Edwards AFB News

  • Temporary Verizon wireless, broadband available to Edwards

    Improved Verizon wireless and broadband services are currently available here as part of a three-month Verizon Wireless demonstration. The purpose of the demonstration is to provide Edwards with Verizon's voice and data capabilities and to demonstrate Verizon's broadband wireless services and

  • TEST Kids: AFTC Salutes the Military Child

    Military children are constantly being tested as to how flexible they can be while supporting their parents. They move every few years, have to make new friends, and try to keep up with their favorite activities that may not be at the next duty station. Seven Air Force Test Center children here at

  • Test Ops bids farewell, consolidates into three other units

    Since 2014, efforts have been underway to consolidate the 445th Flight Test Squadron into three other Combined Test Forces, and on May 1, base leadership and 445th FLTS personnel were on hand to finally bid farewell to the historic squadron known as  "Test Operations" during an inactivation ceremony

  • Test Parachutists 'jump' to conclusions

    It's been said there's no good reason to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, but a small cadre of enlisted people here have a very good reason -- saving lives.They don't wear the maroon beret of the Air Force Pararescue; they're members of the 418th Flight Test Squadron's Test Parachutist

  • Test Pilot School class 06A's 'Test Pirates' graduate Saturday

    The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School will graduate Class 06A Saturday, the school's 145th class since its beginning at Wright Field in 1944.Since its conception, the Test Pilot School has added women, engineers and navigators to the cadre of graduates, and Class 06A is no different, as the 12

  • Test Pilot School grads to embark on new horizons

    U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Class 13B stood proudly in the base theater June 13 as Col. Lars Hoffman, USAF TPS commandant, announced them graduates of the prestigious school. Adding to the honor, the school celebrated its up-coming anniversary, which will mark 70 years since the school was