Edwards AFB News

  • Edwards volunteers help Young Eagles take flight

    Edwards volunteers helped Young Eagles get off the ground during the Experimental Aircraft Association's Lancaster Chapter 49 and Edwards Chapter 1000, first round of Young Eagles flights on Saturday at Fox Field in Lancaster, Calif. Twenty-eight young boys and girls showed up to try their hand at

  • Edwards walks, talks, celebrates values, life of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Team Edwards honored the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of celebratory events for both children and adults Jan. 11-12. This year's observance included a children's book reading at the Child Development Center, a celebratory walk, and culminated with a ceremony honoring the legacy of

  • Edwards warrior gives wife second chance at life

    Wedding vows are often recited and many times the true test of what a couple promises comes in the face of adversity, and how a couple works through those difficult times.For Kirt and Becki Brooks, a Team Edwards couple, their trial of adversity came when Becki was diagnosed with end stage kidney

  • Edwards water safety report to be released

    The report is out and the verdict is in, Edwards' tap water continues to be safe to drink, according to an annual report on water quality put out by 2nd Lt. Nadia Halim, 95th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, environmental element chief for Bioenvironmental.The report comes as no surprise to the

  • Edwards welcomes back Air Force’s first C-17

    The C-17 Globemaster III Integrated Test Force welcomed home Edwards' own C-17, called T-1, during a celebration at hangar 1623 here March 16. T-1 first came to Edwards on Sept. 15, 1991, as the Air Force's first test article for the C-17's initial flight testing. "The significance of T-1 is it was

  • Edwards welcomes new AFTC Command Chief

    Team Edwards welcomed Chief Master Sgt. Andrea J. Gates as the new Air Force Test Center command chief May 21. Chief Gates is now the principal advisor to the command on matters concerning morale, welfare, discipline, training, fitness and effective utilization of the center's 18,000 military and