Edwards AFB News

  • Base residents play biggest role in protecting pets from predators

    Coyote and bobcat attacks on family pets continue in base housing and these common desert predators persist in roaming base backyards and side streets with a compulsory purpose-gathering food. Why base housing? Because, base officials say, some residents have taught them where the food is. For the

  • Edwards receives first two F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters

    Two F-35A Lightning II stealth Joint Strike Fighters left their final-assembly site in Fort Worth, Texas and flew nonstop to Edwards Air Force Base, May 17. The arrival is the first in a series, which will eventually increase the Edwards F-35 test fleet to at least eight aircraft.Air Force test

  • From uniform service to civil service, AFFTC chief of staff still serves

    Col. Jack Gregory retired from the U.S. Air Force two years ago, but Mr. Jack Gregory, now a member of the Flight Test Center commander's senior staff, continues to serve the Air Force at Edwards.A man who thrives on challenges, Mr. Gregory, who hung up his uniform, hasn't retired his leadership

  • Free Child Safety Seat Inspection set for May 25

    The Air Force Flight Test Center Ground Safety Office will host a child safety seat Inspection, sponsored by the California Highway Patrol, May 25. The inspection will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Chapel 2 Parking Lot, next to the Edwards Child Development Center on Fitz-Gerald

  • Edwards SARC Recognized by Kern County, State Legislators

    Kimberly Shirley, Edwards Air Force Base's Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, received special recognition at the Kern County National Crime Victims' Rights Awareness Week Program in downtown Bakersfield, Calif., April 21.The program, which was presented by the Kern County Probation Department's

  • Edwards' airman joins elite group of Americans

    Team Edwards' own Master Sgt. Bo Abiodun, 412th Test Wing, F-35 Plans and Scheduling non-commissioned officer-in-charge, has been named one of the United States Junior Chamber 2010 Ten Outstanding Young Americans. "When I was notified by phone that I had been selected as a recipient, I said wow,

  • NASA Deploys Planes, Targets Satellites to Aid in Oil Spill Response

    NASA has mobilized its remote-sensing assets to help assess the spread and impact of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at the request of U.S. disaster response agencies.As part of the national response to the spill, NASA deployed its instrumented research aircraft the Earth