Dec. 5, 2006 Team Edwards exhibits creativity, aquatic skills through Build-a-Boat Competition The Edwards community showed its prowess on the water as people paddled through the Build-a-Boat Competition on Saturday at the Oasis Aquatic Center here.Seven teams participated in the yearly event as they tested their teamwork by building a boat out of the materials provided, said Terry Stegman,
Dec. 5, 2006 Base Airmen visit, thank hospitalized veterans for service Eighteen Edwards Airmen boarded a bus here Tuesday to do something outside the call of their normal duty.It wasn't loading a bomb or maintaining an aircraft; it was the simple act of saying "thank you" to more than 60 hospitalized veterans. The Airmen here visited the West Los Angeles Veterans
Dec. 5, 2006 Newest 'Raptor pilot' sets record at young age Team Edwards and the 411th Flight Test Squadron welcomed its "newest pilot" and his family to Edwards on Tuesday.Reilly Koyl, also known as "Raptor 00," may need a set of telephone books on the seat of the F-22A Raptor to see over the canopy rail, but that did not deter the intrepid aviator from
Dec. 5, 2006 Atlas V solid rocket booster modifications validated As radios crackled with the countdown "five, four, three, two, one ... ignition," members of the Air Force Research Lab at Edwards witnessed the third validation-static firing of Aerojet's Block B Solid Rocket Booster.This 90-second static firing occurred Jan. 27 at the Lab's Edwards Research Site,
Dec. 5, 2006 Team Edwards' school board representation unchanged After a week of deliberation, the Kern County Committee for School Organization voted unanimously, Feb. 1, to deny a request from the Muroc Joint Unified School District to reorganize the seats on the board of trustees.The request was to change the representation from two Edwards seats, two Boron
Dec. 5, 2006 Colonel's focus: teamwork, Edwards' role in AF mission He's back, and this time he's in charge.Col. Arnie Bunch stepped in as commander of the 412th Test Wing on Feb. 2, but Colonel Bunch is no stranger to Edwards, having spent nearly one-third of his Air Force career here. "Of my 21-and-a-half years, I spent seven of them at Edwards," Colonel Bunch
Dec. 5, 2006 Base trains for shuttle recovery More than 300 people teamed up in a joint exercise with NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Saturday.For the several hundred members of the Edwards Space Shuttle Recovery team, this is a duty in addition to their normal responsibilities. The exercise was designed to test the Edwards Space Shuttle
Dec. 5, 2006 JSF decontamination testing draws to close The Joint Strike Fighter Integrated Test Force will pull an F-16 out of a special hangar Saturday, marking the culmination of a series of unique tests here.The F-16 was used as a surrogate for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to test Department of Defense chemical and biological decontamination methods
Dec. 5, 2006 Team shares history of Speckled Trout's AF service Nearly a year ago, Speckled Trout tail number 61-2669 crews were preparing to return to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., from Southwest Asia when they received a phone call from the command post. A deployed Airman, was urgently trying to get home to see his dying daughter.Crews immediately phoned in the