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Joe Coblish, head of the projects group at Tunnel 9, examines the model of the Orion crew exploration vehicle installed in the facility’s hypersonic tunnel for aerothermal and aerodynamic testing. (U.S. Air Force photo)


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Joe Coblish, head of the projects group at Tunnel 9, examines the model of the Orion crew exploration vehicle installed in the facility’s hypersonic tunnel for aerothermal and aerodynamic testing. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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The reactivation of the von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility Wind Tunnel D is nearing completion after approximately 40 years of dormancy. The project was led by the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the first research activity at Tunnel D is then expected to occur later this year. (U.S. Air Force photo/Bradley Hicks)
Dr. Jerrod Hofferth, the Air Force Research Laboratory technical lead on the Tunnel D reactivation project, discusses the operations of the von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility Wind Tunnel D. The reactivation of the wind tunnel at Arnold Air Force Base is nearing completion after approximately 40 years of dormancy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Bradley Hicks) (This image was manipulated by obscuring badges for security purposes)
Dr. Jerrod Hofferth, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s technical lead on the Tunnel D reactivation project, points out the Tunnel D flexible plate nozzle. The reactivation of von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility Wind Tunnel D at Arnold Air Force Base is nearing completion after approximately 40 years of dormancy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Bradley Hicks) (This image was manipulated by obscuring badges for security purposes)
The reactivation of the von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility Wind Tunnel D is nearing completion after approximately 40 years of dormancy. Here, the Tunnel D flexible plate nozzle contours are adjusted manually using twelve jack screws on the top and bottom surfaces. (Courtesy photo)
This new 20-ton 20-202 bridge crane was installed at the Propulsion Wind Tunnel Facility to replace the original bridge crane, which was installed in the early 1950s. The AEDC Propulsion Wind Tunnel management, AEDC Test Operations and Sustainment contractor National Aerospace Solutions, the Arnold Air Force Base Contracting Office and the Arnold Civil Engineering Branch's SABER Contractor, SDVE, LLC, headed the acquirement of the new crane in an effort to avoid long downtime periods and impacts to PWT operations. (AEDC photo)
Pictured left to right are AEDC Woman’s Club members Kelly Doyle, Karen Todaro, Suzie Schultz, and speaker and artist Tracy H. Sugg with her sculpture and Hudson River School style oil painting at the AEDCWC meeting Sept. 1 at the Arnold Lakeside Club. Sugg’s sculptures and bronze monuments can be viewed on her website www.tracyHsugg.com. (Photo provided)
An AEDC craftsman applies adhesive to bond foam seal to a spacer for one of the axial flow compressors used to run the large wind tunnels at AEDC. A two-man Blade Shop has been heading up the repair of the rotor blades and spacers for the axial flow compressors in the AEDC Propulsion Wind Tunnel facility. (Photo provided)
To show its size, an AEDC craftsman stands beside compressor blades in the bell mouth of one of the Propulsion Wind Tunnel facility compressors. The Complex has a Blade Shop that leads repair of the rotor blades and spacers for the compressors in PWT. (Photo provided)
Temperature sensors and transducers are fabricated and installed on test models in the Aero-thermal Measurements Lab (ATML) at AEDC. ATML staff Randall Moon, Annette Painter and Stuart Coulter, pictured left to right, view heat flux sensors and model hardware through microscopes used in the lab. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
This is an example of one of the models instrumented with heat flux sensors in the Aero-thermal Measurements Lab. The lab supports testing of thermal protection systems, material sample ablation, boundary layer transition and roughness effects, and protuberance heating. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
The compact design and 90 degree offset of the new bulkhead feedthrough assembly saves valuable space inside each enclosure. (Photo provided)
The feedthrough assemblies for the Test Article Control System (TACS) and Data Acquisition System (DAS) used at the 16-foot transonic (16T) wind tunnel were recently replaced, saving AEDC more than $1 million. Pictured is a new feedthrough undergoing vacuum testing in the Space Systems Test Facility (SSTF) Lab at AEDC. (Photo provided)