibrations in machinery in the C Plant of the Engine Test Facility at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. The vibration reduction pads help stabilize the camera to minimize the influence of vibrations through physical contact on the video being captured. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

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AEDC team members volunteer at Area 13 Special Olympics Spring Games

Col. Charles Roberts, chief of the AEDC Test Support Division based at Arnold Air Force Base, addresses the athletes and supporters gathered May 2, 2019, for the Tennessee Area 13 Special Olympics Spring Games at Tullahoma High School. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

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AEDC team members volunteer at Area 13 Special Olympics Spring Games

AEDC team member Master Sgt. Matt Krueger carries the U.S. flag as fellow team member Technical Sgt. Richard Griffin waves, both stationed at Arnold Air Force Base, to lead the parade of the opening ceremonies of the Tennessee Area 13 Special Olympics Spring Games May 2, 2019 at Tullahoma High School. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

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AEDC team members volunteer at Area 13 Special Olympics Spring Games

AEDC team members Brian Allen, left, and Mark Jenkins, right, assist Sean Couch, a Tullahoma Skills Development Services employee, in maneuvering athlete Christie Tippy Pittman and her wheelchair into the track at Tullahoma High School May 2, 2019, for the Tennessee Area 13 Special Olympics 2019 Spring Games. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

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AEDC team members witness car wreck, take action

Casey Culver

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AEDC team members witness car wreck, take action

Greg Garner

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AEDC team members witness car wreck, take action

1st Lt. Michael Hareld

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AEDC team puts new small diameter bomb to the test

David Anderson, ATA test project engineer, inspects the 1/20-scale models of an F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft and a sting-mounted Small Diameter Bomb (SDB II), during a break in the ongoing store separation test for the new weapon’s development phase trials in the aerodynamic wind tunnel 4T of the Propulsion Wind Tunnel (PWT) facility. The test marks the second time the SDB II has been tested at Arnold. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC team supports ‘Relay for Life’

AEDC Team Remember offered opportunities for Coffee County Relay for Life participants to smash the team’s car as a fundraiser at the Coffee County Fairgrounds last month. (Photo provided)

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AEDC team supports new measurement capability for turbine blades and vanes

This photo of a phosphor-coated dual vane section of a gas turbine engine, is positioned downstream of the AEDC J85 engine at the University of Tennessee Space Institute Propulsion Research Facility. The luminescence produced by the green laser beam and projected onto the phosphor-coated surface (left) is used to measure surface temperature. (Photo provided)

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AEDC team supports new measurement capability for turbine blades and vanes

Thermographic phosphor techniques were demonstrated in the exhaust flow of an AEDC J85 afterburning engine at the University of Tennessee Space Institute Propulsion Research Facility. This photo shows the test article mounted behind the J85 engine. (Photo provided)

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AEDC team supports Relay for Life

Shown left to right receiving massages are AEDC employees Rhonda Ward and Staff Sgt. Oscar Samame, and Team REMEMBER volunteer Amber Wolfe. Massage instructor Colt Sain (standing, left) along with massage therapist graduates Brandy Moore (standing, center) and Renee Geiger, from the Georgia Career Institute, McMinnville donated massage services as a fundraiser. (Photo provided)

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AEDC team supports testing of CASTOR® 30XL rocket motor ahead of Antares flight testing

An Alliant Techsystems, Inc.'s (ATK) CASTOR® 30XL developmental rocket motor recently underwent testing in AEDC’s J-6 Large Rocket Motor Testing Facility. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC team supports testing of CASTOR® 30XL rocket motor ahead of Antares flight testing

From left, AEDC’s Mike Mills, an outside machinist, David Amonette, a boilermaker, and Barry Long, an electrician, position the ATK CASTOR® 30XL rocket motor into place for simulated altitude static testing at AEDC’s J-6 Large Rocket Motor Testing facility. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC team supports testing of GE engine augmentor rig in J85 facility

Prior to a static performance test at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) Propulsion Research Facility, Brad Besheres, an outside machinist in the ATA Technology Branch’s instrumentation and diagnostics group, is inspecting AEDC’s upgraded J85 Augmentor rig coupled to GE’s developmental augmentor assembly, all of which is mounted on the facility’s T-6 thrust frame. The test has two phases, with the first to characterize and evaluate the augmentor’s durability and mission performance. The second phase focuses on instrumentation and diagnostics project activities. These focus on various measurement techniques (optical tail pipe camera stereoscopic imaging and gas sampling techniques) that can be applied to gas turbine engines. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC team tackles 56 million gallon-sized job

ATA’s Test and Facility Support crew supervisor John Berlan and ATA Outside Machinist John Richardson stand on the west bank of the secondary reservoir watching as a major repair project was underway on the 56-million gallon capacity reservoir. (Photo by Philip Lorenz)

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AEDC team tests F135 initial production engine

From left, Greg Crabtree, ATA outside machinist, and Jeff Dodd, ATA project manager on the test, stand in front of an F135 engine undergoing validation and altitude development testing in AEDC’s altitude test cell C-1. The F135 engine is a Conventional Take Off and Landing and Carrier Variant (CTOL/CV) that has been designated for low rate initial production to the U.S. government for the F-35 Lightning II program. The engine has been modified and improved based on findings from the F-35 flight and ground test program. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC team tests F136 Joint Strike Fighter engine

From left, Jeff Farris and Mark Clement, ATA outside machinists, conduct a physical inspection on a GE/Rolls-Royce F136 engine undergoing altitude development and performance testing in AEDC’s Engine Test Facility J-2 test cell. The engine is the alternate propulsion system for the three versions of the F135 Joint Strike Fighter; the Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL) variant, Carrier Variant (CV) and Short Take-Off and Landing (STOVL) airframe for the U.S. Marine Corps, British Navy and Air Force. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC team tests F136 Joint Strike Fighter engine

From left, Jeff Farris and Mark Clement, ATA outside machinists, conduct a physical inspection on a GE/Rolls-Royce F136 engine undergoing altitude development and performance testing in AEDC’s Engine Test Facility J-2 test cell. The engine is the alternate propulsion system for the three versions of the F135 Joint Strike Fighter; the Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL) variant, Carrier Variant (CV) and Short Take-Off and Landing (STOVL) airframe for the U.S. Marine Corps, British Navy and Air Force. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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