AFMC Command News

  • WWII pilot finally receives Distinguished Flying Cross

    It was Sept. 26, 1944, and 1st. Lt. Ralph Davis, who'd just finished a run hauling gasoline in his B-24 "Southern Clipper", thought he might relax on the way home. Only this trip turned out to be a little more demanding than the usual gas run. A pilot with the 467th Bombardment Group, based at

  • Photos of genocide survivors earn Airman top award

    There is another side to the Air Force, far beyond the horizon that is peppered with aircraft defending the nation's skies. Tucked within neatly divided cubicles on bases all over the world are individuals responsible for maintaining and processing vital information and, in some cases, disseminating

  • Program helps information branch improve fitness

    Information Technology Directorate personnel are putting the "IT" in fitness at Tinker Air Force Base. In groups and as individuals, they are walking, working out in the gym or participating in structured fitness activities with encouragement from directorate and base leadership to get involved in

  • Manufacturing Technology program reduces B-2 maintenance time

    Engineers from the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, working with the B-2 Systems Group and material processing experts, solved a critical material scale-up problem that directly affected the operational maintainability, and therefore combat availability, of the Air Force's B-2 bomber fleet.

  • Global Hawk 'sets sail' from Edwards

    A Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle known as N-1 took off from Edwards' main runway March 27 on a one-way mission to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The N-1, an RQ-4A Global Hawk - one of two acquired by the U.S. Navy through the Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration Program - is the first of

  • C-130s stage at Kirtland AFB to answer firefighting call

    The rancher fearing for his livestock or the people living in developed areas along the boundary of a fire probably don't realize the massive effort and the number of personnel supporting the C-130 they see dropping salvation from the sky, but cooperation among military members and civilians can

  • Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 reaches 3,000-run milestone

    March 15 marked an important milestone for one of Arnold Engineering Development Center's world-unique test assets. The Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9, located at AEDC's White Oak near Silver Spring, Md., completed its 3,000th test run as the facility approaches 30 years of operation. The first test,

  • Uniformed Services benefit from flight nurse course

    They represent the changing face of military training, medical professionals such as U.S. Public Health Service officer Charles McGee and Navy Lieutenant Shawn Passons, who have come here as part of a U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine initiative. Together with classmates from the Air Force

  • DoD selects five AFMC bases for health and safety initiative

    The Air Force isn’t waiting for the Memorial Day weekend start of the “101 Critical Days of Summer” to emphasize health and safety to its work force. Nine Air Force bases are scheduled to participate in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Program this year. Five

  • General shares vision of Air Force Chaplain Service

    There are 2,200 chaplains and enlisted support people from the active and Air Reserve components serving a unique mission in today's Air Force. Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Charles Baldwin, Air Force Chaplain Service chief, visited Edwards March 16 as part of a nationwide tour of five bases in five days.

  • Information Technology Conference seeks presenters

    The Air Force Information Technology Conference staff recently announced its call for seminar papers, an invitation for government and industry experts to participate as presenters at the upcoming technology event. The AFITC is designed as a forum for the exchange of information between industry and

  • Collaboration improves solar storm forecasting

    A recently established partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force Weather Agency seeks to reduce the impact of space environmental effects on Department of Defense operational assets through enhanced forecasting of violent solar storms. Modern military operations have

  • AEDC adapts propulsion technology for wind tunnel tests

    A recent series of successful F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aerodynamic tests in Arnold Engineering Development Center's 16-foot transonic wind tunnel (16T) demonstrated the center's ability to adapt propulsion test technologies for use in wind tunnel tests. "We developed and implemented

  • F118 engine continues altitude performance testing at AEDC

    Arnold Engineering Development Center is currently testing the F118-100 General Electric engine, power plant for the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, in the center's Engine Test Facility J-1 Test Cell. This particular test is part of GE's Service Life Extension Program (SLEP), which is under the Air