Edwards AFB News

  • How to ski safely, prevent injuries

    Surrounding Edwards, there are five to eight different locations to go skiing within a two hours. Skiing and snowboarding, downhill or alpine is considered a safe sport, accounting for an average of 34 deaths a year, or 0.69 fatalities per million, that is however, providing skiers were have proper

  • Hughes assumes command of 95th AMDS

    Lt. Col. Kathryn Hughes assumes command of the 95th Aerospace Medicine Squadron July 7. Joining Team Edwards from residency at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks-City Base, Texas, Hughes takes over for Lt. Col. Kathleen Jones. Jones is moving on to command the 633rd AMDS at Joint Base

  • Human factors serves to improve Military Airborne Fire Fighting System

    Recently, a team from the 418th Flight Test Squadron and the California Air National Guard from the Channel Islands deployed to Chico, Calif., to evaluate the Military Airborne Fire Fighting System built by the Aero Union Corporation. This system will be used by the California Air National Guard and

  • Huron comes home to test

    Larry Mergili, an L3 Communications site manager attached to the 445th Flight Test Squadron, checks the undercarriage of a C-12C Huron, tail number 31215, after arriving from its aircraft condition inspection from San Angelo, Texas, on June 20. This specific C-12C was out for more than a year due to

  • Hurts one, affects all: Team Edwards invited to hear 'A Marine's Story'

    The Edwards community is invited to hear "A Marine's Story," told by Mary Lauterbach, a courageous mother who tragically lost her daughter in 2007 after a sexual assault. The event will be held August 10 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Base Theater.Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach was brutally murdered in

  • Hypersonic CTF oversight shifts to Arnold EDC

    The Hypersonic Combined Test Force here saw a shift in leadership today, as oversight of the unit was transferred to the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee. According to Maj. Dick Wong, director of the Hypersonic CTF, the change was directed by Maj. Gen.

  • I just want to celebrate

    It's party time! From Thanksgiving to New Year's, the holiday celebrations are happening everywhere. We all think of this time as one of the most joyful seasons, but it's also the time to pay greater attention to safety. During the past two holiday campaign seasons, 75 percent of the fatalities were

  • 'I once caught a fish THIS big!'

    About 200 children and volunteers descended upon Branch Pond Nov. 17 for a Family Fishing Derby.  Keono, 7, poses with his dad, Master Sgt. Paul Smith, 412th Maintenance Logistics Squadron.  Keono caught the largest fish that day, a carp.  Several organizations stepped up to help support the event.

  • Idaho students study Edwards B-52

    Seven students and a professor from the University of Idaho visited several organizations at Edwards on Tuesday for a subsystem evaluation on the B-52 Stratofortress.The University of Idaho students are currently attending a graduate level course, called Advanced Human Factors, and were assigned to