May 3, 2022 Missionized tire wear testing helping tire designers fail fast to move forward High costs and long lead times can be a deterrent to innovation. The team at the Landing Gear Test Facility, or LGTF, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is trying to lower those barriers for aircraft tire manufacturers.
May 3, 2022 Missionized tire wear testing helping tire designers fail fast to move forward High costs and long lead times can be a deterrent to innovation. The team at the Landing Gear Test Facility, or LGTF, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is trying to lower those barriers for aircraft tire manufacturers.
Oct. 27, 2021 Acquisition professionals recognized by Air Force In October, the Department of the Air Force recognized multiple Hanscom-based teams and individuals for excellence in acquisition, test and evaluation, and software development.
Sept. 10, 2021 Hanscom workshop to highlight software testing To inform the Hanscom-area acquisition workforce about test efforts and capabilities, the 96th Cyberspace Test Group, Detachment 1, located here, will host a virtual test workshop Sept. 29 beginning at 1 p.m.
June 4, 2021 Test workshop brings focus to C4I testing The 96th Cyberspace Test Group, Detachment 1 will host a virtual test workshop June 8 at 1 p.m. The event is part of a quarterly series of workshops offered by the detachment, each with a different theme. This quarter’s theme is Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence systems
Dec. 8, 2020 AEDC’s Space and Missile Test Branch operates a diverse set of test and evaluation capabilities The Space and Missile Test Branch within the Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s Test Division conducts developmental test and evaluation of space and missile systems.“Our mission is to deliver timely, disciplined, defensible and relevant developmental test and evaluation, or T&E, of space and
June 26, 2020 Edwards AFB Flight Test Museum Reaches Next Milestone, Closer to Reality The Air Force Flight Test Museum Foundation achieved an important milestone, June 25, when concrete was poured at the site of the future museum that will be located just outside of the Edwards Air Force Base’s West Gate.
July 9, 2019 History in Two: The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle This month marks the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969. Over a decade prior to this, and nearly four years before President Kennedy’s famous speech, ARDC’s Ballistic Missile Division began research on high thrust space vehicles capable of lunar flights. In January 1957, the ARDC
March 8, 2018 Heads up: 418th FLTS wraps up new pilot display tests The 418th Flight Test Squadron is finishing up tests on a new head-up display for the C-17 Globemaster III this week. The Air Force wants to see if the Replacement Head-Up Display (RHUD) can supplant the legacy display with a newer, more capable version. For the three-week test, the C-17 Integrated
Sept. 20, 2017 AEDC J-5 Rocket Motor Test Facility undergoing complete renovation ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tenn. -- As part of the Hypersonic Test and Evaluation Investment Program, a team of Arnold Engineering Development Complex engineers is heading up the Hypersonic Test Capability Improvement, or HTCI, project which will totally transform the former J-5 Large Rocket Motor Test