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C-5M wings help AEDC team soar to win AIAA Special Award

Pictured here is the C-5M Super Galaxy model in Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s (AEDC) 16-foot Transonic Wind Tunnel. The model is a pink color as a result of AEDC’s application of Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) before the test was conducted. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC's Andrew Fist wins first place at the Masters Division of the 64th AIAA Southeaster Regional Conference

Pictured above, from left to right, are Dimitrios A. Kakavelakis, III, Dr. Joseph Majdalani, UTSI’s H.H. Arnold Chair of Excellence in Advanced Propulsion and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and AEDC’s Andrew Fist. A technical paper authored by Fist and Majdalani took first place at the recent Masters Division of the 64th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics [AIAA] Southeastern Regional Conference in Raleigh, N.C. A technical paper authored by Kakavelakis and Majdalani took second place in the same competition. (Photo provided)

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AEDC's Dr. Don Malloy is recipient of prestigious technical AFMC award

Dr. Don Malloy

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AEDC Wind Tunnel upgrade improves flexible nozzle accuracy and reliability

ATA Mission Support Department construction manager Dusty Kirkham conducts calibration tests on the new roll mechanism that will be used at AEDC in the Propulsion Wind Tunnel’s four foot transonic wind tunnel, 4T. The roll mechanism which supports the sting, or test support arm, and the test article provides the ability to roll the test item during a test and handle higher loads of a test requirement. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC Wind Tunnel upgrade improves flexible nozzle accuracy and reliability

Keith Gipson (right) and Dennis O’Dear (behind the actuators), both ATA outside machinists, install newly designed and fabricated nozzle actuators in the Propulsion Wind Tunnel’s four foot transonic wind tunnel, 4T at AEDC. The actuators are electromechanically driven ball-screw jacks which move the flexible top and bottom plates in the 4T tunnel closer together providing variable Mach numbers or wind speeds. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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Norwegian Defense staff member visits AEDC

Jon Ulv Deglum, a captain with the Norwegian Defense Staff, visited AEDC April 16. Deglum is a member of a six-person Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE) team visiting the Tullahoma area for five days as part of a four-week visit to Tennessee. Rotary’s GSE program is designed for vocation and cultural exchange. Pictured here from left is Don Miller, AEDC chief of police; Pat Eagan, ATA mission support director; Deglum and Rick Trull, AEDC emergency services manager. Greg Sandlin (not shown), an ATA engineer and Tullahoma Rotary Club member escorted Deglum during his visit. (Photo by Greg Sandlin)

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AEDC team members prepare for a future in engineering

AEDC Engineers Billy Stack, left, and Nathan Sindorf, right, poses for a picture with Jacobs’ President Craig Martin while attending the global Jacobs Future Weekend event in Texas last month. (Photo provided)

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AEDC team members prepare for a future in engineering

AEDC Engineers Nathan Sindorf and Billy Stack participated in a Jacobs Future Weekend with 191 other engineers, shown in this photo, from Jacobs organizations across the world. (Photo provided)

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AEDC's Rick Trull graduates from prestigious FBI National Academy course

From left, FBI Director Robert Mueller presents Rick Trull, AEDC’s emergency services manager, a certificate for completing the FBI National Academy Program course in March. (Photo provided)

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Everett completes training at the Southeastern Command and Leadership Academy

Lt. Dave Everett of the Arnold Police Department recently received a certificate for completing the Southeastern Command and Leadership Academy (SECLA), a law enforcement leadership development program hosted by the UT Law Enforcement Innovation Center and the criminal justice department at UT Chattanooga.

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AERODYNAMIC AND PROPULSION TEST UNIT FACTSHEET

The Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit combustion air heater. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AERODYNAMIC AND PROPULSION TEST UNIT FACTSHEET

An Aerospace Testing Alliance outside machinist 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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AEDC outside machinist Ricky Taylor loves the ride

Ricky Taylor, an ATA outside machinist at AEDC’s Engine Test Facility (J-Side Turbine test area), stands by his Harley Davidson Sportster at the beginning of a shift on base. Early last February, he made a commitment to ride his motorcycle to and from work every day for one year, unless safety concerns stood in his way. Recently he successfully reached that goal. (Photo by Philip Lorenz III)

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ATA team receives NASA award

The inset photo is a frontal close-up view of the rake behind the right inboard engine. (NASA photo provided)

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ATA team receives NASA award

The NASA Alternative Aviation Fuel Experiment-II (AAFEXII) AEDC team tested NASA’s DC-8 aircraft CFM-56 engines for emissions using a rake positioned behind the right inboard engine. (NASA/Tom Tschida)

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ATA team receives NASA award

Pictured left to right are Steven Lepley, machinist; Brad Besheres, machinist; Dr. Robert Howard, AAFEXII project lead engineer; Jennifer Harvey, technical specialist; Roy Carroll, instrumentation specialist; Bob Boswell, test support supervisor (accepting on behalf of the AEDC Model and Machine Shop), Larry Stanford, test support supervisor (accepting on behalf of the AEDC Model and Machine Shop); Danny Catalano, senior associate engineer; and Gary Storey, technology instrument technician. Recipients not pictured are Katie Stephens, engineer/scientist; Brad Winkleman, engineering specialist; and Becky Combs, engineering technician. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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AEDC implements new identification system and base entry procedures

Officer Jim Taylor operates the new Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) as ATA employee MaryBeth Barlow enters the AEDC main gate. The DBIDS scans an individual’s Common Access Card (CAC) or similar DOD credentials when they enter the base security gates. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)

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AEDC implements new identification system and base entry procedures

: Officer Jim Taylor operates the new Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) as ATA employee MaryBeth Barlow enters the AEDC main gate. The DBIDS scans an individual’s Common Access Card (CAC) or similar DOD credentials when they enter the base security gates. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)

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AEDC's Crawford Parrish aims high

Crawford Parrish Sr., AEDC's acquisition program manager and a verger at St. Barnabas Church in Tullahoma, confers with this wife Fran before an evening service.

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AEDC’s Rob Merrill presents a Technical Excellence Seminar on ‘tracking small UAVs in an urban environment’

Far right, Dr. Ralph Jones, branch manager of Aerospace Testing Alliance's (ATA) Technology Analysis Branch at AEDC, asks Rob Merrill a question after the young aerospace engineer’s recent technical seminar presentation on a 6-month project he undertook with the 2012 Commander’s Challenge. (Photo by Philip Lorenz III)

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