Edwards AFB News

  • ITEA Celebrates 2014 grant recipients

    The Antelope Valley Chapter of the International Test and Evaluation Association celebrated their 2014 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics grant recipients March 19. The group enjoyed Subway sandwiches in the Chapel One Annex and watched presentations by the honorees. This year's grant

  • DHS Girls Basketball ends season 24-2

    After a dominating run by the Desert Junior-Senior High School Girls Basketball team, their season finally came to an end last weekend in San Diego. The Scorpions made it to the California State Quarterfinals, the state's version of the Sweet 16. The team lost to San Diego's La Jolla Country Day

  • 412th TENG battles AFRL Det 7 to win volleyball championship

    After winning the 2013 Base Intramural Volleyball Championship, the Air Force Research Laboratory Detachment 7 team returned for a second year to defend their intramural title against the 412th Test Engineering Group at the Rosburg Fitness Center on Mar. 13. Although both the 412th TENG and AFRL Det

  • A day on the greens supports Edwards Emergency Relief Fund

    The 4th Annual First Sergeants Council Golf Tournament took place March 14 at Muroc Lake Golf Course. The competition, organized by Master Sgt. William Russell, 412th Security Forces Squadron, and Staff Sgt. Adam Shura, Air Force Test Center, brought 86 golfers to the course. All proceeds from the

  • Court martial announcement

    U.S. v. Bowen, a General Court-Martial, was held March 5 - 7 at the Edwards AFB court-house. Airman 1st Class Ellwood Bowen III, 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron, was charged with three specifications of aggravated assault, two specifications of assault consummated by a battery and one

  • SECAF James checks out F-35

    Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James shakes hands with Lt. Col. Mark Massaro, 461st Flight Test Squadron director of operations, after arriving at the Joint Strike Fighter Integrated Test Force March 7. She visited Edwards AFB for an F-35 Orientation visit where she was briefed on the test

  • Edwards Global Hawk gets second chance at life

    During a flight in May 2009, an Edwards RQ-4B Global Hawk Block 20 remotely piloted aircraft (tail number 2016) encountered a complete spoiler communication loss and had to execute an emergency landing on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base. During landing, the aircraft sustained major damage

  • Deployed father flies around the world to say "I love you" to son

    Desert High School Senior, Jordan Bella, was born at Edwards Air Force Base, in the days when the base still had a hospital. Jordan spent his kindergarten and first grade years in Germany before returning to Edwards for the second grade and every grade following. Just before entering his senior