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NFAC Team conducts 'game-changing technology test for NASA

This is an artist's concept of NASA's Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) showing the atmospheric entry of a spacecraft. (NASA Artwork)
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AEDC-managed NFAC recently site of unique future generation aircraft test

A 1:11 scale model of a futuristic airplane is tested in the world's second-largest wind tunnel at the NFAC at Moffett Field, Calif. The plane would hold 150 passengers and is being called the next 737. Located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, the NFAC is managed and operated by the U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center. (Photo by Mike Anderson)
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AEDC-managed NFAC recently site of unique future generation aircraft test

The plane itself would be capable of flying at about .8 mach speed, or about 600 miles per hour (Photo by Mike Anderson).
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AEDC-managed NFAC recently site of unique future generation aircraft test

Eric Paciano (left) and Jonathan Lichtwardt (right), both aerospace engineering graduate students at Cal Poly, prepare the AMELIA model airplane for a test. "If you go to SFO (San Francisco International Airport) you're not going to see a single plane that looks like this," Lichtwardt said. AMELIA is still about 20 years away from becoming a reality. The model is made of aluminum and steel with a 10-foot wingspan. (Photo by Mike Anderson)
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AEDC-managed NFAC recently site of unique future generation aircraft test

Back in one of two control rooms at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC), Austin Paige, an electrician at the facility, operates equipment while AMELIA (Advanced Model for Extreme Lift and Improved Aeroacoustics) gets blasted with air inside the wind tunnel. (Photos by Mike Anderson, courtesy of NBC Bay Area News)
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AEDC machinists create B-52 in Model Shop

Machinist Derrick Burton hand-works or “blends” around the pod where an engine will be attached to the B-52 model. (Photo by Philip Lorenz)
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AEDC machinists create B-52 in Model Shop

Machinist R.D. Green files away tooling marks on a wing of the B-52 being built in AEDC’s Model Shop May 22. (Photo by Philip Lorenz)
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AEDC sets record with largest aircraft model to conduct B-52H store separation test

Pictured is the 10 percent scale B-52H model in AEDC’s 16T between store separation test runs. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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AEDC sets record with largest aircraft model to conduct B-52H store separation test

From left, J. T. Thompson, ATA captive trajectory system project engineer, discusses the B-52H model with Gary Cunningham, ATA lead outside machinist, in AEDC’s 16T between store separation test runs. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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AEDC sets record with largest aircraft model to conduct B-52H store separation test

Paul Haas, B-52 Program Office, Tinker AFB, Druana Sanders, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc, and Don Arrowood, B-52 Program Office, Tinker AFB, examine the B-52H model’s stores in AEDC’s 16T between store separation test runs. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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AEDC sets record with largest aircraft model to conduct B-52H store separation test

Paul Haas, B-52 Program Office, Tinker AFB, Druana Sanders, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc, and Don Arrowood, B-52 Program Office, Tinker AFB, discuss the testing of the B-52H model in AEDC’s 16T between store separation test runs. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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AEDC sets record with largest aircraft model to conduct B-52H store separation test

From right, former AEDC Commander Col. Michael Panarisi showed visiting AFMC Commander Gen. Donald Hoffman and his wife, Jacki, a 10-percent scale wing section of a B-52H Stratofortress test article, the largest model ever fabricated at AEDC for a ground test. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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B-52 model brought to life by machine programmers

Joel Gregory, an ATA numerical control programmer in AEDC’s Model Shop, explains how he programs more than a dozen different machines to cut chunks of metal into parts that made up the B-52 model used in store separation testing at AEDC. (Photo by Philip Lorenz III)
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AEDC’s NFAC tests Speed Agile demonstrator

Caption for 110715-F-UU070-014: From left, AFMC commander Gen. Donald Hoffman and AEDC’s National Full-scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC) Test Director Patrick Goulding II get a close look at a 23-percent scale model of the Speed Agile technology demonstrator that recently underwent aerodynamic testing in the world’s largest wind tunnel at NFAC in Mountain View, Calif. (Photo provided)
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Over 60 years, AEDC wind tunnels have seen a wide variety of work

A Lockheed martin engineer inspects a model of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II during a break in aerodynamics load testing in AEDC's 16-foot transonic wind tunnel in 2006. (file photo)
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Over 60 years, AEDC wind tunnels have seen a wide variety of work

This 30--foot compressor rotor was installed in AEDC's 16-foot transonic wind tunnel Oct. 10, 1955. Today wind tunnel 16T is still used for a variety of tests.
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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 workers meeting challenge of returning wind tunnel to service

John England, left, inspects drawings specifying a total rebuild of a diffuser plate damaged in an equipment failure at AEDC’s Von Kármán Gas Dynamic Facility Wind Tunnel A. Boilermakers Michael Dickey and Jeff Moss repaired the plate by bending plates of steel almost two inches thick and welding massive plates of dissimilar metals. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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AEDC workers meeting challenge of returning wind tunnel to service

A diffuser plate from AEDC’s Von Kármán Gas Dynamic Facility Wind Tunnel A awaits some alignment work in the base’s Model Shop. Model Shop workers repaired the plates so the tunnel could be returned to service. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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AEDC workers meeting challenge of returning wind tunnel to service

Russell Arbuckle uses the AEDC Model Shop’s large gantry mill to correct distortion caused by welding on a diffuser plate from the Von Kármán Gas Dynamic Facility Wind Tunnel A as Joel Gregory and Larry Stanford look on. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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