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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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Just sittin' around

Christie LaPoint, an Aerospace Testing Alliance Emergency Operations Center controller, sits in Saddam Hussein’s throne in a lighter moment during her time in Iraq. (Photo provided)

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New boss

Col. Michael Panarisi, the 26th commander of Arnold Engineering Development Center, speaks to those attending Arnold’s change of command ceremony July 13. (Photo by David Housch)

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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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AEDC’s 718th Test Squadron settles into new home

From left: M. Britt Covington, Arnold Engineering Development Center’s (AEDC) executive director, joins AEDC Commander Col. Art Huber, Lt. Col. James Colebank, the 718th Test Squadron commander and Lt. Col. Saroya Follender, the 704th Civil Engineering Squadron commander in a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The event marked the 718th’s official move to Building 1088, the former DECADE nuclear weapons effects testing facility. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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VKF’s Tunnel A is up and running, again

Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Commander Col. Art Huber, third from left, presided over a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the von Kàrmàn Gas Dynamics Facility (VKF) Tunnel A July 1. The event marked a multi-year-long project to modernize the tunnel’s model injection and test article control systems. (From left) Other participants included Navy Cmdr. Steven Kroll, the deputy director of 704th Test Systems Group, 716th Test Squadron Commander Lt. Col. Vanessa Bond, Aerospace Testing Alliance Deputy General Manager Steve Pearson, Simon Choi, Arnold’s Air Force investment program manager, and ATA Flight Systems Group Lead for Investment Projects Frank Wonder.(Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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Jose Navarrete

Jose Navarrete

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NFAC engineer crosses borders to make a difference

Arnold Engineering Development Center’s National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex facility engineer Jose Navarrete poses for a photo with his “circle of friends” while in South America as a volunteer with the Jatun Sacha Foundation, a private Ecuadorian nonprofit, nongovernmental organization. (Photo provided)

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2009 AEDC Fellows

From left to right, Temple Bowling, Dr. Charles “Chad” Limbaugh and Dave Pickering are the newest Arnold Engineering Development Center Fellows. The three were inducted June 25. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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Guest speaker

Dr. Charles McQueary, former director of operational test and evaluation for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, speaks at the Arnold Engineering Development Center’s annual Fellows Banquet June 25. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

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Heading over the pond

Lt. Col. L. Najeeb Ahmed

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Senator visits White Oak Site

U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., stops for a photo with engineering students from the University of Maryland while visiting Arnold Engineering Development Center’s (AEDC) White Oak Site, located in Silver Spring, Md. The students work relevant problems associated with science and physics at Tunnel 9, and their contributions contribute towards advanced degrees. From left to right, Dan Marren, director of AEDC White Oak, Alex Bounitch, a junior majoring in aerospace engineering, Senator Cardin, Pratik Bhandari, a senior in the Aerospace Department, Colin Vandercreek, a graduate student in the Aerospace Department, and Brian Kwong, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. (Photo by Arnold Collier)

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Recycling center

From left, Robbie Evans, Bronson Kindermann and Stanley Hill bale a load of mixed paper at the base Services Recycling Center as part of the Arnold Engineering Development Center's Resource Recovery and Recycling Program. Evans, a base Services motor vehicle operator and lead of the three-man team, said recyclable paper, cardboard, plastic and aluminum is collected, sorted, packaged, stored and eventually sold to outside vendors. The money generated from the sales goes toward maintaining and sustaining the equipment needed for the recycling process, with some of the funds going into a non-appropriated account for base Service programs. (Photo by Philip Lorenz III)

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Dave Pickering

Dave Pickering will be inducted as an AEDC Lifetime Achievement Fellow at the AEDC Fellows Banquet June 25 at the Arnold Lakeside Club.

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Larry "Pappy" Phillips

Larry “Pappy” Phillips

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"Pappy" Phillips

Larry “Pappy” Phillips holds his turkey shoot gun that he designed a portion of in his spare time. (Photo provided)

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Temple Bowling

Temple Bowling will be inducted as an AEDC Lifetime Achievement Fellow at the AEDC Fellows Banquet June 25 at the Arnold Lakeside Club.

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Showcasing the service

Twenty-five civic leaders from the communities surrounding Arnold Air Force Base (AFB) toured Robins AFB, Ga., June 12 as a part of a Community Relations Tour, hosted by Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Commander Col. Art Huber. One of the stops at Robins AFB was a tour of an E-8C aircraft, also known as the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System or JSTARS. The flight crew of the E-8C showed the leaders the cockpit, crew stations and surveillance equipment of the extensively remanufactured and modified Boeing 707-300 series commercial airframe. (Photo provided)

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Galaxy of its own

Dave Nakayama, vice director, 559th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Robins Air Force Base’s Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (ALC), gives a brief on the C-5 Galaxy and the ALC sustainment mission to a group of civic leaders during a Community Relations Tour June 12. Nakayama was Arnold Engineering Development Center Commander Col. Art Huber’s boss when the colonel was assigned to the ALC. (Photo by David Donato)

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"Flying" high

Community Relations Tour attendant Phil Pritchard, president of Pritchard’s Distillery, Inc., is seen here “flying” the F-22A Raptor in the Lockheed Martin Marietta, Ga., assembly facility’s F-22 cockpit simulator. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin)

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