AEDC at 75: ARO lands first AEDC contract

An Arnold Research Organization technician examines the Pye Wacket, an experimental lenticular-shaped air-to-air rocket developed by Convair, in a tunnel of the von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility at the Arnold Engineering Development Center in 1959. ARO was the first company awarded a contract to operate AEDC. The contract between ARO and the Air Force was signed June 29, 1950. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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