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Bob Walker, Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s (AEDC) civil engineering branch technical director, plays guitar with AEDC colleagues at the Arnold Lakeside Center First Friday Jam Night. (Photo provided by Bob Walker) Walker reminisces about his AEDC family and career
Many people leave their homes and families most mornings to join another family of sorts - their colleagues at work.After 33 years, Bob Walker, Arnold Engineering Development Complex's (AEDC) civil engineering branch technical director, is retiring.During his time at AEDC he has left his family at home to work with an AEDC family he calls
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2012
Britt Covington A Covington future here and there
The future is "still bright" according to Britt Covington, Arnold Engineering Development Complex's (AEDC) executive director, whose future is with another assignment at Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, Robins, AFB, Ga.Covington will become the new technical director at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex beginning Dec. 18.As he departs, he
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2012
A new science fiction thriller book, “Resurrect,” written by retired AEDC Navy commander David Stevens, is the first in a trilogy. The book will be available in bookstores Nov. 1. Retired AEDC Navy commander releases sci-fi thriller
Will the world end December 2012 as the Mayans predicted?No one knows.But David Stevens, a retired AEDC Navy commander, doesn't see the end the way the Mayans predicted it.Stevens has written a science fiction thriller book, "Resurrect," which explores the possibility of an apocalypse based on real world threats.In Stevens' view, real world threats
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2012
In February, Capt. Chuck McNiel, an aeropropulsion test technology program lead with Arnold Engineering Development Center’s (AEDC) 649th Test Systems Squadron, showed Air Force Chief Scientist Dr. Werner Dahm the J85 engine being used to test instrumentation at the Propulsion Research Facility on the campus of UTSI. Captain McNiel is the first AEDC military member to be selected for Test Pilot School since Captain Carmen Evans left for the school in 2005. Captain McNiel’s class will have 10 pilots, 10 engineers and two navigators. While at the school, he will fly in numerous trainer, fighter, bomber and other types of aircraft learning experimental test techniques in preparation for conducting flight tests on new and legacy Air Force aircraft. (Photo by David Housch) AEDC captain is bound for Air Force Test Pilot School
At 29, Capt. Chuck McNiel knows a lot about being a student, having spent much of his adult life as one. In 2007, he put his academically honed engineering skills to practical use as Arnold's aeropropulsion test technology program lead with the 649th Test Systems Squadron. He has enjoyed his time at Arnold, but Captain McNiel will leave Arnold
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2009
Pixy Morgan Pixy Morgan - a life steeped in history, family and place
Pixy Morgan was captivated by her paternal grandfather's excitement after learning some family history second-hand from a relative who had read the account in a family history book. Morgan's curiosity was piqued and a life-long passion began. "I got the book through interlibrary loan, read it and saw the information my grandfather was told wasn't
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2009
Master Sgt. Harold Jones Jones earns command award
Master Sgt. Harold Jones, Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) Command Post performance evaluation chief, has won the Air Force Materiel Command Unit Level, Command Post Senior Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year award. Sergeant Jones was recognized for his work in AEDC's Operations Center. "Master Sgt. Jones is a consummate professional
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2009
Dr. Wim Ruyten, a physicist with Euclidean Optics Inc., at Arnold Engineering Development Center, trains on his bicycle for the “Itching for a Cure: Road to Chicago” fundraising challenge, organized by the PSC Partners Seeking a Cure foundation. Dr. Ruyten plans to ride his bicycle from Tullahoma to Chicago, the site of the fifth annual PSC Conference during the week and a half prior to the conference (April 23 – May 1) to draw attention to the disease. (Photo provided) Dr. Wim Ruyten's journey is a ride for life
Dr. Wim Ruyten's life changed abruptly and dramatically when he was in the midst of a productive career at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in 2004. For 10 years he had shrugged off routine lab results showing he had elevated liver enzymes. The doctors couldn't find a definitive cause and Dr. Ruyten, a physicist with AEDC's mission
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2009
Capt. Matt Laubacher recently returned to Arnold Engineering Development Center from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. While he was deployed, he had the opportunity to interact with the Afghans. Here, he gives an Afghan child, from whom he purchased items at the local bazaar, a Sesame Street T-shirt his mother sent him while at predeployment training in Wisconsin. (Photo provided) Airman passes on experience from Afghanistan
Driving conditions constantly kept Capt. Matt Laubacher on his toes as he traveled in convoys around the country. Most of the convoys he went on were short, but always stressful. Approximately a dozen car bombs detonated in Kabul during the six months he was stationed there. Captain Laubacher, Arnold Engineering Development Center Financial Plans,
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2009
Default Air Force Logo Macon honored with 'Franklin County Finest' firefighter award
Steve Macon, crew chief and Emergency Medical Technician-IV with the Arnold Engineering Development Center Fire Department, has been named Franklin County's Finest Fireman for 2009. Macon has been volunteering at the Winchester Fire Department since 1976. He became a full-time fireman in 1980 and began his career at AEDC in 1987. "I am honored and
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2009
Default Air Force Logo Campbell earns achievement award in emergency services
An Arnold Engineering Development Center firefighter has received state level recognition. Wade Campbell, Emergency Medical Service safety officer for AEDC Fire and Emergency Services, has received the Tennessee Ambulance Service Associations Tommy Erwin Lifetime Achievement Award for 2009. The Tommy Erwin Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to
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2009
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