Edwards AFB News

  • Upcoming fitness challenges

    The 412th Medical Group’s Health Promotions office has some fitness events on the horizon. A fitness dash will be held Sept. 14 at 7 a.m. Those interested can meet up at the Rosburg Fitness Center. The run will take place on fitness center’s trail. Participants can participate alone or as a team.

  • 416th FLTS testers meet with Auto GCAS survivor

    Test pilots and engineers from the 416th Flight Test Squadron had the chance to meet face-to-face with one of the squadron’s success stories Aug. 25.   The group met with an allied nation pilot trainee who returned home alive after he experienced a g-force-induced loss of consciousness and his

  • A visit to Walt Disney Imaginerring's Center of Innovation

    412th Test Wing Innovation Team member Jessica Benveniste organized the most recent Innovation Team field trip - a visit to Walt Disney Imagineering's research and development facility in Glendale, California, July 20.  For the sake of rumor control, let’s be clear, no one got paid to visit

  • Recent aircraft arresting system overhaul comes in handy

    A mobile aircraft arresting system, or MAAS, unit that was recently overhauled by the Air Force Civil Engineer Center's Civil Engineer Maintenance Inspection and Repair Team, or CEMIRT, was put to good use in an F-35A Joint Strike Fighter aircraft arresting system capability test recently at Edwards

  • Marine F-35 Operational Tests increases combat capability

    Three F-35B aircraft and 75 U.S. Marines from Marine Operational Test & Evaluation Squadron 1 F-35B Detachment at Edwards Air Force Base , CA, along with 21 test personnel from the JSF Operational Test Team at Edwards deployed to Eglin AFB, FL., from August 9 to September 1, 2016  to complete

  • Good to go

    412th MDG gets 36-month accreditation

  • KC-135 Stratotanker turns 60

    Units around the Air Force wished happy birthday to an old friend Aug. 31. The KC-135 Stratotanker turned 60 years old this August. Members of the 418th Flight Test Squadron took some time to gather and commemorate the aerial tanker that has served the Air Force all these years.   Lt. Col. Eric

  • Edwards sergeant honored at annual AFSA convention

    Tech. Sgt. Michael Burd, 412th Mission Support Group, was honored with three awards at the annual Air Force Sergeants Association  Professional Airmen's Conference and International Convention held Aug. 22 - 24 in San Antonio, Texas.Burd was recognized with the 2015 AFSA International Member of the