AEDC researches possible modifications to C-5M Super Galaxy wings
Jim Crawford, an outside machinist with the Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) Flight Systems Operation and Maintenance branch, inspects a winglet on the wingtip of the C-5M Super Galaxy model during a break in testing in Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s (AEDC) 16-foot Transonic Wind Tunnel (16T). The model is a pink color as a result of AEDC’s application of Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) to it before the test was conducted. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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Posted: 11/14/2012
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AEDC researches possible modifications to C-5M Super Galaxy wings
Pictured here is the C-5M Super Galaxy model during a break in testing in Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s (AEDC) 16-foot Transonic Wind Tunnel (16T). The model’s coloring is a result of the purple LEDs used to illuminate the Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP). (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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Posted: 11/14/2012
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AEDC researches possible modifications to C-5M Super Galaxy wings
Marvin Sellers, a senior engineer with ATA’s Flight Systems Testing group, applies the base layer of Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) on a scale model of the Air Force’s C-5M Galaxy in AEDC’s 16-foot transonic wind tunnel prior to aerodynamic testing to validate two winglets with the goal of reducing drag, improving fuel efficiency and lowering operating costs. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)
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Posted: 11/14/2012
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Major upgrade project in AEDC’s propulsion wind tunnel complex reaches a milestone
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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Posted: 10/5/2012
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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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Posted: 8/21/2012
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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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Posted: 2/22/2012
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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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Posted: 2/22/2012
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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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Posted: 2/22/2012
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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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Posted: 2/22/2012
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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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Posted: 12/19/2011
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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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Posted: 12/19/2011
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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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Posted: 10/13/2011
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