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  • A scope sits below an F135 engine ready to be used by a technician to inspect interior elements of the engine in an Arnold Engineering Development Complex Engine Test Facility test cell at Arnold Air Force Base between test runs. The F135 is undergoing Accelerated Mission Testing in the AEDC facility and is used to power the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett)

    F135 returns to Arnold for testing in Sea Level facility

    The Pratt & Whitney F135 engine has returned to Arnold Engineering Development Complex for another round of testing, with a fresh engine component the focus of the latest efforts.The F135, which powers the F-35 Lightning II aircraft, is currently undergoing testing in one of the Sea Level Test Cells at Arnold. Since late June, a newly-designed fan
  • This Pratt & Whitney F100 engine, the powerplant for the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon, underwent sea level testing in Arnold Engineering Development Center’s Propulsion Development Test Cell SL-2 in 2003. (AEDC photo)

    Half-century of AEDC support for F100 engine approaches

    When the F100 engine was tested at Arnold Engineering Development Complex near the end of the 1960s, it marked the beginning of what would become a longstanding relationship.Throughout the subsequent 50 years, variants of the F100, the propulsion unit used to power the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon, would undergo thousands of hours of testing
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