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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)