Edwards AFB News

  • Boeing begins flight testing B-1 with new Link 16 communications

    The Boeing Company announced the start of flight tests for a B-1 Lancer bomber upgraded with new digital avionics for the aft cockpit, including a line-of-sight Link 16 data link. The B-1 Fully Integrated Data Link made its first flight test June 4 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.The four-hour

  • Boeing employee community fund sends military children to camp

    The Employees Community Fund at Boeing has awarded a grant to the Tiger Woods Learning Center for five students of military families from around Edwards Air Force Base to attend the Summer Academy Camp this July.The Summer Academy Camp is an opportunity for military children to attend a Science,

  • Boeing, 418th FLTS C-130 avionics mod program underway

    Since 2004, members of the 418th Flight Test Squadron's C-130 Avionics Modernization Program test team here have been actively working toward the first flight of the first modified airframe scheduled for late August.Selected aircrew members of the Edwards test team are currently attending two weeks

  • Bomber force prepares for new B-52 bomb bay upgrade testing

    Since the Air Force's decision in 2013 to increase the B-52H bomber fleet's effectiveness and versatility by increasing the aircraft's smart weapons capacity by over 50 percent, teams from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., Boeing and, now Edwards, have partnered up to begin developmental testing on the

  • Bomber Modular Acquisition System promotes “data independence”

    A chance meeting at an International Test & Evaluation Association workshop in 2017 has led to “data independence” utilizing the Bomber Modular Acquisition System developed by the 812th Aircraft Instrumentation Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

  • Boom! JROTC visits EOD

    Lancaster High School Air Force JROTC cadets visited Edwards Dec. 5. During their tour, the group visited EOD for an orientation and life support equipment demonstration. At the end of their visit to EOD, the group witnessed a demonstration of three and three-quarter pounds of C4 exploding at 600

  • Boom! NASA-Dryden asks base residents to lend ear for sonic boom study

    The NASA-Dryden Flight Research Center is calling upon base residents to lend a keen ear to the skies above Edwards and participate in an upcoming sonic boom research study.Commencing this fall, the NASA-sponsored study will gather data on individuals' attitudes toward aircraft noise, specifically

  • Boom! Winning! Contest winners receive free Dodgers tickets

    Jill Anderson, right, along with friend Chandra Lee, claims her complimentary Los Angeles Dodgers tickets from the Edwards Public Affairs Office, April 26. To celebrate Earth Day, Public Affairs hid parts of this year's Earth Day theme, "A Billion Acts of Green," at the Muroc Lake Golf Course,