July 2, 2007 Runway construction brings traffic changes As work accelerates on the Main Base runway, Edwards motorists may have noticed an increasing number of trucks going to and from the job site entry at Lancaster Boulevard and Shuttle Road. The trucks are being used to transport a smooth flow of critical materials to the job site while maintaining
June 29, 2007 Propulsion Flight provides power to Edwards' birds Every manned jet aircraft flying missions at Edwards, from high-performance fighters to massive cargo planes, have one important thing in common -- their engines are kept running by the 412th Maintenance Squadron's Propulsion Flight. One of the propulsion flight's primary missions is to provide
June 4, 2007 Groundbreaking marks beginning of new runway A groundbreaking ceremony at base operations marked the beginning of a new runway project here June 1. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers will head the $103 million project to replace the majority of runway 22. The 53-year-old runway is deteriorating and poses an increasing foreign object damage threat
May 10, 2007 NASA, Edwards practice for future shuttle landings NASA and Edwards are geared up and prepared for future shuttle landings as they finished a successful space shuttle exercise here Saturday. With Edwards as the secondary landing site for space shuttle landings, more than 150 Edwards personnel and another 150 people from NASA, Fort Irwin, Calif.,
April 26, 2007 Air Force Materiel Command announces top Airman, Senior NCO, NCO, first sergeant Air Force Materiel Command officials announced their top enlisted members Thursday during a ceremony at Eglin AFB, Fla. They were chosen from among 40 nominees recommended by leaders in their chain of command and respective centers as the best Airmen. After reviewing nomination packages and
April 12, 2007 F-35 control room ready for flight tests The 412th Test Management Group completed the range acceptance certification procedure on March 23 for the newest range mission control room built to test the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Unofficial assessments of the certification state the control room is ready to support any mission, said Michelle
March 29, 2007 Testers end high-energy laser tests, dismantle Airborne Laser SIL facility Dismantling of System Integration Laboratory components began recently at the Birk Flight Test Center here following the conclusion of laser testing for the Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser program. The SIL was established to test the operation of the program's high-energy laser at a
March 15, 2007 Edwards 'makes the grade' during ORI Edwards received a satisfactory rating for its Operational Readiness Inspection and an excellent for its Targeted Compliance Inspection, which were both held March 1 through 9. After 9 days of inspection, the Air Force Materiel Command Inspector General gave Edwards a satisfactory mark for its
March 1, 2007 Edwards launches first base-focused video podcast in DoD More than 16 months after Edwards launched its first audio podcast, the base launched video podcasts on its public Web site Wednesday morning. Podcasting is an Internet publishing technology that allows users to subscribe to an automatic feed of audio and video files. The first video posted in the
Feb. 8, 2007 AFFTC IG: Team Edwards ready for ORI "Bring it on." With exactly 23 days to go today before the much-anticipated Air Force Materiel Command Inspector General's Operational Readiness Inspection, Edwards is in full gear. Edwards performed its last Operational Readiness Exercise Jan. 30 to Feb. 2. "Overall, the base did great," said Col.