July 9, 2007 412th MXS brings heavy metal to Edwards aircraft When a metal portion of an aircraft breaks, whether it is nuts, bolts or sheets of aluminum, it requires the expertise of a special shop to fix it. The sheet metal shop, an element of the 412th Maintenance Squadron, is comprised of approximately 25 people who turn pieces of metal into integral parts
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 26, 2007 ORE focuses on convoy operations, deployment line processing Team Edwards performed its Operational Readiness Exercise June 18 through 21. This was Edwards' first ORE since the Operational Readiness Inspection in March."Our primary focus is successfully passing the Phase I retest in July," said Lt. Col. Greg Ahlquist, the installation Inspector General. "We
June 26, 2007 Atlantis successfully touches down at Edwards Space Shuttle Atlantis safely returned to Earth when it landed at Edwards on June 22, which concluded STS-117's assembly mission to the International Space Station. Because of unfavorable weather, the orbiter landed at Edwards, its secondary landing site, instead of its primary landing site at