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AEDC performs mission critical tests on F-35 model

Chris Powell, a Lockheed Martin engineer, inspects the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) model during a break in aerodynamics load testing in Propulsion Wind Tunnel’s 16-foot transonic wind tunnel. Arnold Engineering Development Center has played a key role in the development of the multi-service, multi-national JSF conducting aerodynamic and weapons separation wind tunnel testing as well as ongoing multi-year $200 million test program for the aircraft’s Pratt & Whitney F135 engine. The center is also scheduled to test alternate the Rolls-Royce/GE F136 engine.
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AEDC performs mission critical tests on F-35 model

J.D. Roberts, a Lockheed Martin engineer, inspects the JSF model during a break in aerodynamics load testing in the Propulsion Wind Tunnel’s 16-foot transonic wind tunnel at Arnold Engineering Development Center.
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Model checkout

Aerospace Testing Alliance Outside Machinist Carey Wofford checks the movement of the vertical stabilizers of an F-35 Lightning II test article at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., during a model change prior to resuming an aerodynamics test. (Air Force photo Rick Goodfriend)
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Check it out

First Lt. Ezra Caplan and Aerospace Testing Alliance Senior Project Engineer Charlie Smith examine a 1/12th scale model of the Navy variant of the F-35 Lightning II during a break in the final pre-production aerodynamics testing done on all F-35 variants here at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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Level Plate

The "level plate," mounted in front of the vertical stabilizers on this F-35C 1/12th scale wind tunnel model, is installed during configuration changes to mount external instrumentation used to verify the model pitch and roll position during testing here at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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Inspecting Gadgets Before Test

The model undergoes aerodynamics loads testing.
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Inspecting Gadgets Before Test

Jody Nunley, an ATK-GASL, Inc., craftsman, inspects a 12 percent scale model of the Navy’s version of the F-35 Lightning II at AEDC’s 16-foot transonic wind tunnel.
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