March 11, 2013 Speckled Trout reemerges, Team Edwards invited to up close, personal look The Speckled Trout has returned.The 412th Flight Test Squadron's highly-modified KC-135 returns home after a year-long maintenance overhaul at Greenville, Texas. "A/C 63-7980 'Speckled Trout' was in Periotic Depot Maintenance getting a complete exterior refurb, and a partial interior refurb," said
March 11, 2013 Apple App store offering TSP App not sanctioned by TSP A free iPhone App, TSP Funds, currently being offered through the Apple App Store asks Thrift Savings Plan participants for their account login information. This app is not being offered through the TSP and the TSP does not recommend using this application to access your TSP account. Providing this
March 11, 2013 Edwards BX to remain open during sequester Despite sequestration, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service does not foresee any changes to its day-to-day operations."We expect Exchange facilities to be fully functional throughout the sequester," said the Exchange's Chief of Staff Col. Thomas Ockenfels. "We continue to remain flexible as we help
March 8, 2013 From the palm of your hand, find out what's going on at Edwards Members of the Edwards community have a new tool to let them know what's going on around base. The My Military Communities is a mobile application that centralizes all of Edwards' community events, organizations and services right in your pocket for smartphones.MyMC2 lists activities happening on
March 8, 2013 AF cuts aviation support at public events As the U.S. Air Force braces for potential sequester, leadership has cancelled all aviation support to public events for at least the remainder of the fiscal year and is standing down the Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team to save flying hours to support readiness needs. Effective today,
March 8, 2013 Exchange offers pricing parity Whether servicemembers are at home, on exercise or deployed, they can expect to find the same or very similar prices at Army & Air Force Exchange Service facilities worldwide. The practice is known as pricing parity and the prices for products available around the world are established centrally.
March 6, 2013 Test Pilot School modernizes Systems curriculum Training the next generation of flight test professionals is not a responsibility the United States Air Force Test Pilot School takes lightly; and as weapon systems become increasingly complex, the school is modernizing the curriculum to more accurately represent future technological trends of the
March 6, 2013 'Spring' forward! Daylight Savings Time begins March 10 at 2 a.m. Be sure to set your clocks one hour forward!
March 6, 2013 Flight testers work towards compatible growth with commercial spectrum demands In 1963, Don Thomson, an early instrumentation engineer at Edwards was quoted saying, "a good performance and flying qualities engineer isn't worth his salt if he needs more than 50 parameters for a single engine aircraft."Fast forward 50 years and flight test for the single-engine F-35 Lightning II
March 6, 2013 Airfield Management emphasizes importance of runway safety Hazardous Air Traffic Report (HATR) and Controlled Movement Area (CMA) violations are a growing problem for both the Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration."Edwards has been fortunate that no one has been injured or killed and we have not had any aircraft damaged over the years, but being